The Ministry of Commerce has taken anti-dumping measures against optical fiber preforms imported from Japan and the United States

Recently, the Ministry of Commerce issued Announcement No.
15 of 2015, which initially determined that imported optical fiber preforms originating in Japan and the United States were dumped and would take temporary anti-dumping measures
.

In this anti-dumping investigation of optical fiber preforms, according to the announcement, starting from May 21, 2015, when importing optical fiber preforms from the above-mentioned origins, the importer shall provide the corresponding bond
to the Customs of the People's Republic of China in accordance with the deposit ratio of each company determined by this preliminary decision.

Specifically, the margin ratio was 8.
9% for Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.
, Ltd.
, 7.
8% for Sumitomo Electric Co.
, Ltd.
, 8.
3% for Fujikura Co.
, Ltd
.
, 8.
3% for Furukawa Electric Co.
, Ltd.
, 39% for Corning Corporation, and 16.
9% for OFS-Feite LLC.

The announcement also said that the ruling is only a preliminary ruling, and all interested parties can submit written comments and attach relevant evidence
to the investigating authority within 20 days from the date of the announcement.
If evidence is not submitted within the prescribed time limit required by the questionnaire (including supplementary questionnaire) and the announcement, the investigating authority will not consider
it due to the limitation of the investigation time.

Prior to this, the Ministry of Commerce had initiated anti-dumping investigations on imported non-dispersive single-mode optical fibers originating in the United States, Japan, South Korea and the European Union in 2003 and 2010, and finally imposed anti-dumping duties on optical fiber manufacturers in the above regions.

It is worth noting that China has repeatedly imposed anti-dumping duties on imported optical fiber products, and the earliest batch of collection period is about to expire, when there will be international optical fiber products into the Chinese market, making the domestic optical fiber industry market competition more fierce, including the optical fiber and cable manufacturing enterprises that survived the anti-dumping of optical rods, some optical fiber enterprises will face the fate
of being eliminated again.

The Ministry of Commerce has adopted temporary anti-dumping measures for imported optical fiber preforms, and the most direct impact is to further increase the market share of domestic optical rods, and can also regulate the domestic optical fiber and cable market
.

From the perspective of the optical fiber and cable industry chain, optical fiber preforms are technology-intensive, high value-added products, which are the core of the industry, accounting for 70% of the profits of optical fiber and cable products, and their production technology is initially mainly in the hands
of foreign producers such as Japan and the United States.
However, after more than 20 years of development, Changfei, Hengtong, Zhongtian Technology and other national light rod manufacturing enterprises through independent research and development and through joint ventures or cooperation with foreign enterprises have invested a lot of money to purchase new equipment and expand production capacity, so that domestic light bar production capacity and output continue to grow, and market share gradually increases
.

Despite this, domestic optical fiber preforms still cannot fully meet the needs of a large number of domestic optical fiber and cable manufacturing enterprises, leaving market space
for imported optical fiber preforms.
According to public information, from 2010 to 2013, the demand for light rods in China increased from 2849 tons to 6053 tons, but the market share of imported light rods fell from 67.
45% to 41.
44%.

The continuous decline in market share has made Japan, the United States and other optical rod manufacturers gradually adjust their market strategies, export a large number of optical rod products to China at low prices, so that the domestic optical rod production capacity can not be fully utilized, and the profit margin and investment return of the light rod are also obviously at a low level
.
The production and operation of domestic optical fiber preforms have been affected by imported products
.