China's ceramic exports to India doubled year after year under anti-dumping investigations

The data submitted by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of India to the Indian Parliament on December 21, 2011 shows that its subordinate anti-dumping and joint taxation administration has cumulatively initiated 149 anti-dumping investigations to China, accounting for about 55% of the total number of anti-dumping cases in India. The data also shows that 77 of the anti-dumping cases currently being processed involve China.

According to another source, India has listed China as the largest anti-dumping target country. So far, India has still not recognized the status of China’s market economy and Chinese companies that received anti-dumping investigations have suffered a lot.

In the past, India had also initiated anti-dumping investigations against Chinese companies, but several companies such as Mona Lisa Ceramics actively cooperated with the investigation and obtained tariff quotas. “And this year's concessions will expire, and we can only look at the situation in 2012. Mr. Huo Rongzheng, vice chairman of Mona Lisa Ceramics, said, "There will be many unknown markets waiting to be developed next year."

The Nanhai District Customs of Foshan City recently released the export data of Nanhai Taoci from January to November 2011.

The data shows that this year's export growth of South China Sea ceramics enterprises to the EU, ASEAN and other markets has slowed down, and exports to India have doubled year after year. India has become the largest market for Nanhai ceramic exports in November.

According to statistics, the ceramic production and consumption in India from 2005 to 2010 showed an increasing trend. In 2010, the country's ceramic production volume was 550 million square meters, an increase of 12.2% compared to 2009; while its consumption and production in 2010 were basically the same, at 557 million square meters, an increase of 12.8% from 2009.

From the growth trend of ceramics annual production in recent years and the market demand for new technologies and new equipment, India is closely following the development of Chinese ceramics and is a fast-growing ceramic producing area in Asia.

It is understood that India's current share of high-end ceramic products is not high, accounting for about 20% to 30% of the market, and the company's scale is small.

The Indian market was dominated by tiles until 2010. It was not until March and April 2010 that it turned to polished tiles. Mona Lisa Ceramics also used traditional 600×600 (mm) polished tiles. Export to India.

In addition to India, Brazil is also its main export market.

Huo Rongzhen revealed that the most important thing next year is to stabilize the two export markets of India and Brazil.