Una breve mirada a China (RPC) desde el Rio de la Plata Recortes de varias fuentes de Internet (Año II) JUNIO-05 Preparado por MESA CHINA
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Sin re-valuación aun…a pesar que todos lo piden. Usa y China siguen negociando sobre textiles No solo textiles-Calzado también. China -Japan relations: not at ease
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Sin re-valuación aun…a pesar que todos lo piden. EE.UU. prevé que el yuan se revaluará en cinco meses
El secretario del Tesoro de Estados Unidos, John Snow, pronosticó que Pekín va a relajar el control sobre el yuan dentro de los próximos cinco meses, incluso en momentos en que el Congreso estadounidense amenaza con imponer sanciones a China si su gobierno no permite que su moneda se fortalezca frente al dólar. Snow dijo en una sesión del comité bancario del Senado estadounidense creer que China haría el cambio esperado en el sistema cambiario para mediados de octubre, fecha en la que el Tesoro entrega al Congreso su próximo informe sobre la manipulación cambiaria en el mundo. "Estoy seguro de que antes de que terminemos nuestro próximo informe se habrán tomado algunas de las medidas que estamos pidiendo". Pero agregó que podría tener que tragarse sus palabras.Snow enfatizó que no cree que China debería liberalizar inmediatamente el yuan, que ahora mantiene un cambio fijo de 8,28 yuanes por dólar, lo que según muchos empresarios y políticos coloca a las compañías chinas en una posición injusta de ventaja. Según Snow, China tampoco debería limitarse a revaluar el yuan y mantener un cambio fijo, sino permitir que fluctúe más libremente en respuesta a las fuerzas del mercado. (La Nación) China's exports grew faster than its imports for a seventh month, almost doubling a trade surplus that has prompted the U.S. and the European Union to call for a stronger Chinese currency and curbs on textile shipments. Exports rose 30 percent from a year earlier to $58.4 billion in May and imports increased 15 percent to $49.4 billion, the Beijing-based customs bureau said today on its Web site. The surplus rose to $8.99 billion from $4.59 billion in April.The U.S. government is pressing China to loosen its currency's fixed link of 8.3 to the dollar, blaming cheap imports from China for the loss of 1.1 million American jobs in the past three years. China has relied on exports to sustain growth in the world's fastest-growing major economy as it cools investment in the auto, steel and real estate industries.``This will keep the yuan in the headlines,'' said Tim Condon, chief Asia economist at ING Bank in Singapore. ``There
is nothing China can do that would not be very damaging to the economy'' to cut the surplus in the short-term, he said.The U.S. and the EU are threatening to impose quotas on imports of some Chinese textiles after shipments soared when a decades-old global quota system ended on Jan. 1. (Bloomberg)
Sin re-valuación aun…a pesar que todos lo piden La empresa de
telecomunicaciones Huawei firmó un acuerdo con las cooperativas telefónicas para instalar una fábrica en City Bell, provincia de Buenos Aires. La empresa aportará un millón de dólares: la mitad será en maquinaria y el resto, en efectivo, para empezar el emprendimiento, que será operado por las cooperativas agrupadas en Fecotel y Fecosur. "Queremos estar operativos en octubre", dijo Antonio Roncoroni, presidente de Fecosur y de Comarcoop, la sociedad anónima que conformaron unas 280 cooperativas telefónicasHuawei aportará el dinero y la tecnología para ensamblar localmente equipos que usarán tecnología CDMA, en la frecuencia de 450 megahertz. La primera prueba de esta tecnología en América latina se hizo este fin de semana en El Chaltén .La fábrica se montará en un predio del Batallón 601 del Ejército Argentino, y en una primera etapa empleará a 50 personas. Allí se ensamblarán dos modelos de teléfonos CDMA 450, desarrollados por Huawei. El acuerdo es a 36 meses; luego, Huawei podrá hacer efectiva una opción para quedarse con el 35% de la fábrica. Los equipos que se van a ensamblar en City Bell son similares a cualquier teléfono fijo, sólo que tienen una antena. Huawei es uno de los mayores fabricantes de esta tecnología en el mundo; tiene el 67% del mercado y en los últimos dos años creció al doble: pasó de facturar US$ 2500 millones en 2003 a 5580 millones el último año (La Nación)
Usa y China siguen negociando sobre textiles
China and the United States have discussed settling their feud over U.S. moves to limit China's surging garment exports, amid growing Chinese concern that uncertainty over Washington's stance is deterring new business. Trade officials in Washington and Beijing used a video link to discuss proposed U.S. limits on seven categories of textile and garment exports from China. The two sides' video encounter seems anticlimactic after the compromise that the European Union trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, and the Chinese commerce minister, Bo Xilai, signed in Shanghai. That deal limits Chinese garment export growth to Europe by 8 percent to 12.5 percent a year until 2007. The United States is likely to ultimately accept a deal like the one signed between China and the Europe(International Herald Tribune).
Where is the way out for Chinese textile? In light of the EU and US' limits on Chinese textiles the Chinese government adopts a proactive attitude and reached a consensus with the EU on the textile issue. Among Chinese textile export companies many are engaged in Original Equipment Manufacture (OEM), which means their products, once finished, are exported bearing a certain EU and US name. With the brand the profits increase several times and no trace of the Chinese textile firm remain second round of talks with the US is under intense preparation. However the situation may develop Chinese textile firms must answer these questions - how to secure a footing in the midst of the increasingly fierce global industrial competition? After experiencing one trade friction after another the Chinese textile companies have waken to the fact and are committing themselves to industrial upgrading, raising production efficiency as well as the development and manufacturing of products of high added
value. To shake off the passive situation of being controlled by others the Chinese textile firms, apart from insisting on price advantage, should do more to create own brands, establish brand advantage and realize the transition from OEM to independently owned brands. These companies are divided into two kinds. The first set up their plants in the targeted market, making it easy to surmount any trade barriers the EU and US may lay down. The second invest in a third country which produces raw material and where labor is cheap. Making use of the advantage in some countries where labor is even cheaper than in China and trade barriers laid down by the US and EU are fewer, they develop China's textile industry China entered in 2004 the fourth year in the implementation of its brand-building strategy and selection of famous products .In the four years, 479 enterprises had developed 547 famous products, which fall into 95 categories. China entered in 2004 the fourth year in the implementation of its brand-building strategy and selection of famous products ..In the four years, 479 enterprises had developed 547 famous products, which fall into 95 categories.( Peoples Daily) Many Chinese textile firms have enjoyed better business since China agreed with the EU to limit exports, domestic media have reported, attributing the rise to the removal of uncertainty. China has agreed to limit annual growth in exports of various categories of textiles to the EU to between eight and 12.5 per cent.—(APP). China's textile exporters will need to apply for licenses to sell some products overseas as the government tries to restrict growth of exports.(NSTP)
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Footwear industry experts at a forum in Beijing urged the EU to solve trade frictions with Chinese manufacturers through talks rather than legal means. The EU, China's second largest market for its shoes, launched a dumping investigation against two categories of labor safety shoes originating from China at the end of last month. It claimed that after the quota system on the shoe trade was eliminated on January 1 this year, its imports of six categories of footwear from China soared 681 percent year-onyear in the first four months of 2005. Fearing a series of anti-dumping charges on more categories of footwear, the government and industrial associations have called on enterprises involved to respond, but this might bring about frictions with other trading partners if they swarm to their markets. Over 10 major Chinese labor safety shoe manufacturers reached an agreement late last month to respond to the dumping charges together.(China Org.cn)
China -Japan relations: not at ease
Sixty years on from the surrender of Japanese invaders, the nightmare of cruelty and devastation they inflicted on China still lingers. China fought Japan from September 18, 1931 to August 15, 1945. This 14-year-long war caused 35 million casualties – onetenth of the then Chinese population – and material losses of US $600 billion. As the main Eastern battlefield of World War II, China’s losses were the heaviest of all countries in the region. Atrocities inflicted on the Chinese people by the Japanese Fascists were no less shocking than those suffered by Jews at the hands of the Nazis.(China Today)
Two white papers from Japan have added a chill to the current low in China-Japan relations, said an article by China Daily.- The white paper is saying Japan needs to respond to China's increased defense budget. The abstract of the paper, which is to be officially announced in early August, said Japan should be alert to the continuous increase in China's military budget, indicative of a military modernization drive, to which Japan must adopt an active defensive military strategy. The paper points out that China's military spending outgrows its GDP, at over 10 percent for 17 consecutive years The document also reminds the Japanese Government to be attentive to the movement of China's naval vessels.( China Daily) Chinese experts have discovered new evidence of the Japanese wartime atrocity in China -- a toxic gas experiment plant in north China's Inner Mongolia. "The site covers more than 110 square kilometers, extending nine kilometers from east to west and 13 kilometers from north to south,"-. "Pits big and small are seen on the grassland even today." The Inner Mongolia-based researcher said the Japanese soldiers used to conduct biological tests here during the World War II, by blasting gas bombs in pits buried with live human beings and animals.(China Daily) The China-Japan relations must be handled in the spirit of "taking history as a mirror and looking toward future".(China Daily) VARIOS FedEx Corp. the world's top air express shipper, will sign an agreement in early August to establish its first transport hub in China (Yahoo news) US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will make a trip to China, South Korea and Japan, the State Department said amid growing US anxiety over stalled multilateral talks to end the North Korean nuclear crisis (Yahoo news). Oman newspaper Al Watan published a thought-provoking, humorous article entitled "Condoleezza's Smiles". The article compares Rice's smile and Mona Lisa Smile portrayed by Da Vanci and comes to an entirely different conclusion. In the Arabic language, Rice's name "Condoleezza" is pronounced as "Condolisa", the last two syllables "lisa" is written and pronounced entirely the same as "lisa" in "Mona Lisa". Therefore, whenever the name "Condoleezza" is mentioned, the Arabs humorously pronounced it casually as "Mona Lisa", (Peoples Daily) Japan´s car-maker Honda Motor Co Friday started to ship its made-in-China cars to Europe with Germany as the first destination. This is the first time cars have been exported from China to Europe. Honda plans to export 10,000 units of the Jazz hatchback to Europe this year. The Jazz will also be shipped to Italy at the end of this year, Honda said.
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