Branded Products Imported from China

China has several top branded products which includes the following:
Refrigerators:
Haier, Haier Group Co, Ltd,

Washing Machines:
Little Swan, Wuxi Little Swan Co Ltd

Household Air-Conditioners:
Midea, Guangdong Midea Group Co, Ltd

Microwave Ovens:
Glanz, Guangdond Glanz Enterprise Group Co Ltd

Colour Televisions:
TCL, TCL Group Co Ltd

Personal Computers: Legend,
Legend (Beijing) Co Ltd

Motorcycles: Jialing,
Jialing Industries Co Ltd (Group)

Film: Lucky,
Lucky Film Group Co Ltd

Gourmet Powder:
Lotus, Henan Lotus Gourmet Powder Group Co Ltd

Shirts: Youngor,
Youngor Group Co Ltd


China is also known for importing shoes, unfortunately the majority of the shoes imported from China are name brands that have been out sourced for manufacturing. Such as Nike, Timberland, Puma

China's Imports and Exports

Zinc, nickel, lumber, mining & oil equipment lead China's fastest-growing exports to U.S. while tobacco, corn & precious metals are popular American imports in China.


China exported US$287.8 billion worth of merchandise to the United States in 2006, up 18.2% from 2005 and up an impressive 130% in just 4 years. America is the number one trading partner for China's exports.


Chinese imports from the U.S. rose 31.7% to $55.2 billion in 2006 and up an even more impressive 150% since 2002.

In terms of the merchandise flow between the two countries, America’s trade deficit with China was $232.5 billion in 2006, up 125% from 2002. The U.S. trade deficit with China increased 15.4% in 2006 – significantly down from the 24.5% deficit increase in 2005 from the year earlier.

China Exports to U.S.
Of the $287.8 billion in American imports from China in 2006, the following product categories had the highest values.
Computer accessories, peripherals and parts …US$28.9 billion (10.1% of China to U.S. exports, up 12.4% from 2005)
Miscellaneous household goods (e.g. clocks) … $26.5 billion (9.2%, up 17.2%)
Toys & sporting goods (e.g. bicycles) … $22.2 billion (7.7%, up 10.2%)
Computers … $17.4 billion (6%, up 20.2%)
Non-cotton household furnishings & clothing … $14.6 billion (5.1%, up 11.3%)
Video equipment (e.g. DVD players) … $14.5 billion (5.0%, up 34.9%)
Household furniture … $13.2 billion (4.6%, up 14.3%)
Footwear ... $10.7 billion (3.7%, up 11.1%)
Cotton household furnishings & clothing … $9.9 billion (3.4%, up 29.6%)
Telecommunications equipment … $8.3 billion (3.0%, up 23.7%)
Fastest-Growing Chinese Exports to U.S.

American imports from China in 2006 with the highest percentage sales increases from 2005.
Zinc … US$8.6 million (up 616% from 2005)
Nickel … $25.9 million (up 273%)
Lumber … $74.7 million (up 213%)
Specialized mining & oil processing equipment … $96.6 million (up 188%)
Oil field drilling equipment & platforms … $1.6 billion (up 182%)
China Imports from U.S.

Of the $55.2 billion in American exports to China in 2006, the following product categories had the highest values.
Semi-conductors … US$5.9 billion (10.6% of China from U.S. imports, up 74.7% from 2005)
Civilian aircraft … $5.3 billion (9.6%, up 39.7%)
Soybeans … $2.5 billion (4.6%, up 12.5%)
Plastics …. $2.2 billion (3.9%, up 18.8%)
Raw cotton … $2.1 billion (3.7%, up 47%)
Industrial machines … $1.97 billion (3.6%, up 29%)
Copper … $1.86 billion (3.4%, up 99.7%)
Computer accessories … $1.82 billion (3.3%, up 27.5%)
Aluminum … $1.7 billion (3.1%, up 90.3%)
Steelmaking material … $1.69 billion (3.1%, up 11.9%)
Fastest-Growing Chinese Imports from U.S.

American exports to China in 2006 with the highest percentage sales increases from 2005.
Unmanufactured tobacco … US$61.4 million (up 3127% from 2005)
Corn … $22.6 million (up 2963%)
Oilseeds & food oils … $60.7 million (up 970%)
Precious metals … $305 million (up 205.2%)
Railway transportation equipment … $220 million (up 146%)

Political, Legal and Regulatory Environments

China once had a socialist, planned economy where the government (one party) controlled and owned all the means and methods of production. It is now near a market economy after privatization of most of the state owned enterprises and opening up to western countries. For example, peasants now have their own farms; foreign businesses are allowed to set up in China and so on.
China's spectacular economic growth-averaging 8% or more annually over the past two decades-has produced an impressive increase in the standard of living for hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens. At the same time, this economic development has had severe ramifications for the natural environment. There has been a dramatic increase in the demand for natural resources of all kinds, including water, land and energy. Forest resources have been depleted, triggering a range of devastating secondary impacts such as desertification, flooding and species loss.
Poorly regulated industrial and household emissions and waste have caused levels of water and air pollution to skyrocket. China's development and environment practices have also made the country one of the world's leading contributors to regional and global environmental problems, including acid rain, ozone depletion, global climate change, and biodiversity loss.

Environmental degradation and pollution in China also pose challenges well beyond
those to the natural environment. The ramifications for the social and economic welfare of the Chinese people are substantial. Public health problems, mass migration, forced resettlement, and social unrest are all the consequence of a failure to integrate environmental considerations into development efforts effectively.

Still, much remains to be done. The particular mix of environmental challenges and weak policy responses means that the Chinese people cannot yet claim several basic rights: the right to breathe clean air, to access clean water, to participate in the decision-making process on industrial development or public works projects that affect their livelihood, and to secure justice when these rights are violated.
Without greater attention and commitment from the center, China's environment is likely to continue to deteriorate throughout much of the country, causing further social and economic distress domestically and levying even greater costs on the environmental future of the rest of the world.

China's overwhelming reliance on coal for its energy needs [2] has made its air quality among the worst in the world. In 2000, China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) tested the air quality in more than 300 Chinese cities, and found that almost two-thirds failed to achieve standards set by the World Health Organization for acceptable levels of total suspended particulates, which are the primary culprit in respiratory and pulmonary disease. Acid rain, resulting from sulfur dioxide emissions from coal burning, also affects over one-fourth of China's land, including one-third of its farm land, damaging crops and fisheries throughout affected provinces.

China's forest resources also rank among the lowest in the world. Demand for furniture, chopsticks, and paper has driven an increasingly profitable but environmentally devastating illegal logging trade. By the mid-1990s, half of China's forest bureaus reported that trees were being felled at an unsustainable rate, and twenty percent had already exhausted their reserves. China's Sichuan province-home to the famed pandas-now possesses less than one-tenth of its original forests. Even the worst examples of deforestation in the United States, such as the transformation of Vermont from 70% forest to 30% forest over the past century, are mild in comparison to China's experience. Loss of biodiversity, climatic change, and soil erosion are all on the rise as a result.

Enhancing the Legal System
China's legal system has long been criticized for its lack of transparency, ill-defined laws, weak enforcement capacity, and poorly trained lawyers and judges. Over the past decade, however, the government has made great strides on the legislative side, passing upwards of 25 environmental protection laws and more than 100 administrative regulations, in addition to hundreds of environmental standards. While the quality of some of these laws could be improved, China's environmental law-makers have demonstrated increasing sophistication in their understanding of how to negotiate and draft a technically sound and politically viable law. They also have taken to publishing some draft laws and regulations on their websites to invite public comment, an important improvement in the transparency of China's legal system. Still, there are numerous weaknesses within the judicial system, including the poor or complete lack of training of lawyers and judges, the intervention of external political or economic factors into the judicial decision-making process, and the difficulty of enforcing poorly written laws.

Implications for China and the United States The rapidity and magnitude of the changes that are taking place in China and the complex way in which these changes are interacting and transforming the country leave both the Chinese leadership and the international community searching for an understanding of what China might look like over the next decade or two. While the environment has certainly moved onto the leadership's agenda over the past decade, it remains far below center priorities such as economic development, maintaining social stability, and enhancing military capabilities.


For the United States, cooperating with Chinese actors on environmental protection offers the opportunity not only to serve U.S. environmental interests but also to pursue top priorities in the Sino-American relationship: the advancement of human rights and democracy, the development of a more transparent legal system, and greater access to the Chinese market for U.S. goods and services. It is an especially opportune time to pursue such goals given the overall relatively positive state of U.S. relations with China.

A view of China

China

TOTAL AREA 9,596,960 sq km -or- 3,704,427 sq mi

POPULATION (2005 AD) 1,302,056,200+

CAPITAL Beijing (Peking)

BIGGEST CITIES POPULATION (2003)

Shanghai: 12.8 million+ Beijing: 10.8 million+ Tianjin: 9.1 million+ Hong Kong: 6.8 million+ Wuhan: 5.1 million+ Shenyang: 4.8 million+ Chongqing: 4.6 million+ Guangzhou: 3.8 million+

The People's Republic of China (PRC), the third-largest country in the world and the largest nation in Asia

LANGUAGE Officially, Mandarin Chinese

First President of China, Yuan Shihkai, who was elected in 1912 by the members of China's first National Assembly in Nanjing.

China is bordered on the N by Mongolia (Mongolian People's Republic–MPR) and Russia; on the NE by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK); on the E by the Yellow and the East China seas; along the southern border are Hong Kong, Macau, the South China Sea, the Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam, and Laos; on the SW by Myanmar, India, Bhutan, and Nepal; on the W by India, Jammu and Kashmir (disputed areas), Pakistan (west of the Karakoram Pass), and Afghanistan; and on the NW by Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakstan. China's total boundary length, including the coastline (14,500 km/9,010 mi) is 36,647 km (22,771 mi).

Population of more than one billion accounts for 23 per cent of the world human population. China is the world's oldest continuous civilization and is playing a more and more important role in the world economy and political affairs.

China's population is unevenly distributed, the inland areas more sparsely populated and coastal provinces densely populated.

Terrain and vegetation vary greatly in China. Mountains, hills, and highlands cover about 66 percent of the nation's territory, impeding communication and leaving limited level land for agriculture.

Natural resources:

coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, mercury, tin, tungsten, antimony, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, uranium, hydropower potential (world's largest)

THE USA - CHINA WTO AGREEMENT:

Agriculture

The USA - China trade deal signed in 1999 provides increased access for US exports across a broad range of commodities and elimination of barriers.

Commitments include: Significant cuts in tariffs that were to be completed by January 2004.

Overall average for agricultural products will be 17 per cent and for US priority products 14.5 percent.

ILEST2001 China became a WTO member on December 11

2004 100 % foreign-ownership in tourist facilities –hotels

2005 Restrictions lifted for distribution of imported goods

2006 Most tariff cuts complete Geographical restrictions on cellular phones lifted

2007 Most of the insurance market will be open;
Most banking restrictions lifted; Most quotas removed;
Expect full implementation of the USA - China trade agreement to occur

2007 Tariffs reduced to 10% in the automobile sector

2009 USA textile safeguards removed

2013 End date for US Congress protection against "rapid increases in imports."

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