Additional duties of up to 58.8%

[edwardsmedia]

additional duties of up to 58.8% on the price of all Chinese crockery !!!!

If you haven't seen it yet, take a look, What do you think?

http://marketing.xpres.co.uk/news/our-p ... customers/

[bms]

additional duties of up to 58.8% on the price of all Chinese crockery !!!!

If you haven't seen it yet, take a look, What do you think?

http://marketing.xpres.co.uk/news/our-p ... customers/

This was raised and discussed in November as well...
http://www.dyesubforum.co.uk/vbforum/sh ... ation-Mugs

[pisquee]

good to have a specific topic on the subject though, rather than been hidden in a thread about something else.

If the additional tax on ceramics coming out of China into the EU is to help out local producers, how likely is it that the import duty will be also be added to other non-EU countries as well at some point?

Are there any local producers in UK, or EU, who make sublimation mugs anymore? We do have some old stock left of mugs which were UK made, but they definitely weren't dishwasher safe - the coating would peel off quite quickly once it went in a dishwasher!

Would love to be able to say that our product was made in UK, not just printed in UK.

[Andrew]

It's the old locking the stable door scenario. Manufacturers are already dead and buried in the UK so who exactly is this tax protecting? Most decent Chinese suppliers will be around the 26% increase hopefully.

I believe most of Xpres' stock comes from Thailand anyway so it's easy for them to try and look good. The main manufacturer in Thailand can hold it's own on pricing against China and I know of a very large supplier in India with a good reputation that covers subli etc. Korea is another with a ceramics industry that competes so there are still plenty of routes to keep ceramic manufacturing in the EU non existent when it comes to volume. I just don't understand the massive tax added on for China as it does nothing to help local industry. Just creates more dead work in have to find new suppliers or renegotiate pricing.

[RogerC]

This thread makes me wonder just who is to blame for this sort of 'tariff' being required in the first place. For decades manufacturers in the West (first world) have been looking at ways to maximise profits hence (to name but two) the inexorable rise of industry in China and the telephone support services being farmed out to India. Both countries have exceptionally low labour/production costs compared to UK/Europe. However by exporting these services/manufacturing bases the 'captains of industry' have been responsible for the loss of millions of jobs in the UK/Europe whilst chasing profits for shareholders. Eventually this will turn around and bite them in the backside. It should be self evident that if you continue to run down the industrial base of a country there will be fewer 'employees' in that country with disposable incomes therefore less people to buy your products.

In essence it will take time but eventually the tables will turn and it is us along with Europe that will become 'third world' countries as China and India etc grow ever stronger industrially whilst industry in the West slides inexorably into oblivion . The 'West' will be merely a consumer of 'Asian' product having had it's industrial base sacrificed on the altar of 'Corporate profit'........for 'profit' read 'greed'.

[Ravster]

Andrew,

Would you mind sharing details of the India supplier you are talking about. we run a small setup in India and am looking for reliable suppliers in that region.

thx,
Ravster

[Andrew]

This was a while ago but think it was Data something. Spoke to them a few times at trade shows. Might be at the NEC Spring Fair again shortly.

[Andrew]

Datahousewares.net . It looks like they have a UK based now but stem from India. Doesn't show much on their website but when I spoke to them the range they had was offered with sublimation coating. This was several years ago the chat took place so might have changed.