Hardware knife and scissors industry exposed edge

Hardware cutters and scissors are the traditional industries of Yangjiang, Guangdong Province. With the recent establishment of the “Chinese Kitchen Knife Center”, “China Scissors Center” and “Chinese Sword Center”, Yangjiang has also become China’s “Knife and Shear Capital”. However, behind these auras and reputations, there has been a battle of trade without gun smoke.

In recent years, due to the strong demand in the international market, the Yangjiang hardware and knives and scissors industry has developed rapidly. The city has a total of more than 1400 hardware and knives and scissors production enterprises, production accounts for about 60% of the country's total exports accounted for 80% of the country's The product range has also expanded from a single knife-and-cut product in the past to stainless steel kitchen utensils, plastic kitchen utensils and other products, gradually forming a development trend of industry diversification, product diversification, and export expansion. Products enjoy a high level both at home and abroad. Reputation.

EU Early Warning and Prosecutorial Linkage Since 2005, in the early warning notice issued by the EU on China's exports of food-contact materials and their products, Yangjiang has become a hard-hit area. The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection specifically called on the Chinese ambassador to the European Union on the issue of safety and health issues related to China’s export of EU- and food-contact products. The Chinese ambassador to the European Union claimed that if the Chinese side does not take effective measures to ensure the food contact materials and their products exported to the EU The safety and health will take further measures for such products in China, and at the same time it proposes to visit China to inspect the production of hardware and plastic products. Once the EU “takes further measures”, it means that the products produced by more than 1400 metal and plastic products companies in Yangjiang City will be rejected outside the gates of the European Union. The pillar industries in Yangjiang will undoubtedly be hit hard, with an annual total of US$ 600 million in exports. It will shrink dramatically, not only the huge loss of Yangjiang, but also a disaster for China's hardware and plastic products industry.

Difficulties need to be cracked. The Guangdong Inspection and Quarantine Bureau made strategic arrangements and quickly deployed, and started the Yangjiang hardware and scissors export defense campaign. In October 2006, the Guangdong Inspection and Quarantine Bureau and the Yangjiang City Government signed the "Memorandum on Establishing a Mechanism to Strengthen Export Inspection of EU-Food Contact Materials and Products to Expand Export Cooperation" (hereinafter referred to as the "Memorandum of Cooperation"). This is the Guangdong Inspection and Quarantine Bureau. The first memorandum of cooperation signed by local governments is also an active exploration of the establishment of product quality by inspection and quarantine departments and local governments.