Source: China Chemical Newspaper

Recently, Sino -US trade tensions have intensified. On August 2nd, the United States intends to increase tax rates from about $ 200 billion in goods imported from China from 10%to 25%. On August 3, China decided to impose tariffs of 25%, 20%, 10%, and 5%of the 5207 taxes native to the United States. Among them, many categories of chemical products such as coatings, titanium pink powder, pigments, and resin are included in the scope of tariffs.

China Chemical Newspaper reporters noticed that in the list of 25%tariffs on the United States, 2-methyl propiner, isoprene, cycane, toluene, neighboring toluene, and pyrine are used as the basic ingredients as the basic ingredients as the basic ingredients as the basic ingredients as the basic ingredients as the basic ingredient A variety of chemical products such as pigment and products, scattered or dissolved in polyester paint and varnish dissolved in non -water media are listed. In the list of 20%tariff products to the United States, the pigment and the product that is the product with its basic ingredients, the dry volume meter titanium dioxide & GE; 80%of the pigments and products (except titanium pink powder), and other pigments and products with zinc sulfide as the basic ingredients Scattered or dissolved in chemical products such as acrylic polymer paint and varnish in non -water media. In the list of 10%tariff products to the United States, the pigments and products (dry measurement meter titanium dioxide & lt; 80%), chromium compounds with basic ingredients and products with diatomite, titanium pink powder, titanium dioxide, and products are used for paint. Pigs and retail shapes or retail packaging dyes, color materials and other chemical products are listed.

Industry insiders believe that although a variety of coating products have been included in the ranks of tariffs, the export of coatings in China will not have much impact after improving tariffs. Specifically, such as Baise Bear, Benjamin Moore, Dunn coatings, etc., which are exported from the original jar of the United States to the Chinese market, they may be relatively affected; and for PPG, Xuanwei, Westberry, Ai For enterprises such as Shi De and other factories in China, the impact is expected to be smaller.

Liu Jie, deputy secretary -general of the China Coatings Association, said that the import and export of Chinese coatings is not large. If the two parties impose tariffs, the affected mainly is the downstream field of the coatings, and the impact is significantly significantly. Essence In addition, the trade war has a greater impact on the raw material field of coatings. Tao, Eastman and other coating companies recently said that if the import price of certain raw materials has risen due to tariffs, coatings products will also be forced to increase prices, and downstream users should be prepared for this.

According to Yang Xun, an analyst at the business agency, from the export side, the amount of titanium pink exported to the United States in 2017 was 46,000 tons, accounting for only 5.56%of the total exports. Essence At present, the world's high -end chloride titanium pink powder is mainly in the hands of American companies such as Komu, Hunsmai, and Tino. The titanium white powder exported by my country is basically mid -range products. From the global high -end market that American companies, they have grabbed some shares.

From the import end, in 2017, my country's titanium pink imported from the United States was 35,000 tons, accounting for 16.28%of the total imports. It can be seen that there is still a certain rigid demand for domestic high -end titanium pinks in the United States, but since Sino -US trade is tight, domestic buyers have been prepared one after another. For alternatives, the demand for domestic chloride titanium pink products has been improved.

Another industry insiders believe that the Sino -US trade war will accelerate the development of titanium pink powder in China and achieve more rapid quality improvement and increase. In the future, in the process of sulfuric acid method and chloride method It will become a big producer and eventually master the right to speak and pricing.