Reporter gets a news from Shanxi coke association that in next year coke export policy will tighten and China will further increase the threshold for coke export. More and more coke manufacturers will be forced to quit export market.


It is reported that a few days ago Ministry of Commerce issued the application qualifications and procedure of coke export quota of the year of 2008 that makes new regulation for qualification of coke export quota company. The ministry regulates that application company must meet the following qualifications. Firstly, the company must meet coke industry permission qualifications. These companies list sees the ministry proclamation. Secondly, coke export quantity must not be less than 250,000 tons in 2006 or annual coke export quantity must not be less than 200,000 tons between 2004 and 2006. Thirdly, coke quality must reach active national standard and has passed the attestation of ISO9000 quality system. For distribution company that will apply coke export quota, its registered capital must not less than 50 millions yuan and annual coke export quantity must not be less than 200,000 ton between 2004 and 2006; Or its business range includes domestic trade and annual coke export quantity must not be less than 400,000 ton between 2004 and 2006. This new regulations also regulates for company that was registered after Jan. 1st of 2007, coke export quality won’t be calculated between it and its affiliated or relevant companies.

    
According to the qualifications, at present, there are only 41 companies may gain coke export quota among all coke import and export companies in China.
    
A leader from Shanxi Coke Association thinks, from 5% export tax collection of 2006 to export tax increase to 15% of this May 21st and to export qualifications increase, these measures suggest that under the pressures from resource and environment our country has gradually changed its encouraging export policy. Seeing from next-year-quota-gained companies, two batches of coke export quotas are shared by 41 companies; Export companies quantity is reduced again and coke export centralization degree further rises.

    
It is reported that coke companies expressed their different feelings when they received this documents. A head from International department of Shanxi Provincial Coke Group analyzed the regulation will produce different influence to different companies. For example, to such domestic market based companies as Shanxi Coke Stock Company and Taihua Stock Company, the document will make little harm to them, and even it is good news for them. But for export companies, if their qualifications do not reach the documental ones, they only can quit coke export market.