中國鋼鐵工業(yè)協(xié)會對此深感震驚，并聲明如下：
一、中國鋼鐵工業(yè)協(xié)會完全不認(rèn)同美歐9家鋼鐵協(xié)會的做法和看法。中國鋼鐵產(chǎn)業(yè)作為貿(mào)易保護(hù)主義的受害者反對借鋼鐵貿(mào)易否認(rèn)中國的市場經(jīng)濟(jì)地位的做法，認(rèn)為這已經(jīng)超出了行業(yè)組織工作范圍，超出了鋼鐵貿(mào)易糾紛范疇，無視全球鋼鐵市場已進(jìn)入充分競爭時期。在當(dāng)前全球鋼鐵產(chǎn)業(yè)面臨困難的情況下，美歐9家鋼鐵協(xié)會事先未與中方作任何溝通就發(fā)表內(nèi)容草率的聲明，絲毫無助于問題的解決。
二、產(chǎn)能過剩是全球鋼鐵行業(yè)在產(chǎn)業(yè)結(jié)構(gòu)調(diào)整中面臨的共同問題，需要全球鋼鐵產(chǎn)業(yè)共同努力。簡單地把本國或本地區(qū)鋼鐵產(chǎn)業(yè)的困難歸結(jié)于中國企業(yè)的說法是不負(fù)責(zé)任的，對解決本國或本地區(qū)鋼鐵產(chǎn)業(yè)困難，促進(jìn)全球鋼鐵產(chǎn)業(yè)良好發(fā)展沒有任何幫助。
三、中國政府、行業(yè)、企業(yè)近年來積極采取有效措施，致力于化解過剩鋼鐵產(chǎn)能，所付出的努力和取得的成效有目共睹。2011年以來，中國積極淘汰落后產(chǎn)能，加強(qiáng)節(jié)能環(huán)保，已經(jīng)削減粗鋼產(chǎn)能7780萬噸，今后還要以更大的力度削減產(chǎn)能。同時，中國鋼鐵企業(yè)根據(jù)市場需求積極主動減產(chǎn)，今年1-10月全國粗鋼產(chǎn)量同比下降2.23%，已經(jīng)減產(chǎn)1500多萬噸。必須承認(rèn)，化解過剩鋼鐵產(chǎn)能是一個較長的過程，歐美等國上世紀(jì)七十年代曾用了十幾年時間化解過剩產(chǎn)能，中國化解過剩產(chǎn)能也將需要一定的時間，中國企業(yè)將借鑒歐美等國的成功做法，并努力加快化解過剩產(chǎn)能的進(jìn)程。
四、經(jīng)濟(jì)全球化已經(jīng)將世界各國的鋼鐵產(chǎn)業(yè)聯(lián)系在一起，中國沒有鼓勵鋼鐵產(chǎn)品出口，中國鋼鐵企業(yè)是在市場充分競爭的條件下進(jìn)行生產(chǎn)和銷售的。我們已經(jīng)注意到今年中國鋼材出口增長對有些國家和地區(qū)帶來的影響，力求改觀，但不能否認(rèn)主要是市場的作用和競爭力因素，中國的鋼鐵產(chǎn)品在進(jìn)口地是受歡迎的，為眾多的消費(fèi)者帶來了利益。
五、對于鋼鐵貿(mào)易中出現(xiàn)的問題，中國鋼鐵工業(yè)協(xié)會和企業(yè)一直高度重視。一方面積極加強(qiáng)行業(yè)自律，進(jìn)一步規(guī)范出口秩序；另一方面通過積極溝通、磋商對話，以及交流合作等方式謀求有效解決，并已經(jīng)取得較好的效果。我們希望全球鋼鐵業(yè)界進(jìn)一步增進(jìn)交流溝通，增進(jìn)相互了解，加強(qiáng)合作，共同維護(hù)國際鋼鐵貿(mào)易秩序，促進(jìn)全球鋼鐵產(chǎn)業(yè)的良好發(fā)展。
November 25, 2015
CISA’S STATEMENT ON JOINTLY SAFEGUARDING INTERNATIONAL STEEL TRADE ORDER
Recently, nine steel associations from America and Europe released a joint statement, claiming that “the global steel industry is
currently suffering from a crisis of overcapacity and the Chinese steel industry is the predominant global contributor to this problem”,
and expressing their opposition to China’s market economy treatment which will be automatically accorded in December 2016.
China Iron and Steel Association is astonished to hear about it and hereby makes the statement as follows:
1. China Iron and Steel Association totally disagrees to the practice and viewpoints of the nine steel associations from America and
Europe. Chinese steel industry, as a victim of trade protectionism, opposes to using the excuse of steel trade to deny China’s market
economy status. We think such behaviour is beyond the scope of industry association’s work and steel trade conflicts, as well as
regardless of the fact that the global steel market has entered into a fully competitive period. In the scenario of serious difficulties facing the global steel industry, the nine steel associations, without any prior communications with China, released the perfunctory statement, which isn’t helpful to finding solutions at all.
2. Overcapacity is a common issue in the global steel industry restructuring, which requires the concerted efforts of all the parties
in the global steel industry. To simply attribute the difficulties in one country or region to the Chinese enterprises is not responsible,
nor is beneficial for solving the industry difficulties in their own country or region and promoting the smooth development of the global
steel industry.
3. In the last few years, the Chinese government, steel industry and enterprises have taken effective measures to resolve
overcapacity. The efforts they have made and the results they have achieved can be seen by everyone. Since 2011, China has
actively eliminated obsolete capacities, and reinforced energy saving and environmental protection. 77.8 million tons of crude steel
capacities have been eliminated and more efforts will be made to reduce capacities. At the same time, Chinese steel mills have actively
cut their production in accordance with the market demand. From January to October 2015, Chinese crude steel output has declined
by 2.23% y-o-y, a reduction of more than 15 million tons. It must be admitted that resolving overcapacity is a long-
term process. The US and European countries spent more than one decade in resolving overcapacity in the 1970s and China will take
a certain period of time to do so as well. Chinese steel mills will learn the successful practices and experience from their counterparts in the US and European countries, to accelerate the process of resolving overcapacity.
4. The economic globalization has integrated the steel industries of different countries in the world. China does not encourage
steel exports and Chinese steel mills produce and sell their products in the fully competitive market. We have noted that the increasing
Chinese steel exports this year have brought about some impacts on some countries and regions, and we have tried to make some adjustments. However, it can not be denied that the increasing exports are mainly due to the market forces and competitiveness and Chinese steel products are popular in the export destinations, bringing about benefits for many consumers.
5. China Iron and Steel Association and Chinese steel mills always give high priority to the issues arising from steel trade. On the
one hand, we actively strengthen industry selfregulation and further regulate the export order; on the other hand, we seek proper
solutions through ways of communications, dialogues, negotiations, exchanges and cooperation, etc., which have achieved better
results. We hope the global steel industries could further enhance communications and exchanges, reinforce mutual understanding
and cooperation in order to jointly safeguard the international steel trade order and promote the smooth development of the world
steel industry.