Shanghai Customs statistics show that the January to October, total exports of Shanghai Customs plastic products 936,000 tons, the value of 2,680,000,000 U.S. dollars, the same period last year increased 0.6 percent and 10.4 percent, respectively, an increase of 5.3 percent and down 0.6 percentage points; average Export price of 2.9 U.S. dollars / kg, up 9.8 percent. By the decrease in demand for foreign trade barriers as well as such factors as the increasing influence of the Shanghai Customs Plastics slowdown in export growth.

Exports to the United States and the European Union fell at the same time, exports to Japan fell. January to October, Shanghai customs area of the United States, Japan and the European Union, plastic products exports were 297,000 tons, 179,000 tons and 174,000 tons, accounting for the same period the total customs area of the total exports of plastic products 69.5 percent. Among them, exports to the United States and the European Union from the same period last year, the growth of 4.1 percent and 7.2 percent decline to 6.9 percent and 6.8 percent; exports to Japan grew 2.3 percent, an increase of 2.7 percentage point decline.

On the export of species, transport of goods or packaging of plastic products exports is still dominant, and plastics and household appliances, washing is substantially reduced. January to October, Shanghai customs area for the transport or export of plastic packaging products 321,000 tons from the same period of last year's 8.1 percent growth for the reversal of declining 1.5 percent, accounting for the same period customs area of the total exports of plastic products 34.3%; exports of plastic household And washing utensils and plastic bathtub, shower set, basin, sanitary ware, such as pumping water tanks were exported 65,000 tons and 25,000 tons respectively by the growth of 3.1 percent and 69.7 percent for the reversal of declining 20.7 percent and 0.9 percent.

Plastic products manufacturing enterprises of the large number and number of mainly small and medium enterprises, more than the Customs and Excise Department, for example, of January to October, Shanghai Customs has recorded exports of plastic products for enterprises 17,000, an increase over the same period last year, 1042, but The average exports from the same period of last year's 60.1 tons / home to 5 .. 7 t / home dropped 5.7 percent. The influx of a large number of small and medium enterprises, plastics enterprises export diseconomies of scale, the average decrease instead of increase, it is difficult to resolve, through large-scale production of high cost pressures, profit margins have been compressed further.

Plastic products is comparative advantage of China's traditional labor-intensive products, while ensuring a steady and relatively fast economic growth, expansion of employment is of great significance. To this end, China this year on November 1 will be part of the plastic products from the export tax rebate rate from 5% to 9%, a move to defuse the pressure on the exports of plastic products will have a positive effect. However, trade in the global economy against the backdrop of a slowdown, the pace of optimizing the industrial structure of plastic to be further accelerated through the development of large-scale production and lower production costs, enhance anti-risk ability to resist.