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At present, the core objective of the "unity tool" planned by the EU is to support European enterprises through funds, weaken the dependency of key supply chains on China, hedge the risk of China's trade countermeasures, and try to alleviate the trade deficit between China and Europe. This policy has formed a clear game momentum with the recent normalized economic and trade consultations between China and Europe. China has taken the initiative to focus on trade balance through the China-EU trade and investment consultation mechanism, and opened the domestic market to help European enterprises expand sales, adhering to the concept of mutually beneficial and win-win trade development. However, the nature of the unilateral introduction of new trade tools by the EU is the extension of trade protection. Moreover, the capital scale of this mechanism has not been determined, and the policy implementation is highly uncertain. The overall implementation pace will follow the fluctuation of trade game situation between China and Europe, which will change the cross-border trade and supporting logistics industry between China and Europe.
Large engineering equipment such as rotary drilling rig and pile driver is the core category of Sino-EU cross-border heavy industry trade, and also an important part of global infrastructure supply chain. With outstanding cost performance and intelligent advantages, China's large-scale pile foundation engineering equipment has been exported to EU and European countries in batches for a long time and widely used in local infrastructure, municipal and geotechnical engineering construction. At the same time, European high-end heavy industrial accessories and supporting equipment are also continuously imported into the domestic market, forming a stable trade pattern of two-way circulation. This kind of large equipment has the characteristics of large size, high weight, long transportation cycle, and customized logistics in the whole process. It is highly dependent on the stable Sino-EU trade policy and cross-border shipping system, and the policy changes will be directly transmitted to the whole logistics and transportation chain.
The "unity tool" of European Union takes weakening the supply chain dependence on China as the core guidance, which will indirectly impact the cross-border trade and logistics system of large engineering equipment. In order to support local heavy industry enterprises, the European Union subsequently or pertinently tightened the import access of engineering equipment to China, set up hidden trade barriers, and restricted the entry of Chinese rotary drilling rigs, piling machines and other equipment into the European market.g. For the logistics industry, the most direct impact is the fluctuation of the directional shipping position and special line logistics demand between China and Europe, and the original stable large equipment shipping line cargo volume is facing the risk of shrinkage. At the same time, the tentative characteristics of EU policies make it difficult for cross-border logistics enterprises to pre-judge market demands and accurately plan transportation capacity, warehousing and heavy-cargo transportation supporting resources, greatly improving the difficulty of business pre-judgment of enterprises.
The implementation of this new tool is very expensive, and the EU will adjust the capital investment according to the Chinese countervailing force, which means that the Sino-EU trade friction has the potential of continuous upgrading. If the trade game between the two parties intensifies, tariff adjustment and trade restriction measures upgrading will become normal, which will directly affect the import and export links of large equipment such as rotary drilling rig and pile driving machine. The logistics process of such large equipment is complex, involving customs declaration and inspection, over-limit transportation of large equipment, ocean shipping insurance, special hoisting and other links. The increase of trade barriers will extend the customs clearance period, and add additional compliance costs and risk control costs. At the same time, European enterprises adjust the supply chain based on policy subsidies, which will lead to the diversion of part of equipment orders, the goods source structure of cross-border logistics enterprises is forced to be reconstructed, and the short-term operating costs rise significantly.
Compared with the unilateral trade protection measures of EU, the implementation of China-EU trade and investment consultation mechanism lays a foundation for stable development of large engineering equipment shipping logistics industry. China actively focuses on the trade balance issue and does not avoid European concerns. At the same time, it continues to open the market by relying on such platforms as China Expo and China Export, and advocates that both sides cancel unreasonable trade restrictions and deepen trade cooperation in the field of heavy industry. For rotary drilling rigs, piling machines and other engineering equipment just in need, the normalized economic and trade negotiation between China and Europe can effectively hedge the adverse impact of unilateral policies, relieve the pressure of trade barrier upgrading, guarantee the basic circulation order of two-way equipment trade, and enable the core business chain of cross-border bulk logistics to operate stably.
In the long run, the unilateral "new tools" of EU are difficult to reverse the complementary pattern of Sino-EU heavy industry trade, but will continue to aggravate the short-term fluctuation of the industry. In the future, the shipping logistics industry of large engineering equipment will present the development trend of "overall stability and local adjustment". Logistics enterprises shall actively adapt to policy changes, on the one hand, optimize the Sino-European heavy-cargo logistics transportation scheme, improve customs clearance efficiency and strictly control compliance costs; On the other hand, expand market channels, give consideration to European markets and overseas emerging markets, and disperse single regional policy risks. At the same time, based on the benign opportunity of China-EU economic and trade consultation, closely follow the trend of bilateral trade policies, deepen the fine and customized large-scale equipment cross-border logistics services, and resist the market impact caused by trade protection.
