Q3 China's imports of metal processing machine prices rise

On October 13, China's Customs released the latest statistics show that in September 2011, China imported 9863 sets of metal processing machine tools, a decrease of 10.98% over the previous month's 11078, a decrease of 13.3 than in September 2010's 11376. %; Imports amounted to approximately US$1.282 billion, a decrease of 7.19% from US$1.381 billion in the previous month, but still an increase of 33.2% from US$962 million in September 2010; the average import price was US$130,000 per unit, compared with the previous month. The US$124,700/unit increased by 4.24%, a substantial increase of 53.64% compared with September 2010 of US$84,600/unit.

In the first three quarters of 2011, China imported 90,200 sets of metal processing machine tools, an increase of 13.7% from 79,300 units in the same period of 2010; the amount of imports was 9.914 billion US dollars, an increase of 51.4% from the US$6.547 billion in the same period of 2010; The unit price for imports was US$109,900 per unit, an increase of 33.21% over the US$82,500 per unit for the same period in 2010.

According to statistics, in August, China imported 1909 CNC machine tools, a slight decrease of 0.05% from the previous month and a year-on-year decrease of 7.33%; the import amount was US$562 million, a year-on-year increase of 15.7%, and a year-on-year increase of 80.63%; the import price was US$299,400/ station. It increased by 15.76% from the previous quarter and was up 94.91% year-on-year. From January to August, China imported a total of 17700 CNC machine tools, a year-on-year increase of 43.6%. The import volume was approximately US$3.301 billion, an increase of 54.27% year-on-year, and the average import unit price was US$21.23 million per unit, an increase of 4.76% year-on-year.

In the first three quarters, the import value of metal processing machine tools in China increased by 51% year-on-year; at the same time, the import value of CNC machine tools increased by 54% over the previous 8 months. This reflects the significant increase in demand for mid- to high-end products in China's machine tool market and reflects domestic There are deficiencies in the technical level and industrialization of high-end products. In the first three quarters, the average unit price of China's metal processing machine tool imports increased by 33.21%. The main reasons are: the relatively high percentage of machine tools in the import of metal processing machine tools, such as horizontal lathes, other grinders, tool grinders, ultrasonic processing machine tools, presses, forging or stamping machine tools, and other unit prices rose higher. This also shows that the adjustment of the product structure of the machine tool industry is not ideal and does not achieve the goal of replacing imports.