Post WTO Era Situation of Domestic I & S/Steel Tube Sector and Countermoves Proposed

Analyzed here in the paper are the current situation of domestic I & S/steel tube sector, i.e., low costs, high production, weak competitiveness for world market due to low added values of the export-oriented products, capacity surplus of general-purpose seamless and weld tubulars and deficient capacity for high quality and sophisticated product types as demanded by the market places. It is emphasized that although after China’s entry of WTO, Chinese government has taken certain temporary protective measures for I & S products which are considerably fruitful, such actions can not bring about the substantial change of the reality of domestic I & S sector featuring weak competitiveness, and that the only way to meet this purpose is to produce more sophisticated products, speed up the restructuring of the industry as well as to built up a complete early warning system against any possible injury to the sector.