Europe is China's lighting products export the world's second largest market, is China's lighting foreign trade enterprises must compete. The economic and trade relations between China and Europe in the field of lighting have maintained a healthy and stable development trend for a long time, and the two sides have strong complementarity and huge development potential, and have formed a benign development pattern of mutual benefit and win-win. From January to September 2023, the amount of China's lighting products exported to the European market was about 10.2 billion US dollars, accounting for 24% of China's lighting exports, down 13% year-on-year. Among them, the export value of electric light source related products was 1.1 billion US dollars, down 22% year-on-year; The export value of luminary-related products was about 8.1 billion US dollars, down 13% year-on-year.
The European Union is the most stringent regional market for the quality of lighting products. In addition to random inspection of the quality of the product itself, corresponding provisions have been made for the low-carbon and environmental protection properties of the product. The European Union's recall of China's lighting products reflects the quality of China's lighting products to a certain extent, but also highlights some of the results of China's lighting industry actively building a new development pattern.
From the recall information issued by the European Commission's non-food Rapid warning system (RAPEX), the quality of China's lighting products sold in the European Union from January to September has the following characteristics: First, product safety and environmental protection issues have become the main reason for China's lighting products to be recalled; Second, the quality of lighting products sold in Eastern Europe and Northern Europe is more prominent; Third, the lamp string products are still the number of recalls in the lighting products exported to Europe in China.
Compared with other countries and regions, EU countries have strong supervision and spot checks, strong pertinence, and strict implementation standards. Export enterprises should pay attention to the latest standards implemented by the EU in a timely manner, starting from product design, raw material procurement, manufacturing and other production links to further improve the quality level of products, and export lighting products that meet local standards. At the same time, lighting products export enterprises should also pay more attention to the environmental standards of export destination products, strictly use environmental compliance materials that meet local standards for production and manufacturing, and constantly improve the green and environmental attributes of products to further enhance the competitiveness and reputation of Chinese lighting products in overseas markets.
