In 2006, fundamental changes have taken place in the format of import and export in steel and iron industry of China. The export is up to 2.927 million, changing the situation of negative increase for 57 years. However, with the massive export increase, the amount of trade friction has greatly increased. Within the past eleven months in 2006, the amount of anti-dumping case is up to 27, from eleven different countries, valued at US$900 million. From the above we can see that our steel and iron trade still faces problems. In addition, since the iron and steel industry is the most strategic to every country in the world and one of essential ones to China’s economy, whose development has a close relation to many other industries such as energy and resources, questions like whether its fast development will bring the detrimental effects on the environment draw more and more attention of experts and scholars.
This paper falls into three parts: the first part is introducing current situation of steel and iron industry of our country and its main characteristics; in the second part, through the analyses of the development, we found there are two serious problems: the structure of our trade is unreasonable and the over-fast development has several latent dangers. As the key part of the paper, the last part shows some suggestion of the solving of problems mentioned in the second part.
【Key Words】Steel and Iron Trade; Surplus Productivity; Product Structure; Trade Conflict
