EU intends to raise the corresponding standard for directional energy-efficient lamps and directional LED lights: EU can only accept directional LED lights and directional fluorescent lamps with energy efficiency coefficient larger than or equal to 0.2 (2.5 times higher than previous energy efficiency standard). The U.S. government launched even more strict standards for directional lighting devices, more strict market supervision and inspection procedures.
At present, there are more than 3000 LED enterprises in Guangdong, most of which are exporters to Europe and North America. The announcement of new standards from EU and the U.S. government exerted huge influences on our LED industry and export products. According to the estimation of WTO/TBT Notification and Enquiry Center of Guangdong Province, LED enterprises in Guangdong Province will therefore increase the production cost of around 40 billion yuan.
In recent years, regions and countries in Europe and the United State continued to limit the export of Chinese products via their technological advantages and patent monopoly, in order to protect the domestic industry. These technical barriers usually caused great loss to our manufacturers, and meanwhile reflected the defects of them: lacking of core technologies and patents, being subject to foreign technologies and enterprises in some areas.
In fact, this problem has been existed for a long time. Not only the LED industry, many other industries hindered by such problem, which also blocked the development of relevant industries in China. But now this problem is particularly acute in the led tunnel light industry, waiting for effective solutions urgently.
The current state of the domestic LED industry is: low LED technical content and products with different qualities, having no obvious advantages no matter in the international market or in the domestic market. Cutting price is the last and the most upset solutions for them, leading to price war and vicious competitions. In order to survive under such circumstances, many LED manufactures tried to reduce production costs instead of improving their technologies. This is sign of vicious circle and final destruction. Indeed, companies could get short-term profits by doing so, but it is impossible for them to have a long-term sustainable development. And the promotion of LED and other green light sources will take a heavy toll.