Bob Latham, sustainability director, Paperlinx Europe "Paperlinx UK understands the reasons and arguments behind the EU’s Chinese anti-dumping duties and has been monitoring this and other trade issues closely. We have already re-sourced relevant products so as to maintain continuity of our offer. One area where we disagree, though, is the EU’s singling out of Paperlinx, Northampton, as the sole UK importer from China. This goes against our understanding of the UK coated fine paper market and insight that there have been multiple channels of import from China over many years."
Michael Moradian, owner, Print Express London "When a country or manufacturer is suspected of dumping large amounts of product which artificially reduce price, action is taken to protect business in the EU. The problem here is that printers are seduced by lower raw material prices – especially in the face of significant paper price increases. We need to help and protect the UK print industry. Few printers can pass off substantial price rises because of the value they add. The EU’s decision should be twinned with action to stabilise and reduce paper prices within the EU."
Justin Hobson, marketing director, Fenner Paper "It seems to me if the Chinese paper industry is ‘proven’ to be actually subsidising prices to an artificially low level, then the EU, as with the US, has to take this drastic action. If it wasn’t to do so, we would end up with no paper manufacturing capability at all. And in the long term, this could only be detrimental to the European industries. I’m sure it will serve to keep paper prices more stable in the long term even though this new legislation may have the effect of more printed items, as opposed to plain paper, being imported into the EU."
Bob Latham, sustainability director, Paperlinx Europe "Paperlinx UK understands the reasons and arguments behind the EU’s Chinese anti-dumping duties and has been monitoring this and other trade issues closely. We have already re-sourced relevant products so as to maintain continuity of our offer. One area where we disagree, though, is the EU’s singling out of Paperlinx, Northampton, as the sole UK importer from China. This goes against our understanding of the UK coated fine paper market and insight that there have been multiple channels of import from China over many years."
Michael Moradian, owner, Print Express London "When a country or manufacturer is suspected of dumping large amounts of product which artificially reduce price, action is taken to protect business in the EU. The problem here is that printers are seduced by lower raw material prices – especially in the face of significant paper price increases. We need to help and protect the UK print industry. Few printers can pass off substantial price rises because of the value they add. The EU’s decision should be twinned with action to stabilise and reduce paper prices within the EU."
Justin Hobson, marketing director, Fenner Paper "It seems to me if the Chinese paper industry is ‘proven’ to be actually subsidising prices to an artificially low level, then the EU, as with the US, has to take this drastic action. If it wasn’t to do so, we would end up with no paper manufacturing capability at all. And in the long term, this could only be detrimental to the European industries. I’m sure it will serve to keep paper prices more stable in the long term even though this new legislation may have the effect of more printed items, as opposed to plain paper, being imported into the EU."
