The Ministry of Commerce on May 4, 2009 officially received the domestic methanol production enterprises of foreign methanol product dumping allegations, and decided since June 24, 2009 originating in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Indonesia and New Zealand imported methanol anti-dumping investigation. The dumping investigation period determined in this survey is from April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009. The survey period of industrial injury is from January 1, 2006 to March 31, 2009. On the dumping investigation, any interested party before July 15th, the Ministry of Commerce to the import and Export Fair Trade Bureau for the participation of the respondent, the respondent in the exporters or producers should also be provided from April 2008 to March 2009 to Chinese export this case is the quantity and amount of products survey.

Methanol is only a microcosm of the industrial anti-dumping, in fact, as a commodity chemical raw materials, has always been the protagonist of the world anti-dumping case. From 1997 to the end of June 2009, filed 58 anti-dumping in China, including 42 chemical products, accounted for 72% of the number of filing. The first 6 months of this year, China's anti-dumping filing 4 (last year filed 6 cases), respectively, terephthalic acid, nucleotide food additives, polyamide -6 slice and methanol, are chemicals and related products. Preliminary anti-dumping from 1, 1, 4- butanediol; the final 1, as the primary form of two methyl siloxane ring body, the two cases were positive ruling.

In China continue to reduce import tariffs, reduce non-tariff barriers, especially in the joined WTO after fulfilling China WTO commitments under the condition of foreign products in order to seize the market China, have taken the form of dumping into the market, causing serious damage to many of the industry China. In the oil and chemical industry, this phenomenon frequently occurs, and correspondingly, China's oil and chemical industry actively use trade relief means to protect their own interests, but also in the forefront of key industries. The methanol anti-dumping case the applicant almost covers the domestic methanol production enterprises the main industry, including Shanghai Coking Co. Ltd., Inner Mongolia Yuan Xing Energy Limited by Share Ltd, Lunan Chemical fertilizer plant, Yankuang Cathay Chemical Co. Ltd. etc. in their columns. These applications and support applications for enterprises in 2006, 2007, 2008, January 2009 and March methanol production and accounted for the same period in mainland China similar products total output of more than 50%.

According to the analysis of the relevant customs data editing Chinese chemical information network since 2008, China's methanol imports surge in the number of 2008, total imports of 1 million 434 thousand tons, an increase of 69.7%, reached the highest value since 2003. After entering 2009, the impact of overseas methanol further increased, in 2009 1~4 month cumulative imports reached 2 million 246 thousand and 700 tons, overseas methanol sales rose by 838.3% year on year. Feng Shiliang, Deputy Secretary General of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association, pointed out that &ldquo is one of the manifestations of dumping. &rdquo: according to the Ministry of Commerce key industry injury warning data center data show that in 2009 1~4 months, China's production of methanol 2 million 970 thousand tons, 2 million 250 thousand tons of imports, foreign dependence of 43%. In April, imports of methanol 599 thousand tons, an increase of 357.8%, 68% of the national output that month, should cause great concern.