Saccharin from China - USITC

GLOBAL MARKETSupply and DemandData for global saccharin production by country are not publicly available. In consequence,publicly available Global Trade Atlas (“GTIS”) trade volume data were the principal source for thecurrent review encompassing calendar years 2003-08. GTIS data are available at the 6-digit HTS 2925.11level, which may include saccharin outside the scope of the review. Export data and companion importdata for 15 leading nonsubject global exporters of saccharin were extracted from the GTIS database, ofwhich six countries currently ship saccharin to the United States (India, Japan, Netherlands, South Korea,Spain, and Taiwan). Individual country trade balances (trade surpluses and deficits) were subsequentlycalculated, and are also included herein. Data for Israel, which also ships saccharin to the United States,is currently not available on the GTIS database. Composite European Union (“EU”) external trade dataare also reported, together with reference data on the United States and on the subject country of China.Only two major exporters of saccharin (China and Korea) are principally exporters of theproduct; and thus, they experience large trade surpluses. Several large global exporters, however, havetraditionally experienced relatively large trade deficits in saccharin. Both exports and imports of suchcountries (e.g., Germany, Japan, and Taiwan) have been growing, but import demand has continued tooutstrip that of exports. External trade outside of the EU countries is significant, but relatively balancedbetween exports from out of the region and imports into the region. As would be expected, there is asignificant amount of cross-border trade between EU countries, the EU-15 countries in particular.Export data by volume for major nonsubject exporting countries of interest for the five-yearperiod 2003-07 are shown in table IV-7; U.S. and China export trade is shown for reference. Thecountries are ranked based on calendar year 2007.In 2007, Korea was the leading nonsubject global saccharin exporter with 36 percent of the 15-country total and Korea and Germany together accounted for 58 percent of the total. Germany, Korea,and Taiwan experienced export growth rates significantly above average during the five-year periodexamined. During the five-year period, saccharin export volume grew by 45 percent for the top 15nonsubject countries. EU external trade also increased.IV-8