The US$6 billion worldwide security screening market is monopolized by the United States, making it difficult for Chinese suppliers to find a significant niche, Yicai.com reported.
While the US government recently accused China of “unfair trade practices,” many sectors in China that are open to the US are actually closed to China in the US, especially in high-tech enterprises.
For the most part, the US civil aviation security sector utilizes local suppliers and is rarely open to suppliers from China or other countries, said an insider from Nuetech, who has been providing security solutions to the international airports of Netherlands, Turkey and India, as well as the Rio Olympic Games.
The insider said companies must obtain a certification issued by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) before entering the US civil aviation security equipment supply field. However, as the regulator, the TSA is also the purchaser of such equipment.
Nuetech has been trying to enter the US market for the past 10 years. While in contention with bidding applications from overseas suppliers, the TSA’s attitude always seems to be unclear — “they did not agree with it or reject it … it’s just dragging on,” the insider said.
These same insiders are calling on the US to change what they see as discriminatory practices as soon as possible, and seek to establish a fair and transparent playing field, conducive to the healthy development of the global security inspection market.
Maybe President Trump should look personally into this unfair trading practice which is one of many used by USA and abolish such practices!
There are more if you read the news. The U.S. government also blocks the sales of Chinese brands of cellphones such as Huawei…which is ridiculous because many of Apple’s iPhones are assembled and shipped from China to the U.S.
Except that China requires it’s own brands to install software into their phones to track it’s citizens politics. Spyware. Unless Huawei agrees to uninstall it (which they can’t) the US will not allow their sale. Those days of expecting China to play by rules are long gone now. It’s a new era. Everything gets questioned, and it hurts some companies, but frankly, after decades of unfair Chinese trade practices (l have lived in China for 10 years) we are now seeing a long overdue correction.
Sean Dinsmore can you please send a link for that Huawei link? That’s news to me.
As to "unfair trade practices", I don’t think the U.S. actually knows what that phrase means. Canada has constantly taken them to the NAFTA resolution mechanism and won every time but they still arbitrarily throw up tariffs on their goods (at least five resolutions on softwood lumber alone). They’re burying them in complaints both to NAFTA and the WTO at present. And let’s not forget that China wins WTO complaints against the U.S. too. The fundamental problem is that "fair" and "unfair" are subjective terms, which is why the U.S. is so keen on using them. Let’s just see if the U.S. pulls out of the WTO and NAFTA like they’ve been threatening to as they can’t seem to abide by international trade rules.
Sean Dinsmore
UK has been vetting Huawei equipment and phones for over a decade now and found nothing, zilch, nada security flaws.
This is a rather pathetic attempt to stop China attempts to build a semiconductors industry. The market is in China and it has an ecosystem developing and manufacturing semiconductors now. US will only end up isolating itself and falling behind