EU 60 billion medical apparatus can import market

The EU is the world's second only to the United States's second-largest market, the EU's total population of 26 countries amounted to more than 4 million people, this is the main EU market growth.

In addition, a single currency makes the EU medical device product price transparency, prompting the EU to become more competitive regions, forming a highly sophisticated market system. According to global Customs statistics, in 2007, EU imports of up to 635 million in medical devices, and 557 million in 2006, an increase compared to 13.87%; in the first half of 2008, the total amount of medical devices imported 268 billion, and imports in the first half of 2007 equaled. Medical equipment demand large press product classification, diagnosis and treatment equipment hospital is the largest European demand. In 2007, the EU market hospital diagnosis and treatment equipment imported $ 397 billion, accounting for the EU all medical equipment import markets of the United States, 62.61%, Switzerland is a winner in the market of such products. Medical supplies and medical dressings market share respectively second and third, the ratio respectively 23.23% and 7.39%, these products with price and quality advantages accounted for a higher market share. From market growth trends, health rehabilitation supplies, dental equipment and materials are most market growth potential of the product, relative to the 2006, 2007, two categories of products increases year-over-year respectively 26.43% and 17.66%, well above the 13.87% overall increase.

China's rapid growth of export apparatus is the EU's first United States large medical devices imported origin, representing the EU imports more than 20% of the total, but its market share in recent years than fluctuates.

EU imports from the United States a year-on-year growth of medical devices is 9.74%, import products for the diagnosis and treatment equipment in hospitals. China is the EU's third-largest imported medical devices in the countries of origin. In 2007 the EU total imports of medical equipment from China nearly 17 billion, accounting for more than only 2% to 3%. However, as China's medical industry, our products in the EU market has increased significantly, the market share than space and export growth are on the rise. EU imports from China's annual growth rate of medical devices is 11.06%, higher than the United States and other countries. Our main advantage products are health rehabilitation supplies and dressings category of product. In these two categories of products on the EU's exports to EU imports of the countries of origin in columns I and II.