*More U.S. Companies Considering Renminbi to
Settle Trade*
Nearly seven in 10 U.S. businesses expect to buy and sell more
goods with China in the next 12 months and more companies are
discussing using China’s currency, the renminbi (RMB), to do so,
according to a new global survey commissioned by HSBC.
The HSBC survey, which explores the attitudes and use of
renminbi by decision makers at international companies in 14
markets, shows that sixty-five percent of U.S. businesses expect
their trade with China to increase over the next year, up from 55
percent in 2014 and higher than the global average of 54 percent.
Only business leaders in the UAE (71 percent) and Korea (68
percent) had higher expectations for increased trade with
China.
U.S. exports to China are expected to average nine percent a
year in the medium term, while imports from China are expected to
grow by an annual average of seven percent through 2020, according
to HSBC trade forecasts.
“As the opportunity to do business with China increases, U.S.
businesses can take advantage of using renminbi to deepen
relationships with suppliers, reach new suppliers, or reduce their
exposure to currency fluctuations,” said Kevin Quinn, Head of
Corporate Banking for HSBC in Upstate New York. “The benefits of
using renminbi to settle trade with the world’s biggest trading
nation and the second largest trading partner of the U.S., behind
Canada, can’t be overlooked.”
U.S. Businesses Considering RMB
More U.S. businesses are investigating the idea though not as
many as some of their global competitors. Close to a fifth of U.S.
management teams have had discussions on using the Chinese currency
as a potential opportunity or business enabler, in line with their
global peers in Australia, Canada, and the U.K, though behind
senior management teams in Singapore, Malaysia, Germany and the
UAE, where about a quarter of teams have done so, and well behind
teams in greater Asia.
Additionally, only 10 percent of U.S. businesses said they had
used the Chinese currency to settle cross border trade, compared
with the global average of 17 percent.
“China continues to establish reforms to reduce financial and
bureaucratic barriers to using the renminbi and decision makers are
increasingly anticipating its wider use in international
transactions over the longer term,” said Quinn.
In fact, 14 percent of U.S. businesses expect the Chinese
currency to be a fully internationally traded currency like the
dollar or euro in the next five years. Additionally, 35 percent of
Chinese businesses said they are using RMB to settle trade up from
33 percent in 2014, while 60 percent of those said they expect the
level of their RMB cross-border business to increase in the next 12
months, up from 44 percent in 2014. Late last year, the renminbi
also became the fifth most-used currency for global payments,
according to data from SWIFT.
“If they don’t already, U.S. businesses should set up the
infrastructure to be ready to use renminbi,” Quinn said. “It’s a
growing opportunity.”
U.S. Small Businesses Embracing Renminbi
For U.S. businesses that have taken the renminbi plunge, small
businesses are embracing renminbi more than large or middle market
companies. Twelve percent of U.S. small businesses said they had
used renminbi to settle trade in the last 12 months, compared to
nine percent of large or middle market companies. However, in the
future, more large U.S. companies (26 percent) are planning to use
RMB than small businesses (nine percent).
For its 2015 survey, HSBC polled more than 1,600 decision-makers
from Australia, Brazil, Canada, mainland China, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, the UAE, the
U.K. and the U.S. who represent companies that conduct
international business with or from China.
For more information on renminbi, please visit HSBC Global
Connections here.
Follow the conversation on Twitter @HSBC_US or
#MadeForTrade.
Notes to Editors
About the RMB Survey
HSBC commissioned Nielsen to conduct a market survey of 1,610
international companies that currently do business with Mainland
China or are a business in Mainland China that imports/exports
outside of the region. The survey was in field between 7 January
and 12 February 2015, and was undertaken to understand clients’
attitudes towards using RMB, reasons of using / not using RMB for
trade and investment activities, as well as other insights they can
offer about the RMB. The research surveyed international businesses
in Australia (n=100), China (n=200), Germany (n=100), Hong Kong
(n=200), Singapore (n=100), the UK (n=100), the USA (n=106), Canada
(n=100), Taiwan (n=100), France (n=101), the UAE (n=100), Malaysia
(n=103), Brazil (n+100) and Korea (n=100). Of the companies
surveyed, approximately 50% had an annual sales turnover between of
US$3M-50M, 40% had a turnover of US$50M-500M and 10% had an annual
sales turnover above US$500M. N=100 (statistical standard error +/-
9.8%), N=50 (statistical standard error +/- 13.86%), N=30
(statistical standard error +/- 17.98%). (Copyright © 2015,
The Nielsen Company)"
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