In The First Half Of 2010, Wenzhou'S Footwear Export Products Showed Five Bright Spots.

August 18th, the first half of 2010, Fujian inspection and quarantine bureau area export footwear value of $3 billion 35 million, an increase of 20.9%, an increase of 14% compared with the same period in 2008, creating the highest level of footwear exports.

Especially welcome, footwear.

First, the export proportion of leading enterprises has increased.

In the first half of this year, a total of 59 footwear enterprises exported over 10 million US dollars, of which 2 were over 50 million dollars.

The export value of these 59 footwear enterprises accounted for 38.2% of the total export value, an increase of 9.1 percentage points over the same period in 2009.

Two, the ability of product research and development is stronger.

Gradually highlighting the Fuzhou region

The three is the higher average export unit price.

The average export price of footwear has risen from 2.597 US dollars / double in 2008 to 2.725 US dollars / pairs in 2009. In the first half of this year, the total import and export volume of the country reached 13549 billion US dollars, up 43.1% from the same period last year, of which 705 billion 100 million US dollars in exports increased by 35.2%, imports 649 billion 800 million US dollars, increased by 52.7%, and trade reached a margin of 55 billion 300 million US dollars, down by 42.5%.

Compared with the same period in 2008, import volume increased by 9.8% in the first half, and imports and exports increased by 14.5% and 5.8% respectively.

In the first half of this year, it rose to $2.983 / double.

This also reflects the development of footwear products in Fujian in the direction of high quality and high value added.

Three factors affecting Guangdong's footwear exports

Guangzhou customs 15 issued a statistical data show that in the first half of this year, Guangdong exported more than 2 billion 100 million pairs of shoes, worth $5 billion 600 million, up 28% and 17% respectively over the same period of the previous year.

Among them, exports to Panama and India grew most rapidly, reaching 4 and 8 respectively.

At present, the United States, ASEAN and the EU are still the main market for Guangdong shoe exports.

In the first half of June this year, Guangdong exported nearly 500 million pairs of shoes to the United States, an increase of 9%; ASEAN's more than 400 million pairs increased by 1.1 times; the EU's more than 200 million pairs increased by 24%; the total exports of the above-mentioned three markets accounted for 6 of the total volume of Guangdong shoe exports in the same period.

Over the same period, 150 million pairs of exports to Panama increased by 40%, and 84 million 920 thousand pairs of exports to India increased by 79.6%.

In addition, Hongkong exports 110 million pairs, an increase of 12.1%.

Customs said that the demand for emerging markets such as ASEAN will have a positive impact on the export of Guangdong's shoes, but it will still be negatively affected by three factors in the future.

First, the rise of protectionism in the international trade leaves great uncertainty in the recovery of exports.

The two is the rising price of upstream materials of footwear products, increasing the production cost of export enterprises.

Three, a new round of appreciation of RMB will further increase export pressure.

Five highlights of Wenzhou's footwear exports

The appreciation of the renminbi and the EU anti-dumping have left many export oriented shoe companies at a loss. However, under the premise of economic recovery, many shoe companies are showing signs of improvement. As a major pillar industry in Wenzhou, the footwear industry has increased significantly in the first half of this year.

In the first 6 months of this year, according to the Wenzhou inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Wenzhou's footwear exports totaled 46873 batches, 363 million pairs, and 1 billion 689 million dollars. The batch, quantity and amount increased by 36.22%, 35.38% and 36.81% respectively.

Last year, thanks to the double blow of gray customs clearance and currency depreciation, Wenzhou shoe enterprises exported more than half of this year's impressive results.

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There are five major highlights: first, the total number of export shoe enterprises has been increasing continuously, from 867 in the same period last year to 935 at present, and three or forty enterprises have resumed or increased their exports every month, especially in June, 53 new enterprises were added in May than in May. Two, the export growth of large enterprises was very fast, and the number of export footwear enterprises with 30 percent of export volume had achieved positive growth.

Exports from the main export markets of the European Union, the United States, Croatia, South Africa and Japan all maintained a good momentum of development. Four, the export of leather shoes was significantly warmer.

In the first half of the year, the export of leather shoes increased year-on-year, the increase was basically around 30%, and the number of export enterprises rose slightly. The EU is still the largest export market for leather shoes in Wenzhou, and the five is that the safety shoes have been greatly increased by the economic rebound.

It is mainly used for safety footwear products such as industrial mining and other special uses. It can be seen as a barometer of the international economy.