Shaoxing'S Technical Barriers Restrict &Nbsp; The Profit Margins Of Garment Enterprises Are Under Pressure.

According to Shaoxing customs statistics, from 1 to March, County textiles and clothing The total export volume was 1 billion 699 million US dollars, an increase of 23.8% over the same period last year. In March, the export of textiles and clothing was US $520 million, an increase of 77.2% over the same period last year, an increase of 80% over February.

"This is a good start, and about 25% is a steady growth rate of the current comprehensive recovery of the economy." County Business Bureau analysis of the relevant personages. At the same time, the correlation forecasting by experts Under the influence of unfavorable factors such as high cotton prices, rising costs, RMB appreciation and international environmental turbulence, the pressure on Shaoxing textile industry to export steadily and steadily has increased.

Main export market growth rate down

According to statistics, in the first quarter, Shaoxing's textile and apparel exports to the EU amounted to US $240 million, an increase of 23.3% over the same period, but the growth rate has been reduced. In the same period, exports to the US amounted to US $120 million, an increase of 10.7% over the same period last year, and the growth rate was 69 percentage points lower than that of last year. Shaoxing's textile and apparel exports to ASEAN and other emerging markets have increased, but the growth rate has also dropped. In the first 3 months, Shaoxing's textile and apparel exports to ASEAN amounted to US $200 million, an increase of 62% over the same period last year. Last year was the first year when the "China ASEAN Free Trade Area" was built. China's textile and garment exports grew faster, but exports to ASEAN markets were general.

"The steady recovery of the global economy and National macro policy control In the first quarter, the textile and garment industry of Shaoxing county showed a steady growth trend, but the phenomenon of growth decline in the US and Europe is noteworthy. Shaoxing customs official said.

Technical barriers become a heart disease

Since last year, there are many trade remedy cases launched for China's textile and clothing products. "Recall" has become the main form of trade friction between developed countries and China, which involves many textile and garment enterprises in Shaoxing.

A head of children's clothing production enterprises in the county said that the main export markets of the products were Europe, the United States, Europe and other countries, which had always had high requirements for the safety of children's clothing, and technical barriers to trade were constantly emerging. Some of them are demanding and enterprises are very helpless. The future prospects are hard to predict. "There are new trends in the current trade barriers, and technical barriers have become the hearts of many enterprises." Shaoxing customs officials said.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce, in 2010, China's textile and garment industry suffered 40 cases related to anti-dumping, and the quantity was basically the same as that in 2009. The situation of trade remedy cases such as "two guarantees and one insurance" has slowed down, and technical barriers to trade have become a "resistance force" for developed countries to restrain the export of Chinese textile products. Last year, the recall Committee of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission reported 37 textile and clothing bulletin in China, an increase of 54.2% over the same period. In the same year, the EU issued 304 recall reports on China's textile and clothing, an increase of 42.7% over the same period. In addition, since last December, the EU REACH regulations have added 8 textile related highly concerned substances. With the deepening of the implementation process of the regulations, China's technical trade restrictions on the export of European textile products will be more stringent.

The profit space is under constant pressure.

In the first quarter of this year, the problem of raw material price rise which troubled industry development last year has not yet been alleviated, especially cotton prices are rising rapidly, and the price of PET staple fiber has also risen significantly under its influence and drive. Due to the lag of price spanmission, the price of products is difficult to rise synchronously, and the profits of enterprises are decreasing.

At the same time, some enterprises have difficulties in recruiting workers and large mobility. Lack of qualified personnel will restrict the healthy development of textile enterprises. In addition, the cost advantages of Vietnam, India, Bangladesh and other neighboring countries were reflected. Some European and American clothing orders began to shift to the surrounding new textile industrial areas. In interviews with some textile and garment exporting enterprises, these difficulties are particularly prominent. "This year, the company's labor costs increase, cotton yarn prices, appreciation of the renminbi, these three difficulties are the most serious problems at present." Many textile exporters say that the price of labour has increased by 30% over the past year, and that the company's orders are also losing, mainly to Vietnam, Bangladesh and India.