Multiple Factors Make It Difficult To Reduce The Price Of Cotton Textiles

After more than a year of "roller coaster", cotton prices are still at a low level. In the two months from September 27 to November 29 this year, the 328 index of cotton prices fell all the way from 20002 to 19052.

However, many consumers feel that although cotton The price is much lower than last year, but Cotton textiles Of Price Instead of falling in response to the call, quite a number of them rose.

The price of cotton products has risen

"After a set of four piece cotton bed set is discounted, the price is 628 yuan. Even if a temporary store membership card is issued, this set of bed products will cost 553 yuan, which is still a middle and low price. It is said that cotton is cheap now, but why not reduce the price of these pure cotton products?" In front of the home counter on the sixth floor of the shopping shop in the provincial capital Ginza Mall, Ms. Chen is always eight or nine hundred yuan Even the price of thousands of yuan of bedding is very incomprehensible.

At the end of November, the reporter visited many shopping malls and specialty stores in the provincial capital and found that the recent decline in cotton prices did not drive cotton textiles to follow suit. In addition, the prices of some brands of towels, bath towels, bedding, thermal underwear, cotton padded clothes and other cotton products have also increased to varying degrees compared with previous years.

According to the guide of a thermal underwear store in Xinbai Square, the price of a set of underwear of this brand was about 100 yuan last year, and this year the price of underwear of the same grade has risen to between 130 yuan and 150 yuan. In the household goods sales area of Beiguo Shopping Mall, a home textile brand guide said that since October last year, the price of pure cotton products in bed has risen by 10% to 20%.

The data from the statistics department also confirmed the consumers' feelings. Gao Lixia from the consumer price department of the Shijiazhuang survey team said that in October, clothing prices in the city rose 6.8% year on year, affecting the overall price level by about 0.7 percentage points, of which clothing prices rose 8.7% year on year. The data of Hebei Survey Team of the National Bureau of Statistics also showed that in October, the prices of clothing materials and autumn and winter clothing in the province rose month on month, driving the CPI total index up by about 0.29 percentage points in October.

　 It is difficult to reduce prices due to factors such as high cotton prices

The price of cotton has declined, but why has the price of cotton textiles not declined? "Cotton and other raw materials only account for 25% of the price of clothing products, which is the main reason why the overall price of the clothing market is difficult to decline. It is the rise of energy, workers' wages, rent and other costs." Sun Weilun, president of the provincial textile and clothing industry association, analyzed. "Cotton processing and clothing production are cyclical, and the clothes sold now are made of cotton bought a few months ago, when the cotton price was still high," said the shopping guide of thermal underwear at Xinbai Square.

Gao Lixia said that since July 1 this year, on the basis of the substantial increase in the minimum wage last year, the minimum wage standard in Shijiazhuang has been adjusted again, and the adjustment is larger than last year, from 900 yuan to 1100 yuan, an increase of 22.2%. The increase in labor costs is a major factor in the rise in prices.

Zhao Gang, the boss of Baoding Xuanyu Towel Factory, said that the production cost of a towel mainly depends on the price of cotton thread, workers' wages, washing fees, electricity fees, taxes and other aspects. At present, fluctuations in the prices of workers' wages and washing fees have directly pushed up the price of cotton textiles. Among them, the increase in workers' wages has become the main factor. He said that compared with the average monthly wage of 2500 yuan last year, the minimum wage of workers this year is more than 3000 yuan. In addition, Zhao Gang said that although the cotton price is in a downward trend, the cotton thread used for production is purchased when the cotton price is at a high level.

The rise in housing rents is also a major driver of the rise in product prices. Ms. Wang is the owner of a clothing store in Qingyuan Street, the provincial capital. In her opinion, the business of cotton padded clothes this year is not easy to do, because the price is higher than in previous years, and the business in the store is much quieter. "The area of my small shop is less than 15 square meters. Last year, the rent was just over 2000 yuan per month. This year, it rose to 2700 yuan. One year, the rent alone would have to pay more than 6000 yuan." Ms. Wang said.