A Review Of Sino US Textile And Apparel Trade Relations In Recent International Situations

In January 1, 2009, China ushered in the quota free era in the US market, but according to the available information, the US side has been ready to deal with Chinese textiles in the quota free era.

Export measures.

In the grim situation of the financial crisis has not yet subsided, China's exports of textiles and clothing in the United States showed signs of atrophy. Nevertheless, China remained in the United States in 2008.

The status of the first big supplier.

The current situation of the domestic textile and garment industry in the United States, due to the competitive disadvantage of the labor force, the production and garment processing links of low-end textiles have been pferred to Asian countries and countries that have concluded free trade agreements with the United States.

According to the US Department of labor statistics,

The number of employed persons dropped from about 1 million 200 thousand in 2000 to 541 thousand in 2007.

The adjustment of industrial structure will inevitably lead to the increase of its import substitution products, and the trade data in the United States also show that the dependence on foreign trade of certain kinds of textiles and garments in the United States has increased year by year.

As shown in Table 1, the proportion of I/P is increasing year by year, while the DMS ratio is decreasing year by year.

The strong purchasing power of American citizens and the increasing dependence of foreign trade on the US industrial restructuring have made the United States the largest consumer market and the largest importer of textiles and clothing in the world. Its textile and clothing imports account for about 20% of the global textile and clothing trade.

The United States is the largest in the world.

Products importing country.

According to the United States Customs statistics, in 2005, the United States imported textile and apparel up to $89 billion 207 million, an increase of 7.08% compared to the same period, and the import of clothing was 68 billion 715 million US dollars, up 6.09% from the same period.

Since 1994, China has become the largest producer and exporter of textile and garment products in the world.

According to our customs statistics, in 2005, the total export volume of China's textile and clothing products reached 117 billion 500 million US dollars, while the United States was the main export market of China's textile and clothing products.

As the world's largest importer of textile and garment products and the world's largest producer and exporter of textile and garment products, the Sino US trade friction between textile and clothing is a cause for concern.

The export status of China's textile and apparel products to the United States in 2005, in the months after the abolition of the global textile quota system, China's exports to the US and EU textile and clothing products surged.

In those days, China's textile and apparel exports to the United States amounted to US $19 billion 576 million, up 66.09% over the same period last year.

Among them, clothing was $13 billion 566 million, an increase of 76% compared with the same period last year, and textiles grew by 47.38% over the same period last year.

The amount of textile and clothing exported to the United States accounts for about 17% of the total export volume of similar products in China.

In September 2005, four organizations such as the National Textile Organization Association and the United States manufacturing trade action alliance jointly proposed to the US textile agreement Implementation Committee CITA to continue to take protective measures against the import of 9 categories of textile and clothing products in China.

According to the statement, 1-7 months in 2005, China's exports of textiles and clothing to the United States increased sharply.

The total number of imports of the 7 categories of clothing items that continued to implement protective measures was 850 million, with an average increase of 627%.

Among them, the fastest growth of imports was cotton shirts and cotton trousers, with an increase of 1287% and 14227% respectively, 227 million and 205 million. The largest share of the US import market was bra products, reaching 43%.

In addition, China's textile exports to the United States increased the fastest growth rate in the 620 category of other man-made filament fabrics, reaching 44 million 280 thousand and 300 square meters, an increase of 1145%, accounting for 16% of the US import market.

In addition, other categories of clothing, such as knitted shirts, underwear, man-made fiber shirts and trousers, increased by more than 300%.

The textiles and clothing office of the US Department of Commerce, in its import and export statistics report on textiles and clothing trade balance released in December 2005 and April 2006, divides imported textile and clothing products into four categories: yarns, fabrics, finished products and garments.

According to the report, the four categories of products exported to the United States are: US $14 billion 205 million in 2003, $17 billion 801 million in 2004 and $25 billion 739 million in 2005.

Among them, the amount of clothing products were 9 billion 192 million US dollars, 11 billion 304 million US dollars and 17 billion 497 million US dollars respectively.

But the latest statistics show that China's total exports of clothing and textiles to the United States have begun to decline.

No matter the export statistics of our customs or the statistics of the office of textile and clothing of the US Department of Commerce, it shows that in 2005, China's textile and clothing products exported to the United States increased by a large margin.

According to the statistics of the Department of textiles and clothing of the US Department of Commerce, the proportion of the four types of cotton products in the United States decreased by 21.5% and 19.5% in 2004, and the import volume of these garments increased by more than 5 times that of local production. Especially the cotton shirts and blouses, their imports were 10.57 times that of local production, while the proportion of local production in the United States was only 14.9% and 16.4%.

However, in 2000, the share remained at around 30%.

The statistics released by the office show that the proportion of most domestic textile and apparel products in the United States is decreasing year by year, especially the local production of all kinds of garments.

This is also the general trend of the development of the textile and garment industry in the United States.

But the man-made fiber products produced locally in the United States still have a great advantage.

In the above 90 categories of statistics, 50% of the products in the United States account for more than 50% of the products. 29 of the products are mainly made of man-made fibres, and the following are 14 types of products: 225, 85.2%, 226, 90.3%, 227, 91.2%, 91.2%, 227, and so on;