Textile And Garment Enterprises Look Forward To Stable Foreign Trade Rules To Deal With Two Rare Exports

"Our factory is half open and stopped, and many of its peers have been closed one after another. I don't know if the next one will be myself." Jiangsu Wuxi a textile export business executives to reporters sigh.

This year, the textile and garment industry has encountered an unprecedented severe test. It is understood that in Jiangsu Jianhu County, more than 70 textile and garment enterprises, about 70% of the enterprises stop and stop, 20% of the enterprises are closed down, and only 10% of the enterprises maintain normal production.

stay Textile and clothing In the winter of September 12th, Premier Wen Jiabao chaired a State Council executive meeting to study eight major policies and measures to promote the steady growth of foreign trade, including textile and garment industry as a major support. Shen Danyang, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, said last week that the relevant rules would be issued before the national day.

It is understood that the national textile industry in August Clothing export The amount was $24 billion 600 million, a decrease of 3.34% compared to the same period last year, which has declined for two consecutive months. In the face of industry predicament, textile and garment enterprises are expecting steady benefits from the "eight countries" of steady foreign trade, and on the other hand, they are embarking on a difficult road of transformation.

Textile and garment exports "two consecutive falls"

Jiang Fan, deputy director of the Ministry of foreign trade of the Ministry of Commerce, said at a seminar recently that the export of Chinese textile and clothing has reached a turning point.

This year, the number of textile and garment exports has dropped significantly. Before August, clothing exports totaled 99 billion 480 million US dollars, down 0.7%, and textile exports were US $62 billion 510 million, down 0.7%.

Zhou Haijiang, President of the red bean group, is a banner figure in the deep tillage industry for many years. He told reporters: "the demand is decreasing, the cost is rising and the price is falling. Now the pressure on the entire Chinese textile and clothing is very large and the situation is grim."

Since 2012, the textile industry has continued to slow down since last year due to external demand, slowing domestic demand and increasing domestic and foreign cotton spreads.

Wang Qian, chief analyst of the first textile network, said that textile and garment exports decreased by 3.3% in August, and the two consecutive month of decline occurred only during the financial crisis of 2008. "This slide has a clear difference from the decline in 2008. The last slide came fast and fell sharply, but it resumed in half a year. This slide is a blunt knife cut, and the duration will be longer and the situation is more serious. Enterprises should prepare for the long winter."

Wang Qian analysis shows that the main reasons for the decline of textile and garment export trend are two aspects: one is the rising cost of raw materials, land, labor and exchange rate; the other is the decline in external demand. "Nearly 5 years, textile Clothing enterprise The total cost has increased by 100%, but the terminal price has not been raised.

Shanghai's head of textile and garment enterprises with an annual sales volume of 500 million yuan told the daily economic news: "this year is the most difficult year since I worked. Now that inventory has accounted for 1/3 of annual sales, the decline in profits is positive, and the annual sales decline is good."

Looking forward to the "eight nation" relief of foreign trade

In September 12th, the Executive Council of the State Council examined and determined eight policy measures to promote the steady growth of foreign trade. It will adjust the tax refund policy for export enterprises, and the relevant rules will be announced by the Ministry of Commerce and other ministries.

The Ministry of Commerce has analyzed 4 characteristics of textile and clothing export this year: first, the volume reduction; two, the processing trade has dropped substantially; three, the export of cotton products has dropped greatly, and the varieties have dropped by 7%~8%; four, the export provinces are all decreasing, and the drop is 1%~5%.

"Eight countries in foreign trade" have solved 4 problems: first, solve the problems of enterprise funds, such as speeding up the export tax rebate and increasing bank loans; two, making the cost of small and medium-sized enterprises alleviate; third, in terms of efficiency, there has been a great improvement, and the convenience of declaration has been provided; fourth, increasing confidence is very important, such as expanding the coverage of export credit insurance, which means that small and medium-sized enterprises dare not take orders, and now dare to take them. Zhou Haijiang told reporters.

Among the eight measures, the most important thing is to expedite the progress of export tax rebates and ensure timely tax rebates, which will help ease the problem of cash flow in textile and garment enterprises. In addition, it also puts forward the direction of financing, especially for small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises. "Lack of orders is the primary problem, but lack of funds is also the most worrying problem for enterprises at present. There has been a lot of closure because of the problem of capital chain. " The head of a printing and dyeing processing enterprise in Shaoxing Binhai Industrial Area said that the processing enterprises often encountered millions of dollars worth of goods, and the goods could not be collected in time, and the enterprises would be in a difficult situation of capital operation. Therefore, it is hoped that the policy of expanding the scale of financing in the "eight countries" can be implemented to enterprises at an early date.

Independent innovation is the foundation for enterprises to survive

The rules have not yet been formally promulgated and have been regarded as timely rain by enterprises. However, many industry observers have warned that short-term policy support can not solve all the problems, and can not make the textile and garment export industry as a representative of the low-end manufacturing industry get rid of the quagmire completely. Jiang Fan also believes that textile enterprises should enhance their ability to create brands and marketing through their own efforts to ease the current difficulties.

In the eight day of foreign trade, second days later, Li Xueyong, governor of Jiangsu Province, invited the heads of 10 textile and garment enterprises of the red bean group to discuss the countermeasures. Zhou Haijiang took part in the forum and made a speech.

"We should see that the current international pressure mainly comes from two aspects: first, the European and American markets are in constant downturn, and it is difficult to reverse them for a long time; two, the low cost of labor in Southeast Asia, and the pattern of the whole industry transfer requires textile and garment enterprises to strengthen their transformation." Zhou Haijiang said.

Earlier, Adidas and Nike had taken measures to close the Chinese production line, and foreign investment fled to the textile and garment enterprises. Zhou Haijiang believes that foreign capital attaches great importance to the maximization of interests. Once there is no other market in a market, it will not hesitate to choose to leave. In addition to adopting measures such as tax reduction and protection of labor rights and interests, it is more important to cultivate a large number of independent brands with core technology so as to have the right of speech and pricing in the market economy, and thus have the dominant power to divide the market.

"My proposal is to create" two self "enterprises, one is to create their own brands, the other is to create independent innovation enterprises, enhance the technological content and quality, and digest the cost," said the "two". Zhou Haijiang said.