China'S Textile And Garment Enterprises Increase Imports Of Cotton Yarn

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Since 2012, the gap between domestic and foreign cotton prices has been expanding, and the maximum price difference has reached 6000 yuan / ton.

In 2013, the spread of prices began to narrow, but remained at around 4000 yuan / ton.

Due to the limitation of import a target= "_blank" href= "http://www.91se91.com/" > strong > cotton < /strong > /a > quota, the domestic cotton price is not only high, but also more than Chen cotton, which is difficult to meet the needs of production, and domestic spinning and weaving enterprises are chasing cotton into the mouth, resulting in a large increase in cotton imports in the first quarter of the year.

Industry analysts said that because of the sustainability of inverted cotton prices, cotton yarn imports in recent years also showed a gradual upward trend.

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< p > in January this year, China imported 181 thousand and 900 tons of cotton yarn, an increase of 8.56%, an increase of 153.82% over the same period last year. Although the import of cotton yarn has dropped in February, it is still at a high level in recent years, between 100 thousand ~12 tons.

In March, cotton yarn imported 199427 tons, exported 51612 tons, and net import was at a historical high.

Imports increased by 138.54% compared with February, an increase of 94.55% over the same period last year, an increase of 61.04% over the same period last year, < /p >

< p > customs data show that in 2012, Pakistan was the largest source country of China's cotton yarn imports. Last year, the number of imports from Pakistan cotton yarn was 555 thousand tons, an increase of 87% over the same period last year. The import volume was 1 billion 600 million US dollars, an increase of 55% over the same period last year.

In addition to Pakistan, India ranked the second place last year to import cotton yarn imports from China. Last year, the total import of cotton yarn from India was 306 thousand tons, an increase of 123% over the same period last year. The import volume was 1 billion 10 million US dollars, up 94.4% over the same period last year.

According to the data of India textile department, India exported more than 22.2 tons of cotton yarn to China in September of 2012, an increase of 78 thousand tons compared with the same period last year.

In the first quarter of this year, India has surpassed Pakistan to become the largest importer of cotton yarn in China, with an import volume of US $470 million, an increase of 117%.

India has a larger cotton resource advantage. According to the India Cotton Association (CAI), the supply of cotton in 2012/13 is 41 million 290 thousand packs, the domestic cotton consumption is expected to be 27 million 500 thousand packages, the excess cotton is 14 million 420 thousand packs, and the self sufficiency can also be used for export.

From 2008 to now, the spot price of cotton in India has been lower than the spot price of cotton in China.

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< p > in addition, at the Tenth China International a target= "_blank" href= "http://www.91se91.com/" > strong > textile > /strong > /a > yarn (Chun Xia) exhibition recently, the exhibitors of India and Pakistan textile enterprises accounted for about 90% of the overseas ginseng exhibitors.

It is understood that at the exhibition, the cotton yarn enterprises of the two countries have brought a variety of cotton yarn products to catch up with the Chinese market.

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