Mexico Has Become The Fifth Largest Source Of Imports Of American Clothing, Compared With Bangladesh.

The head of the chamber of Commerce of Mexico garment manufacturers said Mexico exceeded Bangladesh in the first half of this year and became the fifth largest source of imports of American clothing. The top four were China, Vietnam, South Korea and Malaysia.

Mexico Clothing output value The world's thirteenth ranking, a total of about 8500 enterprises, 85% for small or Micro enterprise The total number of employed persons exceeds 300 thousand.

The United States is the most important market for clothing products in Mexico. Most of the 94% of trousers, shirts, bedding and curtains produced by Mexico are exported to the US market.

At present, manufacturing workers earn about 10 dollars per hour, while Mexico has 2.5 to 2.75 dollars, while Vietnam has only 40 cents.

The head of the chamber of Commerce said that Mexico The apparel industry has stepped out of the stage of processing exports by relying on cheap labor force, adopting international standards, focusing on value-added and fashion products. According to the requirements of the American consumer and clothing sales industry, the clothing supply cycle is only 3 weeks.

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In recent years, Vietnam's clothing and textile exports have seen a rapid growth. Textile and garment industry is the main force for Vietnam to earn foreign exchange, and more than 80% of the total output of textile garments is exported. Vietnam's textile and footwear exports increased significantly this year. By the end of August, the export of textiles was about $15 billion, an increase of 11% over the same period, and 8 billion 100 million US dollars for footwear, an increase of 21% over the same period. Vietnam's Ministry of industry and trade recently proposed Vietnam's export target of 181 billion 500 million US dollars in 2016, an increase of 10% over 2015. The total export volume is expected to reach US $160 billion in 2015.

Cooperation is mainly reflected in two aspects. First, due to the lack of a complete industrial chain, Southeast Asian countries, including Vietnam, have become the main export destinations for textile materials such as yarns and fabrics in China. It shows that the mainland is fully using comparative advantage to fill the gap between the above countries in the upstream of the textile industry. The other side is reflected in the transfer of domestic textile industry. In recent years, due to Vietnam's cheap labor and preferential investment policies, many labour intensive industries in the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta, such as garment factories, especially the Hong Kong funded Taiwan funded enterprises, have regarded Vietnam as an ideal place for industrial transfer.

Recently, reporters in Nanjing West Road, Shanghai, including ZARA, H&M, UNIQLO, Martha department store and other fast fashion brand stores found that clothing labels showed that products from ASEAN and other places increased significantly, especially indicating that the origin of Vietnam is more. The most obvious is Gap, which is mostly manufactured by Vietnamese manufacturers, more than 80% of the products.

Yang Yixin, a well-known media giant and traveller, told the Chinese clothing network reporter that in some big shopping malls and supermarkets in North America, there are many clothes in ASEAN and other ASEAN countries. The quality and price are good, and the consumers of Kampuchea are also many.

An unnamed Guangdong garment manufacturer who had been produced by Gap foundry said in an interview with China apparel network reporter that because of the continuous increase of labor costs in China, Gap's orders went to Vietnam many years ago, and some Chinese enterprises in Vietnam built factories to produce garments for well-known fast fashion brands, not only that, but also raw materials were purchased from Vietnam.

The personage introduces to China clothing net reporter, at present, the Pearl River Delta textile and garment manufacturing industry survival situation is getting worse and worse, the survival of the foundries is extremely difficult. Along with the increase of workers' wages, the profit is thin to the end, especially the real economic situation is not ideal. A large number of stored clothing can not be wholesale. Only through various promotions such as Taobao and other electronic business platform, can it sell at a low price.

In the eyes of experts, the rising cost of China's manufacturing industry is the main reason for fast fashion brands to accelerate the layout of Southeast Asia.

According to the data obtained by China apparel network, according to the survey data of Japan's trade promotion agency in 2014, the average employer's salary burden (including social security) of Chinese enterprises amounted to 684 US dollars, Thailand was 593 dollars, India was 302 dollars, Vietnam, Burma, Kampuchea and Bangladesh were 249, 172, 157 and 132 dollars respectively. Labor costs in China are 2.5-5 times higher than those in Vietnam and Bangladesh.