China'S Textile And Clothing Exports Are Facing Many Disadvantages. The Prospects For The US Market Are Generally Optimistic.

For exporting countries, appropriate technical trade measures will help to improve their technological level and product advantages.

However, because it does not violate the principle of non discriminatory, fair trade and pparency of WTO organizations, it has more operational space. As a barrier to trade barriers, the difficulty of export enterprises will increase exponentially.

"Technical trade measures have become the second major factors that affect the export of our products after the exchange rate. The comprehensive response of China's technical trade measures needs to be strengthened."

Wei Chuanzhong, President of the China Inspection and Quarantine Association, made such an early warning.

Recent trends show that under the backdrop of slow global economic recovery, the export market diversification that most of China's export enterprises had hoped for was becoming narrower because of increasingly fierce competition with emerging industries such as "one belt and one road".

For China's foreign trade industry, with the help of technology and product upgrading to break through the path, and constantly improve the leading edge of its technology, the force has been formed.

Technical barriers to trade (hereinafter referred to as TBT) are becoming the main obstacles for Chinese enterprises to export.

The survey data released by AQSIQ recently showed that 36.1% of export enterprises were affected by this obstacle in varying degrees. In 2014, China's export trade suffered a direct loss of US $75 billion 520 million, an increase of US $9 billion 320 million over the same period last year, accounting for 3.2% of the total export volume of the same period.

Once encountering technical barriers to trade, the loss of export enterprises is mainly manifested as "loss of orders", followed by "demoted treatment", and other forms of loss include return of goods and port processing.

In terms of industry, the products that are more affected are electromechanical instruments, chemical minerals, textile shoes and hats, toy furniture, rubber and plastic leather, etc.

In addition to anti-dumping and refund, there are two main foreign TBT means: first, to set up strict and complex technical standards; two, to introduce import restrictions.

For example, the new trade law adopted by the Indonesian parliament in 2014 allowed the government to restrict imports and exports through tariff and non-tariff barriers.

For this reason, Indonesia first restricted the import of large quantities of alloy steel, and from next year, all mobile phones imported to Indonesia must also be equipped with their domestic components.

According to geographical division, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shandong, Tianjin, Jiangsu and other large provinces of China's foreign trade have "caught up one after another".

Among them, Guangdong accounts for about 1/3 of the total exports. Due to the impact of 40% enterprises in 2014, the total amount of direct loss has reached 23 billion 730 million US dollars, which has become the most serious loss province.

In response to this wave

Guo Chu, a researcher at the Institute of international economics, Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences, thinks there are several new features:

First, in the trend of trade protectionism, various non-tariff trade barriers emerge in an endless stream, especially in terms of technology, patents and green environmental barriers. The two is the marked increase in technical barriers to trade.

All major economies have taken new industries such as information technology, biotechnology, energy conservation, environmental protection and new energy as new economic growth. They attempt to rely on capital and key technologies to occupy the future industrial development system. The three is that the scope of technical barriers to trade is becoming more and more extensive, and some new developing countries have begun to set up technical barriers to trade from the protection of their own industries.

A white paper entitled "annual report on technical trade measures in Guangdong" (2015), jointly produced by the Guangdong Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau and the commerce department, has been provided with a series of corroboration:

In 2014, WTO members submitted 2239 TBT notifications, of which 180 were announced by the United States, an increase of 74% over the same period.

The white paper said, "the announcement of technical regulations issued by the United States will not only have a direct impact on China's exports to the United States, but will also lead to similar mandatory requirements from other countries, so as to form a Domino effect."

The total number of TBT notifications is visible: over half of the notifications are submitted by members of the Middle East, South America, the United States and the Caribbean.

"The dynamics of emerging countries and regions deserve attention, for example, the Middle East is the area where the overall number of notifications has increased the most in recent years. The TBT Bulletin of countries and regions along the belt and road" has also been greatly improved in recent years.

The white paper also says.

"With China's own labor force,

More and more industries began to pfer to other developing countries, such as ASEAN and the countries along the belt and road. Their industrial goods in the past mainly relied on imports, and now they have become processing export countries.

In order to protect their industries and markets, there are bound to be some relatively high technical standards and regulations, which in turn restrict the import of Chinese products.

Chen Quan, director of the Guangdong WTO/TBT advisory and Research Center, explained recently to the "finance and economics" reporter.

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Since the beginning of this year, China's textile and clothing exports are facing many unfavorable factors, and the overall trend is decreasing.

Keep growing.

In the first three quarters, China's textile and apparel exports to the United States totaled $36 billion 400 million, an increase of 8.3%, benefiting from the gradual recovery of the US domestic economy and the strong performance of the apparel retail market.

The head of the China Textile Import and Export Chamber of Commerce believes that the United States is still the main driving force for the growth of China's textile and clothing export in the coming period from the 118th days before the three Canton Fair.

The chamber of Commerce said, "the stability and good performance of the US market" has become the consensus of the textile enterprises participating in the Canton Fair. Most of the enterprises surveyed said that the export situation was more severe this year, but exports to the US have maintained steady growth and are generally optimistic about the US market prospect.