The Impact Of The TPP Agreement On China'S Textile And Clothing Trade Can Not Be Ignored.

In October 5, 2015, the p Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) announced a basic agreement in the US, including 12 countries including the United States, Japan, Australia and Vietnam. The TPP agreement covers 20 aspects of trade in goods, customs procedures, rules of origin, and regulatory standards.

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In the past 20 years, China's textile and garment exports to TPP member countries account for more than 35% of China's total exports to the world's textile and clothing, and TPP's textile industry in China has become a major exporter of clothing in the TPP countries.

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"Zero tariff" will significantly affect China's textile and clothing industry

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Among the provisions of the TPP, the most concerned clause is the "zero tariff" policy. TPP Member States will all import and export tariffs on textiles and clothing products from the region, while the original import tariffs on non member countries remain unchanged.

In the 1-8 month of 2015, the total export volume of China's textile and garment industry was US $184 billion 400 million, of which the largest share of the US and Japan exported to TPP member countries accounted for about 24% of the total export countries.

At present, Vietnam, one of the TPP members, is also a big exporter of textile and clothing. It is the second largest textile and garment importing country in the United States after China. In the future, its export tariffs will be reduced from an average of 17.5% to 0. Mexico, Malaysia and Peru are also the main exporters of textile and garment.

As the textile and clothing products have a high degree of mutual substitution, after the successful implementation of TPP, China's textile and clothing exports will inevitably be affected by the trade diversion effect generated by the TPP tariff relief, making the United States, Japan and other countries reduce the import of textile and clothing from China to increase the import of textiles and clothing from Vietnam and Mexico.

The origin rules of "yarn recognition" will reduce the competitiveness of China's textile and clothing trade.

According to the rules of origin of TPP "yarn recognition", all processes and raw materials of textile and apparel products of the member countries after starting from yarn must be carried out in TPP member countries before they can enjoy zero tariff preferences.

At present, about 50% of textile raw materials such as Vietnam and Malaysia rely on imports from China for export zero tariff treatment. After the implementation of the agreement, TPP members will choose to import raw materials such as cotton and yarn from member countries, thereby reducing or even stopping importing these products from China.

At present, a large part of China's textile and apparel trade is exporting intermediate products to other countries, such as raw materials and accessories. However, the "origin recognition rules" from the yarn have hindered this trade pattern to a certain extent, which makes China's textile and clothing products treated differently when exporting to TPP member countries, which affects the competitiveness of China's textile and clothing trade.

Green trade barriers will restrict the development of China's textile and clothing trade.

Environmental protection, intellectual property protection, labor and environmental standards are also an important part of the TPP agreement, which maximizes the degree of protection of the business interests of TPP member states.

Most of the TPP member countries have developed countries. Most of the member states have constantly increased their requirements for quality and safety in textile and clothing imports. Meanwhile, TPP has also established rules and regulations in the emerging trade areas such as cross-border e-commerce. Many of these areas also involve the textile and garment industry.

Due to the fact that there is a certain gap between China's textile and clothing product standards and international standards, there are also deficiencies in dealing with green trade barriers. Many enterprises are unable to meet international standards such as intellectual property protection, environmental management system and social responsibility. These green barriers will become an obstacle to China's textile and clothing trade and seriously restrict the development of China's textile and clothing trade.

Although the impact of TPP on China's textile and garment industry needs a process, the textile and garment industry is not a highly sophisticated industry, and it can be duplicated. The domestic textile and garment enterprises should establish a strong sense of crisis and actively respond to the impact of TPP in many ways.

First, we should actively adjust the industrial structure, enhance our own innovation capability, improve the technological content and pform the enterprises from the low end products to the high-end ones. Two, we should actively implement the strategy of "going out", enhance the layout of overseas production capacity, actively establish branches in Southeast Asia and other countries, and pform the "made in China" from the output of products to the export of technology and capital, and enhance the global competitiveness of enterprises. Three, we must make full use of the preferential policies of the free trade area agreement. At present, China has signed a free trade area agreement with several countries. Enterprises should actively utilize the policy of zero tariff preferences, preferential policies of origin and so on, and eliminate the influence of TPP and create more trade opportunities with the help of the national "one belt and one way" strategy.