Foreign Trade Concerns: Data Analysis Of Import And Export Of Leather Industry In The Past Year

In 2021, facing the impact of the global epidemic that has not yet dissipated, China's manufacturing industry and foreign trade import and export business show strong resilience. According to the data released by the General Administration of customs, in 2021, China's total export value was 3.36 trillion US dollars, the total import and export value was 2.69 trillion US dollars, and the total import and export value reached 6.05 trillion US dollars. After eight years of reaching 4 trillion US dollars for the first time in 2013, China has stepped over 5 trillion US dollars and 6 trillion US dollars, reaching a historical high.

In 2021, the leather industry has made a new step towards the beginning of the 14th five year plan. Despite the spread of the epidemic, rising raw leather prices, tight power supply, soaring shipping prices and other difficulties, the overall import and export operation of the leather industry in 2021 will be stable and upward, with an increase exceeding the expectation.

The import and export trade is very active and the market environment is getting better

In 2021, the total import and export value of 27 major categories of China's leather industry was 103.316 billion US dollars, which was a leap growth of 31.56% compared with the value of 78.534 billion US dollars in 2020. In 2021, the total export value of leather industry reached 84.921 billion US dollars, a substantial increase of 32.1% compared with 2020, and the total import value reached 18.395 billion US dollars, an increase of 29.2% compared with 2020, The import and export trade surplus of leather industry was further expanded, reaching 66.526 billion US dollars, an increase of 32.9% compared with the US $50.05 billion in 2020, which has made remarkable achievements.

Among the 27 categories, 14 categories achieved trade surplus, namely, the tanned sheepskin or lambskin without wool and its body leather with tariff code No. 4105, recycled leather with leather or leather fiber as the basic component, 4202 suitcase, suitcase, small handbag, briefcase, schoolbag, 4203 leather or recycled leather clothing and accessories, 4205 other products of leather or recycled leather, 4303 clothes, clothing accessories and other articles made of fur, 4304 artificial fur and its products, waterproof shoes and boots of 6401 rubber or plastic outsoles and uppers, 6402 other footwear of rubber or plastic outsoles and uppers, 6403 rubber, plastic, leather or recycled leather outsoles and leather uppers, 6404 rubber, plastic, leather or recycled leather insoles and leather uppers Leather outsoles, shoes and boots with textile material uppers, 6405 other shoes and shoes, 6406 shoe parts, 8453 raw leather, leather processing, tanning or processing machinery, leather industry is still an important field for China to earn foreign exchange.

Compared with the downturn of the market in 2020, the export of leather industry in 2021 shows a trend of rapid development and extremely active. In terms of export situation, there are 20 categories of products to achieve double growth in both quantity and amount, accounting for 74% of the total category. In 2020, only two product categories have achieved both volume and price increases. The 20 categories of products are as follows:

(1) extract of vegetable tannins, tannins and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives of tariff code 3201;

(2) No. 3202 organic synthetic tanning, inorganic tanning and tanning preparation;

(3) the tanned cattle hide, horse skin and its body leather with no fur of tariff No. 4104;

(4) further processed cattle leather of tariff No. 4107 after tanning or semi nitration treatment;

(No. 415) tanned or semi tanned lambs;

(6) fur free leather from other animals tanned or semi nitrated under Tariff No. 4113;

(7) oil tanned leather, patent leather and laminated patent leather of tariff No. 4114;

(8) recycled leather with leather or leather fiber as the basic component under tariff code 4115;

(9) trunk, suitcase, small handbag, briefcase, briefcase, schoolbag, etc;

(10) clothing and accessories of leather or recycled leather, tariff code 4203;

(11) other products of leather or recycled leather under tariff code 4205;

(12) no sewn or sewn tanned fur of tariff code No. 4302;

(13) artificial fur and its products with tariff code No. 4304;

(14) waterproof footwear with rubber or plastic outsoles and uppers of tariff code No. 6401;

(15) other footwear of rubber or plastic outsoles and uppers of tariff code No. 6402;

(16) footwear with rubber, plastic, leather or recycled leather outsoles and leather uppers with tariff code No. 6403;

(17) footwear with rubber, plastic and leather outsoles and textile uppers with tariff code No. 6404;

(18) other footwear with tariff code No. 6405;

(19) shoe parts of tariff code 6406;

(20) machine for the treatment, tanning or processing of hides and leathers under tariff code 8453.

From the perspective of import situation, there are 15 categories of products to achieve the double growth of import quantity and amount, accounting for 55.6% of the total category. In 2020, only 6 tariff codes have achieved double growth in import quantity and amount. The 15 categories are as follows:

(1) extract of vegetable tannins, tannins and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives of tariff code 3201;

(2) No. 3202 organic synthetic tanning, inorganic tanning and tanning preparation;

(3) the tanned cattle hide, horse skin and its body leather with no fur of tariff No. 4104;

(4) tanned sheepskin or lambskin without wool and its body leather (tariff No. 4105);

No. 4105 or semi tanned cattle leather was further processed;

(6) fur free leather from other animals tanned or semi nitrated under Tariff No. 4113;

(7) recycled leather with leather or leather fiber as the basic component under tariff code 4115;

(8) trunk, suitcase, small handbag, briefcase, briefcase, schoolbag, etc;

(9) clothing and accessories of leather or recycled leather, tariff code 4203;

(10) other products of leather or recycled leather of tariff code 4205;

(11) no sewn or sewn tanned fur of tariff code No. 4302;

(12) fur clothing, accessories and other articles of tariff code 4303;

(13) artificial fur and its products with tariff code No. 4304;

(14) waterproof footwear with rubber or plastic outsoles and uppers of tariff code No. 6401;

(15) tariff code 6405, other shoes and boots.

In general, the import and export scale of leather industry rebounded rapidly in 2021, mainly due to the effective control of the epidemic situation by the Chinese government, the enterprises taking the lead to resume production and their own strong production capacity. Leather enterprises make full use of good production conditions, actively adjust the industrial layout, and become an important source of production in the international consumer market, It effectively ensures the normal operation of the international supply chain, and at the same time, enterprises are still full of confidence in market consumption.