The First Quarter Performance Of Textile And Garment Enterprises In Shandong, Zhejiang And Other Places Is Not Ideal

In the first quarter of this year, Fujian Shishi office exported 4639 batches of textiles and clothing, US $230.17 million, down 12.4% and 8.1% respectively year-on-year, showing a trend of insufficient export growth momentum.

Shandong Yantai Export Textile clothing 70% ~ 80% of the products are exported to Japan, which has been the main market for Yantai textile and garment export. In the first quarter of this year, Shandong Yantai inspection and Quarantine Bureau inspected and exported 3601 batches of Japanese textile and clothing products with a value of US $99.731 million, a decrease of 6.56% and 3.21% respectively over the same period of last year.

Zhang Handong, director of the international economic and Trade Research Center of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce, said that the current situation faced by Zhejiang foreign trade enterprises is more severe than in 2008. "On the one hand, Zhejiang's brand competitiveness has not been formed, on the other hand, the demographic dividend has been exhausted, and the price competitiveness of Zhejiang is inferior to that of Southeast Asian countries. In the short term, Zhejiang will have to face the embarrassing situation that the high is not equal to the low."

According to Liu Yanwei, director of the Information Department of the textile industry chamber of Commerce of China International Chamber of Commerce, in January and February this year, National Textiles Clothing exports were all negative growth, of which the export volume in February was the lowest in recent years, and rebounded in March. In the whole first quarter, textile and clothing exports totaled 50 billion US dollars, a year-on-year growth of 2.9%, a sharp decline compared with the past.

According to Fujian Province Textile clothing At the beginning of last year, the demand of European textile enterprises decreased by 30% compared with that of the European Union, leading to a decrease in the demand of European textile enterprises.

In order to reduce at the same time, many enterprises in Quanzhou cost has increased. "The rise in the price of raw materials and raw materials, especially in the textile and petrochemical industries, has a direct impact on the rise in the prices of raw materials and raw materials, especially in the textile and apparel industries." For example, a pair of cotton shoes used to cost about 8-10 yuan, but now it costs 18-20 yuan. The cost price rises sharply, but the price can't go up. In addition, workers generally require a minimum wage of 2000-2500 yuan, and the labor cost increases rigidly. The exchange rate of the US dollar once fell below 6.29 yuan, and the appreciation of RMB also directly increased export costs.

At a regular press conference held by the Ministry of Commerce on April 17 to report on the operation of China's commercial work in the first quarter of 2012, Shen Danyang, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, said that the rapid rise in factor costs since 2011 has reduced the export competitiveness of some of China's products, especially the export of labor-intensive products, Products exported to China's traditional competitive markets such as Europe and the United States have been transferred to Southeast Asia and other regions.

From the point of view of the first quarter, although the trend is not good enough. China's textile and clothing exports in March finally reversed the situation of double decline in textile and clothing exports in the first two months. From January to March, clothing exports reached 29.57 billion US dollars, an increase of 3.9%; textile exports reached 20.44 billion US dollars, an increase of 1.4%. Before that, China's clothing and textile exports fell by 2.5% and 2.6% respectively from January to February.

Xu Yingxin, assistant president of China Textile Industry Federation, believes that in the second half of this year, the export of the whole clothing industry is expected to improve, and hopes for the economic recovery of European and American markets and the recovery of consumption index. Chen Cangsong, Secretary General of Fujian textile and garment export base chamber of Commerce, also believes that April is the autumn and winter clothing ordering period in European and American markets, and the textile and garment industry is optimistic about the export situation after April. It is expected that the first half of this year will still be difficult, and the second half will be improved. Take Fujian as an example, the export of textile and garment industry is expected to maintain a growth rate of 15% in the whole year.

However, Xu Yingxin also reminded, "one of the major problems to be noted is that even though the market is recovering, due to the rising domestic production costs, the profit level of enterprises is extremely low, and the loss has become a common phenomenon in the industry."