Japan'S Garment Industry Is Moving Faster To Southeast Asian Countries.

In 2012, in Japan, imports from China accounted for less than 80% for the first time in nearly 10 years, from Japan's a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/DESIGN/designer/index.asp" > clothing > /a > import volume from Japan and other countries.

For garment related enterprises with fierce price competition, the rise of labor costs in China's garment factories is a heavy burden on suppliers and purchasers.

The proportion of ASEAN, which has relatively low labor costs, has reached a record high of 12.5%.

Most of the clothing in the Japanese retail market comes from China's imports, and now is undergoing major changes.

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< p > according to the data of Japan's < a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_h.asp" > textile > /a > Importers Association, imports of products in Japan account for about 96% of the total market volume.

According to the trade data survey conducted by the association, imports of Japanese clothing in 2012 amounted to 2 trillion and 598 billion 500 million yen, an increase of 3.2% over 2011.

Among them, the amount of clothing imported from China amounted to 2 trillion and 31 billion 300 million yen, accounting for 78.2% of total imports.

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< p > relative to the decline in the amount of clothing imported from China, Japan's imports from other ASEAN regions are increasing.

Among them, imports from Indonesia increased by 60.9% compared with the same period last year, while imports from Vietnam increased by 18.2%.

In addition, the labor cost of garment factories in Bangladesh and Burma is only about 1/4 of China, and the production and processing of Japanese enterprises in Bangladesh and Burma are increasing.

For example, honeys, a Japanese clothing brand, opened its own factory in Burma last spring to produce trousers.

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< p > generally speaking, Japanese clothing and clothing chain manufacturers do not set up production factories overseas, in many cases, through the textile business department of the business department, they use local capital investment foundry factories to produce.

Itou Tada business is Japan's largest garment production order company.

According to Itochu commercial, Japanese companies are now increasing in low price clothing production, looking for production bases in low wage ASEAN.

The company's underwear, uniforms and other practical clothing for Japan are accelerating the pfer of clothing processing to Vietnam.

The proportion of processing and manufacturing in China has dropped rapidly from 75% in 2009 to 25% in 2012.

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The Japanese Cross company, "P > > a href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_f.asp "> women's wear > /a > brand Earth Music & ecology, will add an OEM factory in Thailand and Indonesia.

In 2012, the company had allocated the proportion of processing and manufacturing to the total business in China from 95% to 60%.

There are also different opinions in the Japanese industry. Due to the technical guidance of the Japanese business community for many years in China, the overall quality of the OEM enterprises in China is relatively high, and the sewing technology is proficient. The efficiency of sewing production and processing in Southeast Asian countries is still very low.

Itochu believes that the production of apparel orders with much decoration and processing time will still be produced in China with advanced equipment and high manual quality.

For general products, the trend of dispersed production base will continue in the future.

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