Before May, The Pearl River Delta Export Footwear Enterprises Reduced By Nearly Half.

The trend of footwear exports to large enterprises is obvious.

Reporters recently learned from the Guangzhou customs that 1 to May this year, Guangdong exported 1 billion 350 million pairs of shoes, 15.5% lower than the same period last year (the same below), with an export value of 3 billion 970 million US dollars, an increase of 9.4%.

Among them, as the most intensive production of footwear in Guangdong, 940 million pairs of shoes exported to the Pearl River Delta region dropped by 25.7%.

It is worth noting that in the 1 to May this year, the footwear export enterprises in the Pearl River Delta region were sharply reduced by 2331 compared with the same period last year. Nearly half of the PRD footwear export enterprises have no export performance this year.

Export shoe enterprises to reduce nearly half of the performance is still growing

After more than 20 years of accumulation, the footwear industry in Guangdong has made great progress and has become a global footwear trading center and shoe making material supply center.

According to statistics, Guangdong's footwear exports in 2001 amounted to 4 billion 340 million US dollars, and in 2007, it has surged to 9 billion 200 million US dollars. Over the past 6 years, the number of shoes has doubled, and the annual growth rate has reached 13.3%.

Since 2007, many factors, such as the export tax rebate reduction, the adjustment of processing trade policy, the continuous appreciation of RMB, the rapid rise of labor costs, and the increasingly fierce competition in the footwear industry, have led to a number of shoe factories with "insufficient internal force" starting to move beyond the PRD region or to withdraw from the shoemaking industry.

According to Guangzhou customs statistics, from 1 to May, there were 2428 footwear export enterprises in the Pearl River Delta region, a sharp decrease of 2331 over the same period last year. Nearly half of the PRD footwear export enterprises have no export performance this year.

But at the same time, the export performance of footwear enterprises in the Pearl River Delta region has not been affected too much. The export value of 1 to May was 3 billion 460 million US dollars, and the 8% increase was still achieved.

Among them, there were 4 enterprises with export shoes exceeding 100 million US dollars, an increase of 2 over the same period last year, and 62 enterprises with export shoes exceeding US $10 million, an increase of 7 over the same period last year. The 62 enterprises exported 2 billion 40 million dollars from 1 to May, with a sharp increase of 16.5%, and exports accounted for 59% of the same period in the Pearl River Delta. Footwear exports to the Pearl River Delta were concentrated on large enterprises.

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Data show that the average price of footwear exports in the PRD has increased, but the added value of exports still needs further improvement.

Although the number of footwear exported to the Pearl River Delta in the first 25.7% years of this year has dropped by a sharp drop of 25.7%, due to the continuous appreciation of RMB, the rapid rise in labor costs and the sharp rise in raw material prices, the PRD footwear companies have also taken positive measures to improve product quality and added value. Therefore, the average export price of footwear exported to the Pearl River Delta region has shown a great growth this year.

From 1 to May, the footwear export price index of the Pearl River Delta was 1.4501 (1 in the same period last year), that is, the export price of footwear in the Pearl River Delta from 1 to May was 45% higher than that of the same period last year.

Industry warned that the EU anti-dumping measures against China will expire in October this year.

In June 9th, Vito Artioli, chairman of the Italy Footwear Association (ANCI), declared in Milan that the European footwear Federation has decided to extend to the European Union the extension of anti-dumping measures on leather shoes in China and Vietnam to 5 years. Although it has yet to decide whether to continue to impose anti-dumping duties on leather shoes exported to China, the PRD footwear enterprises should take precautions against them.