Textile And Apparel Trade Barriers In Europe, America And East Africa Are Diversified.

Although the bottom of the trade bulletin of 2009 has already been released, the situation of China's textile and garment industry in 2010 is still not optimistic.

Analyzing the situation of last year's briefing, the key points of trade bulletin from the main trade countries in 2010 are different.

With the end of the textile quota era and the introduction of the industry revitalization policy under the financial crisis, the export of textile and clothing products has gradually recovered. After the pition of the trough in 2009, what kind of "wonderful" will the technical barriers to trade of the textile and apparel industry in 2010 become?

North America: focus on consumer product safety and energy consumption

From the North American announcement in 2009, especially the industry distribution in the United States, in 2009, when a technical trade bulletin under textile category was not released, the United States will continue to enact relevant laws and regulations around consumer products in 2010.

This year, special trade technology measures may be introduced in children's clothing and printing and dyeing.

In addition, in the field of furniture sundries, the standards and procedures approved by the third party conformity assessment bodies have been stipulated. Therefore, enterprises concerned with home textile production must pay attention to this trend, and should pay attention to verification in upstream supplier selection and printing and dyeing.

At the same time, it is emphasized that the trend of consumer goods safety is becoming more and more obvious.

In 2009, China's textile and garment exports rebounded, while some trade friction incidents and product recall incidents also increased.

So in 2010, we may see two words frequently: the US Consumer Product Safety Commission and the European Union RAPEX system (the fast notification system for non consumer goods), along with the three words that are likely to be destroyed, recalled and fined.

In recent years, a large number of funds in Europe and the United States are supporting relevant research projects such as risk assessment and safety assessment of consumer goods. Therefore, it is conceivable that if the evaluation report issued by the European Union RAPEX system will be more and more complete in the future, there will be more and more bulletin about consumer product safety.

The G/TBT/N/USA/486 bulletin also indicates a trend of consumer product safety registration.

The bulletin relates to durable children's products. It notifications a final consumer product safety regulation issued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission of the United States. It requires every durable infant product manufacturer to have a postage paid consumer registration form for each product, and keep a record of the consumer's products to the manufacturer, and keep the manufacturer's permanent address and contact information, model name and model, and the date of production of each product.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is drawing up the implementation requirements of the act.

Such consumption registration requirements may be extended to other products in 2010.

Experts remind us that most of the notification issued by the US in 2009 is in the field of energy consumption and equipment manufacturing, which reflects the spinning and clothing industry. We can predict that in the field of textile industry in 2010, North America may introduce some technical standards on textile machinery.

Therefore, environmental protection textiles and textile equipment and other related enterprises must pay attention to the trend of the United States, while studying and developing, pay more attention to the trend of manufacturing in the United States and Germany.

EU and China's homogenization competition

The European Union will continue to dominate the trend of advanced textile products and environmental fashion standards.

In addition, in terms of technical regulations, the EU continues to carry forward the "broad and profound" style. It will explain successively a series of detailed appendices on how to push forward each stage, when the Member States will be pformed, and what areas of racial exclusion.

In the second half of 2009, the notification of EU's spinning and weaving service was confirmed by the previous addendum.

In 2009, a new working framework for EU EUP directive was also issued.

Therefore, in 2010, textile enterprises engaged in trade with the European Union must not ignore the addendum content of the notification, and do not miss the special circumstances and new exceptions at the first time.

Even the US technical trade bulletin is now in the same direction. Every year, the announcement of addendum accounts for more than 25% of all the notifications.

Experts remind: in the past, many people regard "Addendum" as a general errata like publication, which is irrelevant to the main body.

However, in today's bulletin, the rules for the promotion of various regulations are usually clearer and clearer in the addendum.

This is especially evident in the notification from the European Union.

In addition, Eastern Europe, which has always been less exposed to technology trade, has become increasingly competitive with China's textile exports, thanks to its geographical advantages.

East Africa is a big cake.

The bulletin from Africa in 2009 reflects the structural opportunities of the market.

We might as well focus on Kenya first.

Over the past few years, apart from the cancellation of quotas, Kenya has also been worth considering about the problem of secondhand clothing dumping.

In Kenya's domestic stores, Chinese clothing is popular with good quality and low price.

But in Kenya and many other African countries, ordinary people earn less. People seldom go to shops to buy brand-new clothes. 80% of them only go to the open market to buy second-hand clothes and shoes.

Kenya's second-hand clothing imported from European countries, mainly Germany, is the main source of low income clothing.

This has led to a strong domestic call for the quota system in Kenya to protect its textile industry and ensure the employment rate of its textile workers. On the other hand, those who are benefiting from the second-hand textile trade in China are very supportive of the "boom" of free trade in their business.

From Kenya's 2009 briefing, the 2010 trend will also be to gradually improve textile standards and strengthen technical trade measures to balance the dumping of second-hand clothing in the country and protect its domestic consumers.

Kenya has a relatively good foundation in Africa, such as Uganda as its largest commodity exporter, and the regulation of the Kenya market will surely drive the market of three East African countries to follow.

Experts remind: with the continuous development of African countries and the gradual standardization of the market, when the developed countries' "second-hand trash" is no longer flooded with the market, changing the market share pattern of the African market has become the biggest opportunity for all countries.

In addition, it is worth noting that in 2010, the three East African communities, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, will gradually merge into federated countries, using a unified currency and constitution.

Therefore, in 2010, under the trend that technology trade has gradually promoted the standardization of the market, the "spinning" enterprises can pay attention to the business opportunities of the African section.

Korea's strong spinning and clothing standard area

South Korea specialized in the field of textiles and clothing TBT bulletin has always been less. In 2006~2007, there were only three basic standards related to household related industrial products, such as paper products, glasses and more than ten kinds of household goods and daily necessities.

In 2008, South Korea did not announce a notice in the field of textile and clothing. It remained quiet until the second half of 2009. 4 reports were issued by the Republic of Korea.

The standard is specific to the old shoes in the shoes model and the drawstring in infant clothing.

Experts remind: the export of Korean textile enterprises in 2010, we must be careful of South Korea in the field of textile and clothing standards gradually stronger trend.

In particular, China's trade with South Korea is paying attention to the detection of the content of textiles and textile accessories in a number of fashion oriented and costumes.

In addition, from the trend of Korean TBT in recent years, we can see that the Korean textile and clothing industry has begun to strengthen standards in technology.

With the recovery of the economy and with the momentum of technological development over the years, in 2010, China's high-grade textile products must be more mindful of the Korean market when competing in the EU market, and at the same time, they should take more experience in Korea's upstream construction or enhance their cooperation in upstream technology.

Asian countries make efforts to textile power

In 2009, the bulletin of the textile and clothing industry from the Asian Forum reflects the "technological dream" of the textile industry in Asia, reflecting the efforts made by Asian countries that have always played the role of "processing plants" from textile giants to textile powers.

China, India and Thailand, the largest textile manufacturers in the world, are mostly in Asia. However, manufacturing factories, which have been mainly manufacturing profits, will remain committed to brand and technology development.

Moreover, after the ~2009 financial crisis in 2007 and the subtle changes in the world trade pattern, the Asian countries are constantly promoting the development of "technological dreams".

Experts remind us that in recent years, South Korea has been highly forward-looking in technology, and has been increasing investment in science and technology, pforming production mode from labor-intensive to capital intensive, pferring the production of low-grade varieties to overseas, and producing high-grade and high value-added textile and clothing products in the country.

While building up high-end brands to avoid low price competition, we should constantly enhance the upstream construction, formulate the strategic planning of clothing, and focus on textile materials, dyeing and clothing design as the three major strategic departments.

This is a good reference for our country.

We should pay attention to the new trend of economic alliance.

The 2009 announcement was more obvious than the 2008 Announcement.

In 2010, especially after the subtle changes in the world trade pattern brought about by the financial crisis, there will be more economic cooperation organizations emerging and growing, and more African countries are applying for the East African community, such as the Andean common body, ASEAN, and even more and more unnoticed areas.

Experts remind us that in addition to tracking our export targets abroad, the new trend in their coalition needs attention.

Because this is likely to become the next step of the camp, and more valuable business will find clues in those communities.

In dealing with it, we should not be lucky enough to expect the prophet to adjust production as soon as possible.