Us Footwear Buyers Raise Prices To Protect Quality Factories In China

Although American buyers have higher safety and quality standards for clothing, shoes and decorations and other fashion products, Chinese suppliers are more gratified by the fact that the US customers who have always chewed up their prices are at last loose, raising prices and maintaining some quality factories.

According to the 21 news of Taiwan Textile Development Association, Macys, Sears/Kmart, Target, Kohls, JC Penney, Guess, Victorias Secret, Saks and other more than 40 large garment retailers in the United States have just reached an agreement with the environmental health center of Oakland, California, USA. Since December 1st this year, new standards have been implemented for materials such as handbags and accessories.

In addition, many retailers agreed to expand the standard coverage.

If retailers violate these regulations, they may be fined up to 12500 dollars.

Some enterprises believe that this is good news for Chinese enterprises. Under high penalties, they will force American purchasers to raise the price of orders in order to achieve quality standards.

Wang Yisheng, director of Hongkong Lotte enterprise, which is engaged in children's clothing and supplies, said to the first Financial Daily yesterday that American buyers are demanding higher and higher prices, but they have been on the price for a long time.

Recently, new changes have taken place. Many American customers have begun to compromise on price, and the bargaining space of Chinese factories has increased a bit.

"The biggest test we face is not the relative standard, but the cost pressure.

The rising cost of raw materials, labor and so on should be pferred from the supplier to the purchaser and to the consumers in the normal supply chain.

But in fact, many American purchasers are reluctant to raise the terminal selling price, while Chinese manufacturers bear the cost pressure alone. My friends and my neighbors have not increased 10 Fen to American customers in recent years. Customers will pfer orders to other low quoted enterprises in recent years, "Wang Yisheng said." the profit of the factory is getting thinner and thinner, so it is easy to have problems. Especially after the recent Foxconn incident, American buyers began to no longer emphasize the cheap, and began to worry about whether the factory could operate normally.

Wang Yi said, with the rapid development of the domestic market, domestic and foreign buyers compete for quality production and supply channels, which will also force overseas buyers to keep quality factories and products through price increases.

Zhao Mingqiao, a doctor of Guangdong product quality supervision and inspection center, said that some factories purchase relatively inexpensive raw materials for reducing production costs, which is very easy to encounter quality problems and return.

In developed countries, the demand for product technology and quality is getting higher and higher, especially for children's products, such as lead and cadmium.

In fact, most Chinese enterprises can achieve the standard, but the cost will be correspondingly raised.

At present, due to more stringent checks in Europe and the United States, Chinese enterprises' awareness of safety standards has been significantly improved. About 90% of the export enterprises are involved in testing, but the initiative to participate in the testing of products sold in the domestic market needs to be improved.