Major Markets For Textile And Garment Exports Are Facing Fierce Competition From ASEAN Countries.

Exports increased by 12.9 percentage points. Among them, exports of textiles amounted to 600 million US dollars, an increase of 13.9%, and clothing exports of US $1 billion 700 million, an increase of 1.1%. Affected by rising domestic cotton prices and low cost competition from ASEAN and other ASEAN countries, Japan has been saving Japan for the first 5 months of this year. Textile and clothing The export environment is tightening.

In recent years, some ASEAN countries such as Vietnam and China are gradually taking advantage of the low cost advantage to occupy the market share of China's low-end textile and apparel products. Vietnam has used the EPA agreement signed with Japan (from Vietnam and other ASEAN countries to enjoy zero tariff treatment on Japanese exports) to enhance its price competitiveness. Vietnam's textile and garment exports to Vietnam increased by 23% in the first 7 months of this year. On the other hand, domestic cotton prices have been rising since the end of last year, and domestic cotton (17395235.00,1.37%) prices have reached the highest level in 15 years in July. The profit space of enterprises is further compressed.

The continuous heavy rainfall since August did not bring a hint of coolness to the hot cotton prices. Current cotton The price has reached 18500 yuan / ton, breaking the highest domestic level in 2003. Cotton price 18000 yuan / ton, 85% yuan higher than the 10000 yuan / ton of the beginning of last year.

The rainy weather this summer is considered the main inducement of the current price increase. "Prolonged rainy weather will definitely have a significant impact on cotton production." Dong Yuchang, President of the cotton association of Xian County, told reporters that the key period of cotton flowering and Bolling production is now. The short time of flooding and sunshine is very harmful to cotton growth.

"From the current situation, the area affected by the cotton field has reached 300 thousand acres, and it has been severely damaged by 100 thousand mu, especially in the counties and counties." Ma Junkai, Secretary General of the cotton association, said. It is estimated that the direct economic loss of cotton will be 1 billion 39 million yuan.

"Rainfall in early September of last year caused a 20% reduction in cotton production in the city, and the heavy rainfall this time will lead to a reduction of more than 20% of cotton yield this year." Ma Junkai worried that at present, cotton farmers' psychological price of seed cotton is rising as cotton production decreases. "This year's new seed cotton purchase price per catty is expected to reach about 5 yuan." Dong Yuchang said that in July this year, the purchase price of seed cotton has reached a maximum of 4.2 yuan / Jin.

The decline of cotton planting area in China is also one of the factors that uplink cotton prices. Ma Junkai told reporters that the cotton planting area was 2 million 900 thousand mu the year before last, which dropped to 2 million 300 thousand mu last year, only 1 million 500 thousand mu this year. The cotton planting area of our province has been reduced by about 5% this year. "Compared with grain and other cash crops, the yield of cotton is less, and the subsidy of grain and other crops is much higher than that of cotton." According to statistics, with the increasing price of wheat, corn, rice and other grain crops, the planting area of cotton has been decreasing, and the planting area has decreased by 14 million mu in two years.

Cotton planting area has been reduced, but domestic demand for cotton has been increasing. Ma Junkai said that cotton production in China was about 6 million 800 thousand tons last year, and the demand was between 10 million and 10 million 500 thousand tons. According to customs and customs data, in the first 7 months of this year, the Port imported 739 thousand tons of cotton, valued at $1 billion 310 million, and the average import price was $1776 per ton. Among them, the average import price reached 1912 US dollars / ton in July, up 44.1% compared with the same period last year, rising 3.5% compared with the same period, and continuing to refresh the highest level since January 2003.

Reporters in the Knitting wholesale market - Zhijiang shopping mall visited to understand that with the high price of cotton, socks most of the price rise. A surnamed dealer told reporters that some socks had gone up a few cents, and some even had gone up by a dollar.

Zhang Qingwei, Deputy Secretary General of the textile and garment industry association, is also chairman of the company. He told reporters that cotton accounts for about 40% of the general clothing cost. The rise in cotton prices has already had a great impact, which will directly affect the production costs of enterprises, leading to a decline in profits and a decline in the competitiveness of enterprises.

"Cotton prices rose by about 40%, extending to the downstream textile and clothing industry prices will rise by 15%-20%." Ma Junkai said that under such circumstances, the equipment and backward technology SMEs will be very unhappy in their life. "This is also a good opportunity to eliminate backward production capacity, reduce and upgrade." Zhang Qingwei said that the company is developing products with high technology content to deal with high cotton prices, reduce dependence on cotton and increase the consumption of non cotton fibers and eco-friendly fibers. It is understood that some enterprises in the province such as Hua Yuan technology, Hengfeng textile, and Baoding textile have increased the application and product development of new fibers such as Tencel, modal, milk fiber, bamboo fiber, corn fiber and cashmere, silk and other animal fibers, and the proportion of non cotton fibers increased gradually.