Five Bottleneck Restraints Zhongshan'S Clothing Export

Zhongshan is the most famous leisure clothing capital in China. Its products are mostly cotton or cotton products.

The unit price of clothing rose by four or five to 90%.

Rising raw materials and cotton prices continue to climb

It is understood that this year cotton prices hit a new high of 140 years, the textile industry has become the most talked about topic.

At present, the rise of cotton prices has gradually been pmitted to downstream industries such as weaving, printing and dyeing, clothing and so on.

As the end of the supply chain, it is difficult for garment manufacturers to reduce fabric prices, and foreign merchants can not completely digest the cost of raw material price increase, so their situation is the most difficult.

Zhongshan is the most famous leisure clothing capital in the country. Its products are mostly made of cotton or cotton products, and the impact of enterprises is more serious.

The owner of a garment enterprise in the triangle town sighed, "I have been making clothes for thirty years, and I haven't seen cotton prices skyrocketing like this. Now the cloth price per week is one yuan more than that of last week. The price of the whole garment is at least four or five percent higher, and the order is fixed in the early stage. The customer will not raise the unit price at all."

Exchange rate forces companies to issue short lists.

"During this period, factories are working overtime day and night to catch up with them. Sooner or later, the amount of money paid by American customers is paid earlier, and the risk of depreciation of the US dollar is reduced by one point."

Five the inspection director of a clothing company in Gui Shan said that the boss looked at the foreign exchange table every day and said, "wake up and lose profits."

Faced with the unpredictability of exchange rate changes, exporters have to reluctantly abandon long lists and short lists, so that although each batch of orders can temporarily change prices, in the long run, they will lose a lot of large and high-end customers who tend to sign bills. At the same time, because they are all urgent, the export period is usually very fast, and employees often have to work overtime to complete the product quality.

The shortage of labour is still serious.

More than 90% enterprises visited the Zhongshan inspection and Quarantine Bureau this year, reflecting the difficulty of recruiting workers.

A considerable number of production personnel have shrunk by 1/3, and some have shrunk even to 3/4.

Labor shortage is an inevitable phenomenon of economic development to a certain stage. When the per capita GDP reaches US $3000, the low cost economic expansion mode, which relies on cheap labor force simply cannot be sustained. It is urgent to change the mode of economic development.

In recent years, some production enterprises in Zhongshan have taken precautions against the shortage of labour.

First, through the reasonable arrangement of production processes and work processes, the production cycle of products can be shortened by one-piece process mode, and the single process mode can solve the difficulties of skilled workers.

Two, the equipment is more convenient to use more automation equipment, such as automatic sweater knitting machine, casual pants production process, automatic cutting system and so on, so that production efficiency can be improved and manpower is reduced.

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Product quality and safety control needs to be improved.

From 1 to October this year, the Zhongshan inspection and Quarantine Bureau found that the unqualified export clothing was mainly due to unqualified labels, excessive pH value, excessive formaldehyde, unqualified children's belts and small parts.

Zhongshan garments are mainly exported to the European Union, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. These big trading countries occupy 70% of Zhongshan's clothing export trade. These countries have clear rules for labeling labels on clothing. If labels fail to be qualified, they may be judged cheating or even fined abroad.

The safety performance of children's belts and small parts is the main concern of Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries. The Chinese children's wear has been recalled by many developed countries such as Europe, the United States, Japan and other developed countries because of unqualified rope and defective parts.

Export garment enterprises repeatedly hit the wall.

Countries in order to protect their own interests, through technical barriers, green barriers and other new means of international trade barriers, the export countries of textiles and clothing restrictions.

For example, the European Union's "azo dye ban", "blue dye ban", "REACH directive" and so on, have strict regulations on azo dyes, formaldehyde, nickel and cadmium of textile materials.

For example, the consumer product safety improvement act of the United States strictly limits the lead content of children exported to the United States should not exceed 300ppm.

Because of the high level of science and technology in Europe and the United States, they are technically monopolized, and the standards laid down are based on their own production and technological level.

If we want to meet the requirements, we must invest more funds and manpower to develop green products, and virtually increase the cost of products.

In addition, the clothing export enterprises in Zhongshan mostly deal with processing trade or OEM processing. The quality of products is mostly controlled by customers or middle traders. Enterprises do not know much about the standard laws and regulations of exporting countries, and are slow to respond to changes.

Industrial upgrading can no longer be expedient.

After years of rising resources, raw materials and manpower costs, the garment industry has become a small profit industry. It is difficult to have the corresponding space to digest the continuous appreciation of RMB, the soaring raw materials and the pressure brought by the rising costs.

In this regard, the industry believes that the remaining production enterprises must speed up industrial restructuring, increase product upgrading efforts, and strive to negotiate the right on the international market, accompanied by the ability to adjust product prices with the market.

For the purpose of malicious speculation and driving up the price of raw materials, the government should introduce relevant measures to curb the control and ensure the healthy development of the industry and the interests of producers and traders.

After years of development, Zhongshan's textile and garment industry has a relatively complete industrial chain with strong competitiveness, especially the competitive advantage of jeans.

Therefore, Zhongshan textile enterprises should fully understand their own advantages, adjust their product structure, enhance their own quality and ability, speed up industrial upgrading, strive to grasp the initiative and discourse power in the textile and garment trade, and realize the steady development of the industry.

Industrial upgrading is a long and painful process. The government and enterprises must have long-term plans for this, and no more expediency can be done.