"Carbon Tariffs": The Secret Pain Of Textile Exporting Countries

There is no doubt that China's textile and garment industry has long played the role of "polluters".

"Carbon tariffs" refer to high-energy consumption products.

At the end of June 2009, a "border adjustment tax" law imposed by the US House of Representatives passed the "carbon tariff" from 2020.

Obviously, these carbon tariff measures in developed countries are disguised trade protection measures. Under the guise of environmental protection, they sell sheep's heads and sell dog meat for trade protection.

Once carbon tariffs are widely adopted in developed countries, China is emerging.

China's textile and garment industry started late, and its technology content was not high. It was known by the world for its high pollution and high energy consumption.

According to the world bank's research report, if the carbon tariff is fully implemented, China will probably face an average tariff of 26% on the international market, and export volume may decline by 21%, which is extremely unfavorable for the development of the industry.

If every enterprise turns a blind eye to it, the pressure will become bigger and bigger.

The domestic garment industry should alarm loudly, attract high attention and make preparations for it sooner or later, otherwise the export cost of the surge in the future will be eroded like a monster.

China is a big clothing country, and its carbon emissions are amazing.

The Chinese government announced that by 2020, the carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP will be 40% to 45% lower than that in 2005, and this will be included as a binding index in the national economic and social development plan.

At present, China has become one of the countries with larger carbon emission rights in the world. However, the relevant parties and related enterprises are still not familiar with how to enter the international carbon trading market like Europe and America, which will not be conducive to the competitive advantage of the carbon trading market.

Impact on Industry

Most of China's textile and garment industry is mainly supported by chemical industry. Chemical fiber and chemical dyes have always played an important role. The low price of many products is also due to damage to the environment.

A research report shows that the total energy consumption of China's textile industry is roughly 4.84 tons of standard coal / ton fiber.

Among them, the clothing industry energy consumption is 1.05 tons of standard coal / ton clothing, weaving industry energy consumption is 0.95 tons of standard coal / ton fiber, printing and dyeing industry energy consumption is generally between 2.5 - 3.2 tons of standard coal / ton fiber, the average is 2.84 tons of standard coal / ton fiber, printing and dyeing industry accounts for about 58.7% of the whole industry energy, become the textile industry energy conservation reform focus.

Emission reduction in production links is something that textile and garment enterprises can do, and is also what they have been doing in recent years.

In addition, as China's traditional competitive industries, the advantages of the textile industry in international competition still exist, such as low labor costs and skilled technicians. Once the carbon tariffs are realized, the cost of Chinese products will increase and will face severe challenges.

The "carbon tariffs" sounded the alarm for Chinese enterprises.

Meanwhile, in the past ten years, the world's fiber production has increased by 22 million 40 thousand tons, of which China has increased by 12 million 770 thousand tons, accounting for 58%.

Because of the low labor intensity and the demand of industrial development in developing countries such as China, the global textile industry has been moving to developing countries such as China, which has also contributed to the rapid growth of China's fiber processing.

According to the statistics of the National Bureau of statistics, the total output of clothing in China is 40 billion 600 million in 2008. According to this figure, the total carbon emissions will be calculated, and the results will no doubt be amazing.

Therefore, carbon tariffs have an unprecedented impact on the garment industry. Some experts predict that the development of China's garment industry will be 10 years of rapid development in the next 10 years. From this perspective, Chinese textile and garment enterprises are faced with a rare golden development period in the past 20 years.

Once the carbon tariff is implemented, it will have a significant impact on the quantity of China's export products. China's clothing export industry will face severe challenges.

In fact, new trade protectionism such as "carbon tariffs" will not only have an impact on the export of China's textile and clothing, but will also pmit to the upstream textile raw materials, resulting in chain adverse reactions. Therefore, the future of Chinese garment export enterprises is worrying.

Enterprises should prepare for rainy day

Generally speaking, the "low carbon" economy is imperative. China has formulated corresponding measures for energy conservation and emission reduction in a timely manner to guide enterprises to carry out adjustment and reform.

In China, the old saying is called "take precautions" and we should be prepared early in the face of the new situation.

First, start with the fabric of clothing.

Xu Wenying, President of China Cotton Textile Industry Association, suggested cotton textile industry: encourage the development and application of differential fibers, functional fibers, composite yarns and new fabrics, and encourage the production of high-grade cotton and many kinds of fibers blended, new composite yarns and fabrics.

The clothing industry that uses chemical fiber fabrics as raw material has a high carbon emission. If we want to reduce carbon emissions, we should use silk, cotton cloth and linen as the main raw materials.

From the industry itself, the brand clothing companies such as the seven wolves, nine Mu Wang, tiger capital, Qipai and four Hailong are more inclined to environmental protection and low energy consumption fabrics in the choice of textile fabrics.

Through 5 years of research and development, Jiangsu Dong Du textile has greatly reduced pollutant emissions. At the same time, it has adjusted the product mix and improved the competitiveness of enterprises. It has become the first enterprise in China to use vegetable dyes on knitted fabrics. At present, the new technology has been declared a national patent.

Second, technological innovation is imminent.

In export trade, small and medium-sized textile enterprises in China generally suffer from low technology added value and lack of independent innovation.

In the face of higher entry standards in foreign markets, the adaptability of export products needs to be improved.

In terms of textile and garment industry, technological innovation has become a top priority in developing low-carbon economy.

The Lihua Garment Group of Hongkong in Shenzhen became an experimenter of low carbon emissions as early as 2008.

A one-time payment of 3 million yuan for technological pformation, after pformation, even if it does not calculate the export advantage after becoming a low carbon manufacturing plant, only in energy and raw material consumption, 1 years can also save nearly 2 million 800 thousand yuan of funds.

A highly socially responsible enterprise with technological innovation will be the main force in the pformation and upgrading of the textile and garment industry chain, and will also be the last winner.

In the future international clothing market, to create a low carbon economy, "made in China" will be a golden card.

Third, speed up industrial upgrading and institutional innovation.

Experts point out that in the long run, levying carbon tax is conducive to the adjustment of China's energy structure.

Textile industry is the trend of the times. It must be a breakthrough revolution. In the face of the arrival of the low carbon era, it is necessary to speed up industrial upgrading and innovate the system. We must change the scale and development mode of the domestic textile industry.

Take Wuhan Textile Leader, Ai Di Group as an example.

After many years of competition with Europe and the United States, Ai Group has strong immunity. The key is to change pressure into power, concentrate on solving main problems, speed up industrial upgrading, promote rational allocation of resources, and thus reduce costs.

It is understood that at present, the garments exported by Ai Group to Europe and the United States have been tested by dozens of ecological and environmental indicators of Swiss appraisal companies; fiber materials meet the ecological standards; fabric chemicals meet the European Union's REACH requirements, and have achieved double harvest in terms of efficiency and reputation.

Fourth, reasonable production and control of inventory, overseas mergers and acquisitions must take many measures.

In response to the impact of carbon tariffs, Wu Donghua, a foreign trade expert of the Ministry of Commerce and the China International Economic Cooperation Institute, suggested that "China's main silk fabrics are fist products and will have a broad market in the future.

On the one hand, the sales volume of silk fabrics has not been reduced year-on-year. On the other hand, it is considered that the future of chemical fiber clothing will be phased out more than 505 of the market in developed countries, while the developing chemical fiber clothing will also eliminate 20% of the market.

According to Wu Donghua's point of view, it is this huge market change that determines that silk clothing is the main market for developed countries, and that cotton yarn clothing is the main developing country for developing countries. In fact, silk clothing has a large market.