Qingdao: Clothing Enterprises Export New Barriers To EU

Since June, the island city has been pported to

Constantly raising the threshold

Jiaozhou Qingdao Far East coin Garment Co., Ltd.

Talking about EU REACH

REACH regulations are affecting the survival of European enterprises.

The companies interviewed by reporters share the same feelings with Keqiang: the EU's tests are getting stricter and stricter, some of which are even demanding.

It is understood that the REACH regulations will have a wider impact and will have an impact on enterprises including textiles, clothing, chemicals, toys and furniture.

The European Union has always been the traditional market that the island enterprises rely on. Taking textile and clothing as an example, the export volume of the textile and garment enterprises to the EU countries reached 390 million US dollars from 1 to April this year, an increase of 43.5% over the same period last year.

The new regulation adds 8 more to the original list of 13 highly concerned substances related to textiles, which will undoubtedly cause no small impact on the EU oriented export enterprises.

The cost of testing is often more than ten million yuan.

At present, the main way for enterprises to deal with REACH regulations is to ensure that their products do not contain illegal chemical components by testing.

However, reporters found in the interview that product testing is far from being so simple.

The inspection fees and related maintenance costs of the declared chemicals are quite expensive. The number of testing items and the high cost of testing are just as bad as adding to the foreign trade enterprises stranded in raw materials and labor costs.

When it comes to testing costs, we should say: "every additional substance in the EU REACH regulations, companies need to measure more than one substance. Sometimes we make a list. We only need tens of thousands of dollars for the cost of testing, and the cost of business is virtually elevated.

But this part of the money will not be spent. If it fails to meet the standards, the products will be recalled and will be rejected by the European Union. The company will suffer more losses because of losing the European market.

Not only expensive, but also domestic enterprises have no choice, testing agencies can only be designated by customers.

Li Haihong, general manager of Qingdao European Hua lace weaving Co., Ltd., told reporters: "the testing institutions in the whole industry have been monopolized. We have to choose the qualified third party testing institutions designated by customers.

Our products have more than ten kinds of substances to be tested, and the cost of testing for each item ranges from several hundred yuan to several thousand yuan. This part of the cost can not be borne by the customers, it can only be digested by the enterprise itself.

During the interview, it was learned that every product of some enterprises should be tested by dozens of items and hundreds of items. The cost of testing for each item is over 1000 yuan, and the detection cost of hundreds of thousands of yuan has become an unbearable burden for enterprises.

But the high cost of testing is the price that companies have to pay to retain the European market.