Textile And Clothing Industry: After Ten Years Of WTO Entry, Blowout And Friction Are In The Same Place.

join WTO For China's fashion industry, it means further opening up, more direct competition and broader. market 。

Therefore, at the 10th anniversary time of China's accession to the WTO, we will discuss and summarize the practical significance of WTO in China's fashion industry. We need to stand at the height of Global trade.

Based on this, as a personal experience of WTO, second of China's fashion industry's accession to the 10th anniversary series, we focus on China. Spin product Trade The change of environment, behind the high growth brought by China's accession to the WTO, is a new problem, which is increasing trade friction.

There is no denying that China's textile industry has achieved trade success after joining the WTO. It can be said that the ten year of joining the WTO is one of the fastest and best times for China's textile industry.

But with the success of numbers, we are also facing increasing trade frictions. This has become a new problem that we need to solve urgently.

Blowout after WTO entry

Benefiting from China's entry into the WTO, China's textile and garment industry has made leaps and bounds in the past ten years, not only the total export volume has doubled, but also the Chinese textile industry in the global market position.

According to the data from the China Textile Industry Association, China's textile exports totaled 206 billion 500 million US dollars in 2010, an increase of 75.72% compared to the 117 billion 500 million year old export quota of the global textile trade quota, which was increased by 75.72% in 2005, compared with 56 billion in 2000. The momentum of development is amazing, and there are few people in the world.

While the total export volume doubles, China's textile industry has grown rapidly in the global market year after year. This is mainly reflected in the proportion of China's textile and garment exports to the global market.

It is also from the China Textile Industry Association's data. In 2010, China's textile and garment exports accounted for 32.71% of the global market share. Under the new economic situation, the overall competitiveness of the industry is still improving, which is further improved by nearly 9 points compared with the 24% of the total quota in 2005. China's share of Global trade doubled in 2000, before entering the WTO.

At present, China's textile exports account for more than 30% of the world's market share, and no one can match it.

Trade friction normalization

The success of digital certification has been ten years since China's entry into the WTO. It is the ten year of the blowout development of China's textile and garment industry. However, with the further improvement of the global market share, China's textile industry will inevitably fall into the increasingly frequent trade frictions.

Data show that over the past 10 years, China's textile industry has experienced rapid growth in international trade friction for ten years. Especially since the outbreak of the international financial crisis, the process of economic recovery has been further divided, and the macroeconomic policies of some major economies have intensified their self-reliance, and trade protectionism has been constantly warming up. China has become a major target country for trade protectionism. In 1980~1989, China was accused of anti-dumping accounted for 4.6% of the total number of anti-dumping cases in the world, and reached 13.2% in 1990~1999; in 2000~2009, China was accused of accounting for 26.3% of the total number of anti-dumping cases in the world, of which 2005~2009 reached 34.7%.

As the main product of China's export earnings, textile and apparel industry has been a major share in the global trade remedy for 10 years. According to the investment analysis and forecast report of China chemical fiber industry in 2010~2015 published by China investment advisor, China has launched 55 special safeguard measures for foreign textiles in China in 2001~2008. In 2009, the global trade and guarding cases against China's textile and clothing export products reached a record high. According to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce, there were 45 cases of anti-dumping related to Chinese textile and clothing in 2009. It involves chemical fiber filament, chemical fiber staple, curtain, ribbon, electric blanket, cord fabric, cotton yarn, sheet, linen, narrow loom and so on from raw material to a real series of products.

From the perspective of trade protection measures, it can be roughly divided into two categories: policy and technology. The policy trade protection measures are mainly based on two guarantees. It restricts the entry of other countries into the market and threatens their related industries in the form and means of law. In recent years, such measures have tended to be normalized, and more and more are developing in the international market, such as India, Pakistan and other developing countries.

Technical trade protection measures are mostly concentrated in developed economies such as the United States, Japan, the European Union and Canada. Developed economies have sound standards and testing institutions. In order to prevent the impact of China's textile and clothing on its market, a number of new regulations have been promulgated and updated, such as REACH regulations, banned azo dyes, textile eco label standards, and OekoTex100 certification standards.

These have already constituted obstacles to the future development of China's textile industry, and are also a new subject for our country to learn urgently. At the same time, this is also a test for us in the past ten years after joining the WTO. Have we been able to skillfully use the WTO rules and understand its essence? Just as China's leather shoes successfully applied to the EU by using the WTO rules earlier, it won the victory of the anti-dumping war finally.