The Order Is Still There But Dare Not Answer It? Pearl River Delta Imports And Exports Decline Month By Month

19.1%, 17.7%, 15.9%, 14.1%, 12.9%, and the above series of downgrading figures are the cumulative increase of foreign trade import and export volume since March in Dongguan.

Compared with historical data, the reporters found that not only Dongguan, but also the concentrated Pearl River Delta of Guangdong's foreign trade also showed a trend of declining monthly total import and export volume.

　 Import and export growth slowed month by month

Recently, the Dongguan Municipal Bureau of Statistics announced the main economic indicators of Dongguan in July 2011. It shows that in July, the total value of imports and exports of Dongguan was 11 billion 851 million US dollars, of which the total export volume was 6 billion 842 million US dollars, the first 7 months. Import and export The total amount reached 74 billion 341 million US dollars, a cumulative increase of 12.9%.

Reporters query historical data found that since this year, the total import and export growth is showing a gradual decline in the trend, an increase of 19.1% in 1-3 months, 1~4 month growth of 17.7%, 1~5 month growth of 15.9%, 1~6 month growth of 14.1%. The same is true for export growth.

In fact, according to the latest statistics of the 9 cities of the Pearl River Delta in July, the statistics of Guangdong's foreign trade and Economic Cooperation Department's total import and export growth show that Dongguan and the Pearl River Delta show the same trend.

For the whole province of Guangdong, the first 7 months of Guangdong's import and export Trade The total value was $513 billion 400 million, an increase of 24% over the same period last year. This is the first time this year's cumulative import and export growth has been lower than the national level for the first time, 1.1 percentage points lower than the 25.1% increase in the whole country.

Regarding this, Jiang Lin, director of the Department of Finance and taxation of the south of the Five Ridges College of Zhongshan University, told our reporter that the current data reflected the order of enterprises 2~3 months ago because of the lag of export data. This shows that the situation of enterprises receiving orders from the end of last year to the first half of this year is not ideal. "If we only look at the figures, it is possible that this cumulative decline will occur throughout the year." He said.

Dongguan City Foreign trade and economic cooperation Bureau official said that the current overall foreign trade in the city is relatively healthy, but the relative weakness of external demand in the past few months has led to a slower growth rate, but the trend will gradually increase in the coming months.

The order is still there but dare not answer it?

"But it can not be said that the current foreign trade situation is not good. I understand that foreign orders still exist, but domestic enterprises are afraid to take them." Jiang Lin said.

Wei Qiang, general manager of Shenzhen Datong Enterprise Service Co., Ltd., which is specialized in providing import and export links for foreign trade enterprises, also told our reporter that they held an event in Dongguan at the end of 8. They were represented by 200 foreign trade enterprises on the stage. When the enterprises on the stage asked questions about which enterprises could not get the order, 90% of the representatives of the enterprises raised their hands.

"For many factories, it is not a question of orders, but a question of whether orders can be answered." Yin Zhiqiang, director of the International Electronics Group, explained to our reporter that the reason why companies dare not take orders is that the cost of labor and raw materials has been rising continuously, which has increased the cost of the enterprises, and the external price can not be arbitrarily increased. In addition, the continued appreciation of the renminbi has made the orders which are originally not profitable enough become unprofitable or even at a loss.

"In fact, it is not that there is no demand for foreign trade, but that the ability of our SMEs to accept various trade modes is very weak. For example, they can only accept cash payment, that is, overseas buyers pay first and then deliver, but this payment method is the least acceptable to overseas buyers. Wei Qiang said. {page_break}

Jiang Lin believes that if small and medium-sized enterprises still maintain the current state and do not improve their competitiveness, overseas orders will be robbed by Vietnam and other places.

"I do not think that this collapse has yet been fully formed, but it should be fast, because orders are getting harder and harder to pick up." Wei Qiang said that the RMB exchange rate, labor costs and environmental costs can not be controlled.