Footwear Exports In Quanzhou Hit A New High

Yesterday, reporters from Quanzhou test Shishi Office of the Quarantine Bureau was informed that in 1-7 months, the Quanzhou inspection and Quarantine Bureau inspected 368 million pairs of export shoes and 2 billion 8 million US dollars for export delivery, representing an increase of 3.36% and 24.88% respectively, and exports reached the highest level in history. But the industry analysis, the third quarter of Quanzhou footwear exports will fall.

According to statistics, 1-7 months, Quanzhou exports footwear The unit price has risen to $5.46 / double, an increase of 20.80% over 2010, a record high. Among them, exports to the European Union amounted to 634 million US dollars, accounting for 31.6% of the total footwear exports, and US $387 million, which accounted for 19.3% of total footwear exports. The proportion of these two markets has increased from 43% in 2009 to 51%, and the high-end market in Europe and the United States has become the main position of footwear exports in Quanzhou. The staff of Shishi Office introduced that the export oriented footwear enterprises in our city have been actively developing Russian, South Asian, South American and African markets on the basis of consolidating the European, American and Japanese markets and expanding the market of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and now the sales market has spread throughout the whole world in more than 80 countries and regions. At the same time, the inspection and quarantine departments also increased support for export footwear enterprises with independent brands, encouraged enterprises to adopt international standards and advanced foreign standards, participate in the formulation of standards, set up enterprise standards higher than foreign standards, and constantly improve the level of standardization.

Mixed feelings, according to the relevant departments, this spring, the Canton Fair, Europe, Japan and other traditional developed market buyers to the conference and on-site export transaction growth is limited, the number of buyers of the third phase declined. Especially the recent price of raw materials. Appear Industries that fall back, such as textile, clothing, shoes, bags and other labor-intensive light industrial products, appear to be particularly light. "In the past two months, the performance of foreign trade enterprises is expected to be more pessimistic in the third quarter, and the export growth in July may only be short-term fine-tuning." Insiders pointed out that, by the impact of various cost increases, most of the enterprises in our province started in the first half of the year only around 50%. After April, the order of shoes and garments and other enterprises took a sharp turn. Most of the enterprises had fewer orders in August and September. In addition, the decline in the US sovereign credit rating will, to a certain extent, cause a slowdown in the developed countries, leading to a contraction in external demand, which is expected in the second half. China Export growth will drop to a certain extent.