Vigilance, "Adulterated Cotton" Fierce Influx Of China

Recently, "adulterated cotton" has flooded some markets in Shandong, causing serious damage to local merchants.

Near the National Day holiday, Zhang Shaogai (a pseudonym) was deeply involved in a claim dispute.

The first time he imported a raw cotton from Shandong Dezhou textile company was cheated, and they supplied a company from India.

Zhang Shaogai's knitting company signed a 500 ton cotton import agreement with a India cotton trader in June this year, a total of 3050 packages.

In August, when the first 1500 bales of cotton shipped to Zhang Shaogai textile company were just opened, it was found that they were not the same as those imported before: they had more impurities, poor color, uneven cotton fibers, short length and poor strength.

Zhang Shaogai immediately imported the raw cotton to the laboratory of Dezhou inspection and quarantine department for testing.

Soon, the inspection results of Dezhou inspection and quarantine department came out: the batches of cotton contained a lot of special impurities such as feathers, yarn, hair, chemical fiber and cloth, and the proportion of foreign fibers accounted for 20%.

"See the inspection report to be sure that hundreds of tons of stuff are all leftovers."

Dezhou city inspection and Quarantine Bureau has issued a certificate of quality for external use of the enterprise.

According to local media reports, this year, the Shandong provincial inspection and Quarantine Bureau's industrial center cotton laboratory has inspected 500 batches of imported India cotton, totaling 151 thousand and 800 tons, with a value of 468 million dollars. In the inspection, 38 batches of short fibers were added, amounting to 16 thousand tons, the value of goods was 51 million 750 thousand US dollars, and the weight of doped goods accounted for 11.1% of the weight of imported cotton in India.

Of the 38 batches of imported cotton samples collected in India, 20 batches of samples were over 10%.

Insiders remind us that it is not desirable to see no quality claims for goods trading. Enterprises should clarify the relevant contents of the Sino cotton association or Sino spinning clauses in the contract, and pay more attention to protecting their rights and interests.

Deliberate adulteration

In September 21st, people concerned with the inspection and Quarantine Bureau said in an interview with the newspaper that the inferior cotton imported from Dezhou was obviously adulterated and deliberately adulterated.

Another official from the State Administration of inspection and quarantine told reporters that there are many cases of unqualified quality in the import cotton trade every year. The Dezhou company is just one of the numerous enterprises that suffer losses.

He said that now the state inspection and quarantine bureau is also conducting nationwide surveys and statistics.

The fact is, in the news issued by the inspection and Quarantine Bureau of various parts of the country, the cotton pests and diseases, harmful substances, unqualified quality, short weight, adulterated adulteration and adulteration have occurred frequently in cotton imported from China.

The mass of raw cotton is low, so knitted enterprises have to invest a lot of manpower and financial resources to pick up impurities.

Those who originally wanted to use high-grade cotton as export garments could only be downgraded and had huge economic losses.

In the first half of 2011, Wuxi enterprises imported 49 batches of cotton and found 45 batches of imported cotton, which amounted to 22 million 760 thousand US dollars.

In the 3 batch of imported cotton inspection accepted in June this year, the Shaoxing inspection and Quarantine Bureau found that the short weight rate of the 3 batches of cotton exceeded 3%, exceeding the red line of the AQSIQ's quality credit assessment standard.

As the third largest cotton importing port after Qingdao port and Shanghai port, Zhangjiagang cotton imports accounted for 13% of the national share of cotton. Last year, 300 batches of unqualified imported cotton were detected, accounting for 59.5% of the tested batches.

In the first half of this year, Shanghai's Waigaoqiao (600648, stock bar) port also discovered two batches of cotton imported from India and its short weight rate exceeded 3%.

According to statistics, last year, the Shanghai inspection and Quarantine Bureau detected 703 batches of imported cotton with unqualified weight, and the batch failed rate was 82.6%.

In Qingdao, the largest cotton import port in Huangdao bonded port area, the quality of imported cotton is getting worse.

The source of imported cotton at Huangdao port is more than 30 countries including India, the United States, Brazil, Cameroon and Pakistan. The annual inspection of imported cotton accounts for more than 50% of the country's total cotton imports.

In 2010, the Huangdao inspection and Quarantine Bureau intercepted more than 100 batches of all kinds of harmful organisms imported from the country, and the unqualified rate of short weight reached 82.2%.

Collecting credit

In the face of the fierce adulteration of adulterated cotton into China, the AQSIQ formally implemented the registration management and quality credit rating management system for imported cotton suppliers from mainland China in March 15, 2009. The domestic enterprises can choose their trade according to the credit situation of the cotton suppliers in the territory of the State General Administration of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine, and reduce the cotton quality risk caused by traders' credit problems.

The reporter learned from the Shandong entry exit quarantine inspection bureau that in order to help enterprises avoid the risk of cotton quality and confirm traders' credit, the province has implemented credit collection management for registered and unregistered overseas cotton enterprises.

The Shandong provincial inspection and Quarantine Bureau also announced the registration list and credit rating of overseas cotton enterprises in a timely manner, and put forward import risk warning for the poor reputable suppliers.

Shandong entry exit inspection and Quarantine Bureau also suggested importing cotton enterprises. "We need to further enhance our awareness of self-protection and establish a risk prevention system. We must make a good market analysis before buying the imported cotton, and guard against the phenomenon that India cotton is short of fiber. We must promptly report to the inspection and quarantine department and make timely sampling inspection so as to ensure that the inspection certificate and external claims are not delayed. When we sign the cotton purchase contract, we should try our best to choose suppliers with good credit. We must not only look at the quotations, but blindly import them."

Reporters learned from the China Cotton Association that most cotton importing enterprises chose India cotton.

"If we want to import cotton in the bonded area, we must pay attention to the quality clause of cotton."

Experts from the China Cotton Association pointed out that it is not desirable to see no quality claims for goods trading. It is necessary to clarify the contents of Sino cotton association or Sino spinning clauses in the contract so as to effectively protect their legitimate rights and interests from damage. "Enterprises must pay more attention when importing."