Multiple Factors Lead To Difficult Prices Of Cotton Textiles

After more than a year's "roller coaster", cotton prices are still at a lower price.

In the two months from September 27th to November 29th this year, the cotton price index of 328 declined all the way from 20002 to 19052.

However, many consumers feel that although

Prices of cotton products have risen.

The price of a set of four sets of cotton bed is 628 yuan, even if the membership card of a shopping mall is temporarily held, it will cost 553 yuan for the bed, which is still the middle and low price.

It is said that the price of cotton is cheap now, but why can't these pure cotton products be cut? "In front of the home counters of the six floor of the shopping mall of Ginza, the provincial capital, Ms. Chen did not understand the price of bedding at eight hundred or nine hundred yuan or even more than 1000 yuan.

At the end of November, reporters visited many shopping malls and stores in the provincial capital, and found that the recent decline in cotton prices did not drive cotton textile prices to follow suit.

Not only that, some brands of towels, bath towels, bedding and thermal underwear, cotton clothing and other cotton products prices have risen to varying degrees compared with previous years.

According to the guide of a new thermal underwear shop in New 100 square, last year, the brand underwear was priced at around 100 yuan. This year's underwear of the same grade has risen to between 130 yuan and 150 yuan.

In the Sales Department of the North home market, a home textile brand guide said that the price of pure cotton products rose from 1 to 2 in October.

Data from the statistics department also confirm consumers' feelings.

Gao Lixia, the consumer price office of the Shijiazhuang investigation team, said that in October, clothing prices in the city rose by 6.8% over the same period last year, affecting the overall price level by about 0.7 percentage points, of which clothing prices increased by 8.7% over the same period last year.

The data of the Hebei investigation team of the National Bureau of statistics also showed that in October, the price of clothing materials, autumn and winter clothing rose, and the total CPI index in October increased by about 0.29 percentage points.

Digestion of high priced cotton and other factors cause prices to decline.

The price of cotton has declined. Why does the price of cotton textiles have not declined? "Cotton and other raw materials account for only 25% of the price of clothing products. The main reason for the overall decline in the overall price of clothing is the rise in other costs, such as energy, wages and rents."

Sun Weilun, President of the provincial textile and garment industry association, analyzed.

"Cotton processing and clothing production are cyclical. Now the clothes sold are made of cotton bought a few months ago, when cotton prices were still high."

New hundred square thermal underwear salesman said.

Gao Lixia said that since July 1st this year, on the basis of substantially raising the minimum wage last year, the minimum wage standard of Shijiazhuang has been adjusted again, and the adjustment is larger than last year, from 900 yuan to 1100 yuan, an increase of 22.2%.

The increase in labor costs is a major factor in price increases.

Zhao Gang, owner of Xuan Yu towel factory in Baoding, introduces the cost of a towel mainly depends on cotton prices, wages, water charges, electricity charges, taxes and fees.

At present, the price fluctuation of workers' wages and water washing charges directly push up the price of cotton textiles.

Among them, the rise in wages is a major factor.

He said that compared with last year's monthly wage of around 2500 yuan, the minimum wage for workers this year is above 3000 yuan.

In addition, Zhao Gang said that although cotton prices are in a downward trend at present, the cotton thread used for production is purchased at high cotton prices.

The rise in housing rents is also a big driver of product prices.

Ms. Wang is the owner of a clothing store in Qing Yuan Street of the provincial capital. In her view, this year's cotton clothes business is not easy to do because the price is more expensive than in previous years, and the business in the store is quite deserted.

"My shop has an area of less than 15 square meters. Last year the rent was only 2000 yuan per month. This year it rose to 2700 yuan. In a year, only one rent will be paid more than 6000 yuan."

Ms. Wang said.