Spain'S Local Shoe Factories Have "Returned To Work" &Nbsp, And The Situation Of Chinese Businessmen Is Worsening.

Mention Spanish shoe city

Elche city is located in Valencia, Spain. It is the third largest city in the province, with a population of about 200 thousand.

Elche city has traditional footwear manufacturing industry. It has become one of the largest footwear producing areas in Europe and has the reputation of "the first shoe city in Europe".

It can be said that before 2000, the small town depended on the development system.

There is no doubt that the impact of this low price impact is unprecedented.

Although the Spanish shoe factory insisted on winning the design and quality, the Spanish shoe factory has never won the battle. Under the pressure of Chinese shoes, the living space is becoming increasingly tight.

The low price impact finally caused a serious conflict. In September 17, 2004, about 400 unidentified Spaniards gathered in the streets of China's shoe city in Elche, Spain, and burned a truck carrying Wenzhou shoes containers and a Wenzhou shoe dealer's warehouse, resulting in an economic loss of about 8 million yuan.

The violent incident that violated the rights and interests of Chinese businessmen shocked the world.

Only 6 days later, in September 23rd, a new round of demonstrations against Chinese businessmen broke out.

The protesters threatened to hold a protest once a week in order to resist unfair competition from the cheap products of Chinese businessmen to Spanish local businessmen.

Fortunately, the matter was finally solved under the intervention of the local government, but this incident has led China and the west to start thinking about changing the economic mode.

In the past 4 years, Spain

Mr. Chen

Elche, a shoe store owner, has been in business for 7 years or so.

When I first started making shoes business, the domestic manufacturers were rushing to give you goods, the price is not appropriate, but also credit, but after the economic crisis, no matter how good the relationship with the manufacturers can not be credit, and how much liquidity the Chinese businessmen have, this virtually limits our development.

Besides, it is very easy to make shoes business before. People from all over the country and even people from other countries will come here to buy goods. If you have the right price, you can get one container per day.

However, in the past two years, many shoe dealers have been unable to say anything. The main problem is the RMB exchange rate. Before a pair of shoes 20 yuan, the euro is two yuan.

But now the price of domestic shoes is rising, and the price of a pair of shoes should be three or forty. The cost of changing the euro to 5 euros will not be competitive.

Mr. Li

Elche shoe city manager has been in business for more than 10 years.

I think the current problems are multifaceted and the problems of the world as a whole, not just the problems of Spain and China.

First of all, compared to 10 years ago, the cost of labor in China rose. Before a worker hundreds of blocks a month, now at least two thousand, and raw material prices rise.

This has led to a rise in the price of Chinese leather shoes. The underlying reason is the RMB exchange rate in the euro area and China. The euro zone is getting worse and the euro is also weakening.

This is a bitter experience for overseas Chinese businessmen.

All the money earned is lost to the exchange rate.

And Spanish officials have also done a lot of customs clearance in order to limit Chinese shoes, resulting in more and more trouble with customs clearance. Sometimes, the whole cabinet is being buckled and lost.

Tariffs are also rising and the cost is getting higher and higher.

Under these comprehensive conditions, Spain's competitiveness of Chinese shoes is getting worse and worse.

I used to double my shoes when I came in.

Now 40 pieces of shoes that come in sometimes need to lose money to sell.

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Mr. Zhang

Elche shoemaker has been in business for 10 years.

I think the Spanish shoe factory will resume production because the whole market has moved to the Spanish side, and to put it simply, Spain is now in an economic crisis, and people's purchasing power is becoming weaker and weaker.

But the cost of Chinese shoes is rising.

When a pair of shoes came in, the profits were great.

Later, Chinese people sold more and more shoes, and the competition became more and more intense.

On the contrary, some people are making money by making money.

Spain's shoe factories can be resumed. A big reason is that the cost of labor in Spain is very low. In other words, Spanish workers are very cheap. Some shoe factories recruit workers for only six hundred or seven hundred euros a month, compared with 1000 Chinese workers.

As a result, Chinese shoes gradually lose competitiveness.

Epilogue

As far as the situation is concerned by Chinese businessmen, the problems faced by Elche Chinese businessmen are very serious. On the one hand, the price of raw materials in China is rising, and the price is huge.

Wages of factory workers in China are also rising, which has led to the cost of each pair of shoes. On the other hand, the exchange rate between the renminbi and Spain has changed from the 10:1 of the year to the current 8:1, which in turn increased the cost of Chinese businessmen.

Another is that Spain has raised the tariff on footwear at present, and has caused many difficulties to Chinese businessmen in clearing customs, and the cost of pportation has doubled.

The main reason for this is that local Chinese businessmen are overwhelmed by the fact that Chinese shoes have lost the price advantage.

And when Chinese shoes lose the advantage of price, it is reasonable for the Spanish shoe factory to resume work, and at the same time, the wages of Spanish workers are lower than those of the Chinese.

In fact, after a pair of Chinese shoes crossed the sea to Spain, the cost was almost the same as those produced in Spain.

Many Chinese businessmen said that they should change their business ideas and change their development concepts.

It is also true that with the loss of traditional advantages such as price, Chinese businessmen are not going to change.