In Order To Meet Low Price Demand, Japan'S Garment Industry Has Accelerated To Get Rid Of China'S Dependence.

Japan's comprehensive trading houses (trade companies) are competing to expand Southeast Asia. Clothing production And purchasing. Mitsui products in Burma and other countries finalize cooperative factories, plans to increase the proportion of overseas production in Southeast Asia from 2 to 4. Sumitomo plans to set up a garment manufacturer in Vietnam this month. Japanese apparel industry Worried about the deterioration of China's labor costs, it wants to expand purchases from emerging economies with lower labor costs, while Japanese businesses open up new undertakings, which will speed up the pace of Japan's dependence on China.

Japanese Clothing industry And most of the clothing stores do not set up factories in Japan, but mainly through overseas trade companies. Because of low labor costs, these businesses are concentrated in China, and the ratio of imports from China has reached 8. But in the past 5 years, China's labor cost has risen by about 1 times. To meet the demand of low price products in Japan, we have to create another production channel that can ensure profitability.

Mitsui products signed an agreement with factories in Vietnam and Burma to acquire exclusive garment production lines with an annual capacity of 1 million. During the year, 500 thousand factories in Kampuchea will start work. Sumitomo commercial clothing company has about 50 technical instructors, including the Japanese, in local legal persons in Vietnam. We hope to expand production in Vietnam and improve the quality of Kampuchea and Laos cooperation factories.

Marubeni plans to raise about 15% of the Southeast Asian production ratio to more than 3 by the end of 3 in 2014. Itochu will send Japanese technicians to Burma factory to expand the production of shirts. MITSUBISHI is also preparing to set up bases in Indonesia and Kampuchea to increase procurement channels.