Garment Export Faces Many "Barriers". Yantai'S 80% Textile Enterprises Are In Trouble.

In recent years,

Technical trade measures are becoming increasingly stringent, especially in Europe and Japan, which are heavily relied on by our city. The entry threshold is getting higher and higher. Now it has seriously impacted on the export of textile and garment enterprises. In the first quarter of this year, Yantai port inspected 3601 shipments of Japanese textile and apparel products, and the value of goods was $99 million 731 thousand, all of which fell.

"What can not be overlooked is that some enterprises' original product price advantage has become less and less obvious, and the advantages of the industrial chain are also gradually disappearing. Some enterprises are in a predicament of production and operation." yesterday, facing the latest economic data, Yi Yufeng, a textile expert in Yantai inspection and quarantine department, appeared worried.

A new law "lock throat" export

"As far as Yantai is concerned, 70% to 80% of exports are exported to Japan!"

However, this country, which is almost alone in supporting Yantai's export market, is increasingly worrying Yantai enterprises.

This year, Japan, South Korea and other major export countries and regions in China's garment industry demand rebounded. However, for small and medium-sized enterprises with poor risk tolerance, standardized barriers will directly impact their survival status.

Experts told reporters that, just two months ago, the Japanese Ministry of economic and trade industry launched an initiative to investigate and identify the quality of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) with pigment content of more than 50ppm, and for those PCBs severely exceeding standard toner pigments, the market will be ordered to stop production and withdraw from the market.

In the past two years, Japan's "prescribed action" for textiles has become more specific: in 2010, the "chemical substances review and regulation law" was issued. In 2011, the textile industry in Japan formulated the self-discipline standard for textiles without the use of azo dyes, and carried out specific azo dyes detection.

The new standard is far more than "literal" so simple.

In the view of clothing export experts, the trade background of this standard has another layer of deep meaning. "In recent years, Japan has been increasing the number of testing items related to human life, health, safety and environmental protection. At the same time, because of the economic downturn in Japan after the earthquake, the price of products has been decreasing again and again, and the price of domestic labor has been rising, so there are many obstacles for export enterprises."

Experts expect that this standard will be officially announced in the middle of the year.

Industrial chain advantages are becoming endangered.

"Workers who get 4000 to 5000 yuan in wages a month have become common among factories. Even so, workers who are" fired "will still appear in Yi Yufeng's memory, in places like Haiyang.

Always intensive.

A few years ago, the industry was generally "workers looking for factories". Now, basically, the wages have surged year after year.

"The rising cost of business is obvious.

The Yantai textile inspection and Quarantine Bureau expert Yu Yu Xin also believes that the textile and garment industry has always been a labor-intensive industry. With the relocation of some enterprises to the mainland, the employment gap in coastal areas such as Yantai has been increasing. Skilled sewing workers are "hard to work hard", and the contradiction between structural labor and employment is prominent.

"At the same time, economic development has led to the rapid rise of labor prices, and the increase of salary and insurance benefits can no longer meet the requirements of workers. The development potential, work content and working environment are also the criteria for choosing jobs. If enterprises want to solve the recruitment problems, they must make every effort to optimize" software ", and the prices of raw materials will continue to rise, and the operating costs will also increase greatly.

In the clothing export enterprises in 79 catalogues of the Yantai port area, the small and medium-sized enterprises whose employees do not exceed 1000 and the annual export volume is less than 2 million US dollars is weak in their operational autonomy and product R & D capability. They still rely mainly on OEM processing, with lower product grades and difficulty in making profits, and most of them maintain a low profit level, "people familiar with the matter said.

How about the "demographic dividend"?

In the interview, the experts also said, "plus, in recent two years, the RMB exchange rate fluctuation and cotton price rise have become a stumbling block for the revival of the export of the local textile and garment industry. Once the price increases, those who can not bear the price increase may lose.

Before that, we were in Yantai in the production and production of half of the textile enterprises, and about 20% of the enterprises are losing money.

Yantai textile enterprises are making a collective farewell to the "demographic dividend", which is emerging.

The head of the Yantai textile inspection and Quarantine Bureau said that at the moment, the Japanese side's new standards should be taken as soon as possible to eliminate the use of azo dyes, while the "exemption clause" should be "valued."

At the same time, experts say "weak competition in export products".

According to Yu Yu Xin, after the Japanese earthquake, the volume of orders has shrunk dramatically, and the emerging Southeast Asian countries are competing for orders with price advantage. The trade environment is not optimistic.

At the same time, the characteristics of "big industries and small enterprises" are obvious. The number of small enterprises is large, and the threshold of industries is relatively low, which easily leads to disorderly competition among enterprises.

How to develop textile and garment exports? "For a long time, exports.

Mainly OEM processing, growth mode is relatively extensive and low profit, anti risk ability is weak.

Under the new situation, this labor-intensive industry in Yantai should accelerate the pformation from "scale oriented" to "benefit oriented" and achieve walking on two legs.

Experts say.