Facing The Predicament Of Cotton Market, We Should Strengthen Risk Awareness In Cotton Enterprises.

In recent years, with the domestic

With the rapid development of the domestic market, the demand for cotton has also increased significantly. Especially in the first half of this year, the price gap between domestic and foreign cotton is relatively large, there is a demand gap in domestic cotton, and this year, a large quantity of purchase reserves of China's cotton reserves has been concentrated, and cotton imports have surged.

The import of cotton helps to improve the supply and demand situation of tight domestic resources and curb domestic cotton prices.

However, with the increase of cotton imports in China, the quality problems of imported cotton have occurred frequently, and many textile enterprises have suffered varying degrees of losses.

For this reason, the inspection and quarantine department appealed to the relevant importing cotton spinning enterprises to increase their awareness of trade risks, fully understand the international market and cotton merchants' credibility, and consult the inspection and quarantine institutions for the matters needing attention in purchasing cotton at this stage, and effectively assist the inspection and quarantine departments in accordance with the import cotton inspection regulations, so as to truly and truly safeguard their legitimate rights and interests.

Strengthening the standardization of trade contracts

With the opening of cotton trade, the number of overseas supply enterprises is increasing, and the quality indicators are not standardized.

It is mainly shown in the contract that different grades, multiple length indexes and fineness range are used as a value, while the strength stipulates the minimum and the average strength.

If barely M is found in grade indicators, it is close to grade three. Does the actual test take three grade test or two level semi processing?

Imported cotton from the bonded area is often required by foreign cotton traders under the terms of the contract.

Only the "CIQ certificate" shall be signed in the contract, and the quality shall not be settled or claimed by the result of CIQ.

In addition, there are some additional clauses in the cotton contract of the non bonded area, which stipulate that there is no no quality claim. The green card cotton in the United States has the overlord clause and does not allow claims. Combined with the actual inspection situation of the inspection and quarantine part, no claim cotton and green card cotton are not perfect, and there are many cases of quality degradation.

This means that the domestic cotton textile enterprises give up more and more losses on the right to claim.

These non-standard contracts bring inconvenience to sampling and inspection work. It is impossible to distinguish the separate sampling of cotton bags. It brings many problems and puzzles to the accuracy of laboratory test results, data processing and the fairness of quality certificates, and affects the certification and statistics.

At the same time, enterprises can not find a reasonable basis for their claims.

Therefore, enterprises should be encouraged to sign the Sino Cotton Association and Sino spinning clauses, and sign standardized contracts with foreign merchants with high credibility and quality guarantee, so as to better safeguard the interests of the state and enterprises.

Attach importance to sampling and weighing work

Weight appraisal is an indispensable link in import and export trade. According to the statistics of imported cotton in China over the past years, more than 90% batches have short weight, and the claim amount of short weight is considerable. Therefore, this work is very important and often requires enterprises to cooperate in many ways.

This requires enterprises to self discipline, strengthen the management of related work, equipped with the necessary equipment, venues, materials, etc., to ensure the smooth development of the work.

When importing cotton textile enterprises to understand the time when importing cotton to factories or warehouses, they should notify the inspection and quarantine departments in their respective jurisdictions in time.

At the same time prepare relevant weighing apparatus, kraft paper for sampling, opening pliers, art knife, marker pen and so on.

The common sampling unstandardized problems are: sample unrepresentative, edge, knife edge or poor surface cotton, even part of the enterprise to obtain illegal benefits, repeated sampling from poor cotton bag; sample kraft paper is not identified, can not be distinguished; because some enterprises import concentration, centralized laboratory testing, the sample storage is not good, some even dampness mouldy, and directly affect the authenticity of the follow-up quality test; sampling quantity is insufficient, the number of samples is less than 10% of the number of samples and less than 250g~300g of sample weight.

The representativeness and quantity weight of sampling directly affect the results of subsequent quality inspection, and can not cause trade imbalance because of their small profits.

The common problems in the work of weighing are as follows: the weighing instrument has not been calibrated or exceeded the validity period in time; the code sheet has not been filled up, the scribble is changed, and the review is not meticulous.

For example, such as mildew, oil pollution and fire cotton should be immediately informed to the trade party or the third party appraisal institution, together with the inspection and quarantine department, to carry out the damage identification, find out the cause of the damage, distinguish the responsibility attribution, and earnestly safeguard the interests of the enterprise.

Packing management of imported cotton

At present, the situation of imported cotton packaging is rather confusing. The packaging of American cotton is better. The information of the package is clear, but there are many kinds of packaging. Among them, the sack bags and woven bags are easy to produce foreign fibers in the pportation process. The cotton packaging in India and Uzbekistan countries is very easy to break and fry, and the information outside the package is not clear and difficult to identify.

It not only brings trouble for cotton spinning enterprises to clean up "three wire" work, but also has serious impact on textile production and direct or indirect economic losses.

In view of this situation, it is suggested that the mandatory technical requirements for packaging should be included in the terms of the contract. The packing terms and terms of the imported cotton should be further defined, and uniform packaging and marked markings should be required as far as possible, so as to facilitate the lodged claims on imported cotton due to the problem of quality and usage due to packing problems.

Familiar with import cotton inspection process

At present, China's imports

The main source countries are the United States and India.

The differences in growth conditions, varieties and the way of picking up different parts of cotton in different parts of the United States make a part of cotton not mature enough, the length is tight, the micron value is low, and there are more leaf chips and higher impurities. The more prominent problem is that the cotton is gray and glossy, the length is short or short, and the leaves are more numerous.

Due to the backwardness of picking and rolling methods, the quality of cotton mill workers in India is poor. There are more leaf chips and more foreign fibers.

The main reason for the failure of imported cotton quality is that the contract performance of foreign cotton suppliers has declined.

It shows that the supplier's reputation is not good, and there is a shortage of delivery and delivery, even adulteration in the delivery. Because of the tight international cotton supply, the international cotton prices are extraordinarily active, and foreign cotton traders have difficulty in delivering the goods on the delivery of cotton. In order to fulfill the contract, or extend the shipment date or deliver the cotton delivered to the futures, the cotton quality can not be guaranteed consistent with the contract requirements.

Second, cotton contract index is too high, resulting in the spot quality can not meet the requirements.

With the development of imported cotton trade, the scope of importing cotton trade is also expanding. Some domestic cotton enterprises are not aware of the cotton quality and characteristics when importing cotton from other countries. The cotton grades and specifications need to be implemented in accordance with the standards of the United States cotton standard in the contract, and the cotton quality in the country is not up to the requirements of the contract, causing some cotton indicators to be unqualified.

Many textile purchasing enterprises in foreign trade and textile enterprises do not know much about the basic knowledge and quality inspection procedures of cotton, and often consult the quality index of enterprises for testing content. They know little about the procedures, standards, environment and personnel requirements of imported cotton quality inspection.

Therefore, it is suggested that the relevant importing cotton enterprises should first fully collect and learn the basic knowledge of cotton in the importing countries, understand the connotation of each quality index and the impact on the latter process; two, we must understand the process of import cotton quality inspection, focus on the quality inspection methods, standards and the judgement of the results, and strive to be able to visit the qualified cotton testing laboratories and consult the relevant questions on the spot.

In addition, because imported cotton is a staple trade agricultural product, it is not a uniform product of standardized production. There are always some differences, which means that many batches have degraded quality. However, it does not mean that they are not qualified. They are not equal to the so-called black cotton. They should be treated as a whole.