Textile And Clothing Industry: European And American Trade Barriers Affect China'S Exports

According to the report issued by the Statistics Center of the China Textile Industry Federation, China's textiles in the first half of this year clothing Export products are still the main goal of global trade protection. Europe, the United States and other countries continue to introduce new technical barriers to trade measures, which seriously affect the export of China's textile and clothing products.

According to the report of the China Textile Federation, since this year, the US government has successively introduced a number of trade protection measures, including the establishment of an interdepartmental trade law enforcement center, the compulsory implementation of third-party testing and certification of children's products, and the implementation of new standards for limiting the lead content of children's products exported to the United States; Mexico has also revised its standards for the labelling of textiles and clothing; The new EU regulations on textile labels have been officially implemented since May. The introduction of these standards and regulations has made China's textile industry Clothing products export Facing greater cost pressure and trade risks.

In the first half of this year, the EU fast notification system for non edible consumer goods issued 924 notifications, an increase of 54% over the same period last year. Among them, there were 589 notifications to China, accounting for 63.74% of the total global notifications, an increase of 90.61% over the same period last year; 122 notifications were issued on textile and clothing products imported from China, accounting for 20.71% of the total notifications to China, an increase of 121.82% over the same period last year. According to the analysis, the EU has constantly introduced various technical barriers to trade such as standard certification and trade defense measures. The reason is that with the intensification of the European debt crisis, the EU has constantly strengthened the protection of textile and clothing enterprises in the region.

Statistics show that from May to June this year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission of the United States issued 58 recall notices for imported products, of which 7 were for imports from China Textile and garment products The number of circulars issued nearly tripled compared with the same period last year. This shows that the United States still pays high attention to the trade of China's textile and clothing products.

According to the report of the China Textile Federation, the international trade environment faced by China's textile and clothing exports may become more tense in the second half of this year, and international trade frictions may continue to intensify.

Xia Lingmin, vice president of China Textile Federation, said at the 2012 Top 500 Competitiveness Conference of China's Textile and Clothing Enterprises held in Zhengzhou on the 10th that the export of China's textile and clothing industry from January to July this year was almost zero growth compared with the same period last year, which is rare in recent years, and there was a negative growth in August; Previously, only 2009 was affected by the financial crisis, which decreased by 9.5% compared with 2008. In 2010 and 2011, it maintained an increase of 10-20 percentage points.