In The First Half Of 2013, Vietnam's Textile Exports Grew By 14.5% Over The Same Period Last Year.

Ben (2013) half a year ago Vietnam textile Exports amounted to US $8 billion 900 million, up 14.5% over the same period last year. We affirmed the competitive position of Vietnamese textiles in the international market, especially in the US, EU, Japan and South Korea.

The United States is the largest market for textile exports in Vietnam. In the first half of this year, exports amounted to US $3 billion 940 million, up 12% from the same period last year, accounting for 44.8% of Vietnam's total textile exports.

In the first half of the EU market, exports amounted to US $1 billion 290 million and grew by 18%. It is worth noting that in addition to the EU's market for developing countries, Vietnam's textile amplification market is exported to new EU member states such as EU developing countries.

Japanese textile exports amounted to US $1 billion 100 million, accounting for 12.5% of total textile exports and 24.5% growth.

South Korea is the fourth largest textile export market in Vietnam, and exports amounted to US $660 million in the first half of this year.

Vietnam's total textile exports are expected to reach US $19 billion 500 million this year.

In April 24, 2013, a 8 storey clothing factory building collapsed in the town of Sarwar, a suburb of Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing thousands. This tragedy has attracted the attention of the international community. Many famous retailers, such as H&M, Primark, Marks&Spencer and Mango, have signed a supply agreement with Bangladesh factories. Many analysts have criticized that these companies only pay their own money but ignore the situation of the workers in the suppliers' factories. It is because of their long disregard that these sweatworkers are working under extreme conditions, so they are responsible for the collapse of the building.

Prior to this, ILO IndustriALLGlobalUnion has led the development of a "safety production agreement" which aims to urge retailers to fulfill their supervisory obligations and urge Bangladesh suppliers to produce products according to safety standards. At present, famous retailers such as H&M, Primark, Marks&Spencer, Mango, G-Star and Benetton have joined or are ready to join the agreement. But UNIQLO, Japan's fast retailing group, the fourth largest clothing retailer in the world, refused to join the agreement. UNIQLO recently announced two stores in Bangladesh, and UNIQLO claimed that all clothing sold in the store will be manufactured in accordance with the "independent safety standards" of UNIQLO.

Since the death of 1129 people in a garment factory building in Bangladesh in April, a total of 80 clothing retail companies have signed a "safety agreement" to ensure the safe production of Bangladesh supplier factories. But UNIQLO refused to join the agreement.

CathyFeingold, head of the International Department of AFL-CIO, said that many chain retail companies have developed their own safety production standards, which claim that their safety standards are binding on suppliers' factories. But the practice of twenty years has proved that this way is failure, so the decentralized and unorganized independent supervision method is far from enough. Therefore, under the leadership of the ILO IndustriALLGlobalUnion, a "safety agreement" was designed to supervise the safe production of supplier factories. IndustriALLGlobalUnion has persuaded many European and American companies to join the agreement. In the coming months, they will also exert pressure on Asian companies and urge them to join the agreement.

JyrkiRaina, Secretary General of ILO IndustriALLGlobalUnion, who led the development of the security agreement, said: "what we can do now is to have our Japanese affiliates find some Target Corp and see how they should be urged to join the agreement."

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UNIQLO has been making garments in Bangladesh since 2008, but most of its garments are made by Chinese factories. Fast marketing group is striving to expand its scale to become the world's largest apparel retail group by 2020. At present, fast selling group is the fourth largest apparel retailer in the world.

However, the negative reports of UNIQLO in production increased rapidly from 2011 to 2012. Among them, the report of "serious violation" of UNIQLO factory increased from 19 to 34, and the reports of "serious immorality" and "serious offense" increased from zero to seven.

Textiles of the member states of the association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2012 Clothing export A sharp decline.

The main reason is the decline in exports to the United States and the European Union, though the general trend conceals significant changes in export performance among ASEAN Member States.

The worst performing country is Philippines, whose clothing exports have dropped by 17%. Malaysia's textile and clothing exports declined by 12.4%, while Thailand's textile and clothing exports dropped by 12.2%. Indonesia's textile and clothing exports dropped by 6.3%.

But there are also some bright spots. Kampuchea's textile and clothing exports increased by 8.7% compared with the same period last year, while Vietnam's textile and clothing exports increased by 8.5%.

Malaysia and Thailand's textile and clothing exports to the EU and the United States have dropped sharply. However, the dependence of the two countries on these two markets is lower than that of most other ASEAN member countries, and in most cases, their export growth to other markets.

Indonesia's textile and clothing exports to the United States and the European Union also declined, but domestic sales continued to grow significantly.

Philippines's clothing exports to the United States and most other foreign markets have declined. On the contrary, sales to the EU market are increasing.

After the EU decided to relax its GSP plan, Kampuchea's textile and clothing sales increased by 32.4% in the EU market, while sales in the US market fell by 2%.

Meanwhile, Vietnam? Exports of textiles and clothing to the European Union, the United States and Japan and other countries seemed unaffected, including exports from China, Russia and South Korea.