Emerging Markets Are Attacking Fujian'S Textile Industry

< p > the Eurasian Economic Commission has announced a survey of the launching of safeguard measures for the import of chemical fiber cloth into the customs union. 34 enterprises in our province have been involved in the investigation.

Reporters learned yesterday from the provincial foreign trade and Economic Cooperation Department. This year, our textile industry is experiencing more and more frequent trade surveys from emerging markets, including Egypt, Peru, Brazil and Mexico.

According to industry analysis, since last year, due to the decline in purchasing power of developed economies in Europe and the United States, enterprises in our province have been fighting for emerging economies, but these emerging countries believe that their domestic industries, especially textile and clothing, and other labor-intensive products have been significantly affected. Therefore, in order to protect domestic industries, these countries have adopted trade surveys to block China's textile exports.

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< p > reporter has learned that under the new situation, our province's < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > textile > /a > enterprises are also looking for new outlets. Some of them have begun to shift their factories to emerging markets in order to reduce trade friction and take advantage of the low cost of production in some countries. Besides, some enterprises in our province have begun to pform and turn danger into opportunity.

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< p > < strong > phenomenon: from a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > emerging market < /a > trade survey frequency conversion > /strong > /p >

< p > reporters learned that last month, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan formed the Economic Commission for Europe and Asia (Russia and Belarus) announced the launching of safeguard measures for the import of chemical fiber cloth into the Customs Union's unified territory. There are 34 enterprises involved in our province, of which more than one million enterprises are 8.

In 2011, the total export volume of our province to Russia, Japan and Kazakhstan under the tax code was 36 million 440 thousand US dollars, an increase of 29.86% over the same period last year, accounting for 6.51% of the total exports of the country (US $560 million).

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< p > this is not a case. The reporter understands that the textile industry in our province has experienced more and more trade surveys from emerging markets this year.

In June this year, the Peru government launched an anti-dumping investigation on some Chinese clothing and accessories products.

The total amount involved is 243 million US dollars.

Our province accounts for about 10% of the country's total, and the enterprises involved are mainly concentrated in Fuzhou, Xiamen and Quanzhou. Among them, there are 2 enterprises with more than one million dollars, and 6 enterprises over 500 thousand dollars.

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< p > in July this year, the Foreign Trade Secretariat of the Ministry of industry and foreign trade of Brazil issued a notice and decided to initiate anti-dumping investigations on nylon lines imported from China and South Korea. The Changle polyamide Industrial Co., Ltd. is one of the 4 compulsory respondent enterprises in China. Last year, the products exported to Brazil amounted to US $3 million 90 thousand, and the export volume ranked first in the country.

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< p > the monitoring of the provincial foreign trade and Economic Cooperation Department shows that one of the main features of this year's international trade friction situation in our province is that the trade protection in Latin America has been continuously strengthened and the number of cases initiated by the developing countries has increased significantly. In the first half of the year, 5 cases were involved in the cases initiated by Latin American countries, and the amount involved was as high as 32 million 420 thousand US dollars, 3 times more than that of last year.

11 of the 22 cases that were encountered in the first half of our province were initiated by developing countries, and the trend of trade protectionism in India and Brazil was particularly evident.

Textile industry is also a province with more trade frictions in our province. This year, our textile and clothing products have been investigated in emerging markets and regions such as Egypt, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and Kazakhstan.

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< p > < strong > reasons: the concentration to the emerging market is accused of attacking the local industry < /strong > < /p >

< p > textile > a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > dress < /a > is one of the main traditional export products of our province. The total textile economic volume of our province ranks fifth in the country. The textile products of the above scale textile enterprises are ranked third in the country, and the yarn, printing and dyeing cloth, nonwovens, clothing output and textile and garment export rank fifth in the country.

"The EU, ASEAN and the United States are the main export markets for textile and clothing in Fujian, but the weak demand in Europe and the United States last year has led to a decline in exports."

Some textile enterprise related people in our province said that the export orders of textile enterprises in our province are generally reduced by more than 20% this year, and the decline of the main European orders is more than 30%.

Orders for the new season are also cumbersome. The biggest worry is that the European debt crisis is still continuing to ferment. It is a trap.

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< p > data show that in the first half of this year, China's textile and clothing exports to the EU totaled 21 billion 310 million US dollars, down 12.2%.

Exports to the EU dropped to two digits, worse than in 2009.

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Under this background, many textile enterprises in our province have accelerated the expansion of emerging markets, so that our province's exports to emerging markets have also increased substantially in the past one or two years. P

For example, Peru exported textile products to US $24 million 20 thousand last year, an increase of 157.83% over the same period last year.

In the first three quarters of this year, the total export volume of textile products exported to Russia, Harbin and Kazakhstan was about 33 million 990 thousand US dollars under the tax code, which increased by 53.02% over the same period last year.

Exports to Russia, Brazil, India and other BRIC countries also grew by 35% over the same period last year.

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However, the problem is also followed. The large number of exports of textiles to emerging markets in China is accused of a significant impact on the local textile industry in emerging markets. P

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The relevant industry representatives of the Fujian provincial foreign trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau said that the representatives of the relevant industries in these countries asked their governments to increase their protection of domestic industries and to exclude China from manufacturing, and the call for trade remedy measures for the products concerned was also increasing.

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< p > < strong > influence: many textile enterprises develop or "add insult to injury" < /strong > /p >

< p > according to customs statistics, from January to August this year, China exported 161 billion 990 million US dollars of textile and clothing, down 0.7% from the same period last year.

However, Fujian's textile exports are on the contrary, with exports of 12 billion 20 million US dollars and 10.6% against the trend.

However, at present, the export of some textile products in our province also has a downward trend, for example, in the month of July, our textile exports were only 373 million US dollars, down 7.47% compared with the same period last year, and clothing exports were 1 billion 290 million US dollars, down 1.33% from the same period last year.

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< p > Fuzhou clothing association said that although China's cotton price has dropped from the highest 30000 yuan per ton to less than 20000 yuan, but it is still several thousand yuan higher than the international ratio, which undoubtedly has a great impact on the international competitiveness of enterprises. There are also other production costs which are also rising, such as the cost of labor. In recent years, the wages of workers have increased from 15% to 20% every year, and the monthly salary of textile workers has risen from 700 yuan to 800 yuan in 2001 to an average of about 3000 yuan.

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< p > in addition, the appreciation of RMB is also a major factor affecting the development of export enterprises.

Fujian textile industry association analysis, textile and apparel dependence is very high, for the RMB exchange rate change is also extremely sensitive.

RMB appreciation of 1 percentage points, the industry's net profit will drop 1 percentage points, while the average net profit of the current industry is only 3%~5%.

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Less than P, the industry believes that further development and development of emerging markets is very important for our province's foreign trade to achieve "stable market growth and growth" under the environment of the sustained economic downturn in Europe and the United States and the weak international market demand.

However, as the emerging market of new export growth point is also suppressed, the development of many textile enterprises in our province will be "worse."

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< p > < strong > explore: some enterprises begin to build factories in emerging markets < /strong > /p >

< p > reporter has learned that some textile enterprises in our province have begun to set up factories overseas, pferring orders to overseas production in Vietnam, Kampuchea and India, while reducing trade friction and taking advantage of the lower production costs of emerging markets.

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< p > Fujian Feng Da textile garment company opened a garment factory in Kampuchea last year. Now there are more than 800 workers, and is going to add another factory. At that time, 10 million dollars will be produced in Kampuchea. The company believes that Kampuchea and Bangladesh belong to the least developed countries listed by the United Nations, and their textile exports to the European Union, Japan and Canada can be exempt from customs duties.

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< p > there is also a foundry enterprise set up in Vietnam. Now it has 400 thousand spindles capacity and 4000 employees.

The group's sales revenue last year was 6 billion 800 million yuan, and Vietnam's capacity accounted for 40%.

Since the beginning of this year, the company has made full use of the preferential policies of the ASEAN Free Trade Area and the trade policy differences between Vietnam and China. It has been fully loaded at full capacity, and all of its cotton has been duty-free imported. The cotton per ton is 5000 yuan cheaper than the domestic price. Roughly calculated, the profits of the enterprise in the first half of this year amounted to several hundred million yuan.

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< p > Fuzhou clothing association said that this year, Fuzhou's relevant departments have led some enterprises in our city to explore the emerging market. Some enterprises in Changle are interested in setting up factories in emerging markets after investigation.

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< p > analysis of the chamber of Commerce of Fujian textile and garment export base, Fujian textile and garment enterprises choose Vietnam to invest overseas factories, mainly Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Burma, Kampuchea and other countries. The most important factor is to consider the labor cost factors and avoid trade friction, and of course, the allocation of international resources and the need to find business opportunities and expand the market.

"In addition to setting up factories outside the province, some enterprises in our province also take the opportunity to turn danger into opportunity."

Fujian textile and garment export base chamber of Commerce analysis, for example, a textile enterprise invested more than 100 million yuan this year, added 200 new European double jet looms.

Due to the downturn of the EU economy and the depreciation of the euro, the loom price is about 10% lower than that of the previous year, and 70 million yuan can save millions of yuan. The company can develop new products with advanced equipment, so that its products can remain popular in the first half of this year when the market is depressed.

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< p > < strong > "moving" is not a permanent solution < /strong > < /p >

In the face of increasing international trade friction and increasing production costs, many domestic labor-intensive enterprises, including Fujian enterprises, have moved production shops to other developing countries or relatively backward countries. From the current situation, this has played a certain role in the survival and development of enterprises. But in the long run, this "moving" approach is not a long-term solution for enterprise development. P

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< p > the experts of Fuzhou clothing association told reporters that the most fundamental reason for the frequent exposure of textile enterprises to trade surveys is that the scale of products produced by enterprises is too low to win the price advantage in the international market.

By winning the price advantage, the enterprise will fall into a passive situation. On the one hand, the trade friction will continue to happen. On the other hand, once the production cost goes up, the enterprise will not be able to survive without profit.

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< p > for many enterprises at present, "moving" can really alleviate these two embarrassing situations. But it is worth noting that if the enterprise "moves" is to continue to enjoy low cost to maintain its low-level product production, then the two embarrassing situation will eventually follow closely, and can not achieve "one move".

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< p > one of the facts that can not be ignored is that in recent years the labor costs of non developed countries are also rising. The analysis of the chamber of Commerce of Fujian textile and garment export base shows that in recent years, labor wages in Vietnam and Indonesia have risen sharply, among which Vietnam has risen from 40 US dollars per month to more than 200 US dollars this year, and, like China, with the improvement of people's living standards, the labor cost of these countries still has room for further growth.

In addition, in recent years, international trade protectionism has been heating up and many developing countries have been involved in it. So if enterprises still produce low-level products abroad, it will eventually be hard to avoid.

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< p > however, in a sense, "moving" has also won more time for the pformation and development of enterprises. If enterprises can adjust the structure and industrial upgrading through technological pformation and technological innovation, improve the added value and brand value and cultural value of products, and take the route of high-end production, then they will not be able to "move" or cope with the changing situation.

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