Vietnam'S Excessive Import Of Footwear Industry Presents "Two Days Of Ice And Fire"

< p > over reliance on imported leather raw materials has weakened the competitiveness of the footwear industry "a href=" http://www.91se91.com/news/index_p.asp > Vietnam "/a" in the domestic and overseas markets, but this situation can not be changed for a while, insiders said.

According to the introduction, imported leather has increased the cost of shoe making in Vietnam and hindered the development of export that can create employment. However, Vietnam is still looking for effective solutions to deal with the shortage of leather raw materials and investors' lack of interest in leather industry.

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< p > local media recently reported on a shoe maker in Vietnam, Pingyang province. Although the shoe maker had obtained an export contract, he lost about $100 thousand because of inferior leather materials.

The head of the company said it was difficult to control the quality of the imported raw materials, but her company had no choice but to import it, because the quality of the homemade leather was not up to the standard of producing high quality shoes.

She says local raw materials are usually made of small pieces of Bull Hide, and many of them are damaged.

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Moreover, the supply of low quality domestic raw materials is not enough to meet the needs of local shoemaking. Vietnam, a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > leather < /a > a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > shoes less /a and box and bag Association (Lefaso), vice president of Diep Diep, said that the leather produced in our country can only meet the needs of shoemaking manufacturers 20% to 30%.

Therefore, Vietnam's heavy reliance on imported leather can only continue.

According to Lefaso, Vietnam spent 2 billion 730 million dollars in the first 9 months of this year to import raw materials for shoes and clothing production from China, Korea, Taiwan, China and Thailand.

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< p > data from Hu Zhiming Footwear Association show that shoe manufacturers in the city have reported a decrease of about 20% since the beginning of this year.

Nguyen Van Khanh, director of the Leather Association of Hu Zhiming, said that because Vietnam's investment in leather processing required a lot of money and investors had to prepare for the first one or two years without making money, it was difficult to develop leather processing industry.

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Less than P, intentional investors will also be able to retreat because they find that they are not competitive with China and lack competitiveness.

Hu Zhiming city plans to build a leather industrial park, but it has been shelved. That's why, he said.

Hu Zhiming currently has about 100 shoe makers, but there are only 10 leather processing plants, with a capacity of about 10 tons per day, according to the association.

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The total value of footwear production in Vietnam in the first 11 months of this year is US $7 billion 400 million, which is 14.2% higher than that in the same period last year, according to data from the P.

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< p > Vietnam's footwear industry uses a very low proportion of machinery, and shoemaker makes a lot of labor. Sewing machines and cutting machines are all operated manually.

At present, domestic manufacturers are facing stringent quality standards for buyers of shoes from European and American markets.

Therefore, Vietnam's domestic shoe enterprises have begun to consider the application of modern technology in the production management process to reduce risks.

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P Vietnam plans to adopt new equipment and technology, strengthen training and promote trade so as to promote the modernization of shoemaking industry.

In a recent report on "Vietnam's footwear industry outlook 2017", an analyst described Vietnam's shoe industry as having benefited from rapid growth in exports in recent years.

The growth of shoe exports in 2012 increased by more than 10% over the previous year.

And shoe production is expected to increase by 8% in 2013-2017 years.

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