Pearl River Delta Foreign Trade Textile Enterprises Slightly Cold

" Dongguan Exports of textile and clothing remained stable. Yao Weilin, President of the city textile and garment industry association, told reporters that clothing exports to the United States were in a steady state and there was a slight slight increase. However, Southeast Asian markets such as Kampuchea, Vietnam, India and so on seized orders, threatening Dongguan textile and garment manufacturers.

　　 US textile and garment imports drop sharply

The economic data disclosed by the US Department of Commerce in April showed that it was February. clothing Imports of textiles fell by 4.1% over the same period last year. Among them, the import and export of clothing by small and medium-sized enterprises amounted to US $1 billion 900 million, down 4.2% compared to the same period last year, and imports of textiles amounted to US $2 billion 300 million, down 4% compared to the same period last year.

The US Department of Commerce announced that the amount of textiles and clothing imported from China by SMEs in February this year was $1 billion 900 million, down 10.7% from the same period last year, since March last year.

The biggest drop. At the same time, it is noteworthy that the United States Ministry of Commerce Also known as the main supplier of textile and apparel products in the United States, India's textile and garment exports increased by 20.3%, becoming one of the ten largest suppliers of clothing and textiles in the United States.

According to the data released by the General Administration of Customs of China, the export of textiles and garments in February was 10 billion 880 million US dollars, down 34%. Among them, textile exports amounted to 4 billion 220 million US dollars, down 28.4%, and clothing exports 6 billion 660 million US dollars, down 37.1%.

For Guangdong's clothing trade, the main export market, the EU's data are also not optimistic. According to the statistics of the Customs Department, Guangdong exported garments and accessories to the EU in the 1-3 months of this year, 110 million US dollars, down 18% from the same period last year. Industry analysts believe that the decline in clothing exports to the EU market has been affected by policies. On the one hand, the EU has implemented the directive on the prohibition of the use of azo dyes. On the other hand, the EU's universal product safety directive came into effect in January this year, and strengthened the safety inspection of fabric made garments, reducing the export volume of such clothing products to the EU by 5%.

　　 Multiple factors lead to decline in textile and garment exports

"The export market is hard to do." A head of garment export enterprises in Dongcheng said so. He believes that a number of new manufacturers are emerging in the US, which are affected by the real economic revival, to a certain extent, to reduce the export share of China's textile and clothing.

For the European Union and the United States, the market of clothing imports fluctuated, Yao Weilin was not surprised. According to his analysis, the fluctuation of garment export market in addition to the revival of industrial manufacturing in the United States, the rise of manufacturing industry in Southeast Asia, and the setting up of Chinese textile and garment enterprises to emerging markets and other factors led to a fall in the export volume of China's textile and clothing products to the United States.

However, Yao Weilin believes that although the competition between European and American markets and emerging markets has brought chill, it will not shake Dongguan's clothing industry. He said that the Southeast Asian market has the advantages of labor and land, and there are about 10 member enterprises to set up factories in the Southeast Asian region. However, the garment industry in Dongguan has accumulated time. "Enterprises will not be attracted to the past because of the advantages of labor, and the functions of marketing and R & D remain in Dongguan".