Textile And Clothing Exports Need To Cross The "Three Sills"

< p > recently, the European Union, the United States and Australia and other countries and countries issued a series of regulations and standards for textile and clothing, and put forward higher requirements for related products.

It is reported that Quanzhou is China's major textile and garment production and export base, with an annual export volume exceeding US $5 billion. These countries account for more than half of Quanzhou's textile and garment exports. The frequent occurrence of barriers will have an impact on the export of local textile and garment enterprises.

Insiders remind that relevant enterprises need to know the contents of laws and regulations in a timely manner and do well in coping with them.

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< p > recently, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has made a final revision of its textile label rules, including the rules of fiber content and country of origin identification.

The new rules for the implementation of the textile fiber products Identification Act require that the general name and percentage of textiles, the names of producers or sellers and producers or processing countries should be clearly marked on the labels of some textiles sold in the United States.

In the United States, while increasing the barriers to textile imports continuously, OEKO-TEX, the international textile and environmental protection association, recently announced the 2014 edition of OEKO-TEX Standard 100 eco environmental textiles testing standards and limit values. The new version of the regulation will be more stringent for perfluorooctanoic acid PFOA supervision.

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< p > in addition, Australia's "good environment choice label" (GEC) recently issued a new standard for environmental friendly textile leather certification.

The standard requires that at least 90% of the weight of textile and clothing products and accessories are textile fibers. The weight of indoor textiles and cleaning fabrics is 90% of textile fiber, yarn and fabric or non-woven fabrics. Leather products require at least 90% of the weight of genuine leather materials.

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< p > "generally speaking, the implementation of these regulations has set up three thresholds for exporting textile and clothing products."

Analysis of the industry, this "three threshold" includes safety threshold, green threshold and label threshold.

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< p > Shi Zhengzhi, Secretary General of Quanzhou textile and clothing trade association, believes that the increasingly stringent regulations and barriers in foreign markets not only have a certain impact on the export of local textile and clothing, but also increase the burden of enterprises, and are the unfair and unfair competition of China's textile and clothing in the world trade. But objectively speaking, China's textile and clothing products are still in the middle and low grade, and there is still a considerable gap compared with the developed western countries.

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< p > frequent trade barriers are bound to raise higher requirements for products exported to the countries concerned. Export enterprises must increase the corresponding registration and inspection fees in order to adapt to the new standards and regulations. At the same time, they also increase the export risks of enterprises and reduce the price competitiveness of their products.

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< p > "although the export market has been warmer this year, the export profit has not increased, but it has slipped."

Some textile and garment export enterprises told reporters that in the past, the profit of OEM could reach 15% of the processing fee, but now it has been reduced to less than 10%.

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< p > "compared with the previous years, the trade barriers of" a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > Europe and the United States market < /a > have been frequent in recent years, especially the demand for the surface materials is getting higher and higher.

Paramount (Quanzhou) Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. is a company that locates the European and American markets and mainly produces outdoor clothing. Xiao Shengxin, the business manager of the company, says that compared with other categories of clothing enterprises, outdoor clothing has more requirements for fabrics.

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"P >" many years ago, we paid great attention to the product's fabric < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > environmental protection < /a > sex. In recent years, there are many European countries and regions of the enterprise, the product fabric made harsh demands.

Recently, a guest in Norway appointed a product fabric to be higher than the environmental protection grade. Compared to the ordinary fabric, this fabric costs three yuan a metre.

After nearly ten years of foreign trade, Xiao Shengxin can not help but sigh. Compared with the past, the profit margins of foreign trade are much less now, and the requirements of foreign merchants for products are also harsh, which makes the enterprises feel very stressed.

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Cai Zhuolong, chairman of Fujian P A, also admitted that the increasingly stringent regulations in foreign markets have increased the cost of product testing to a certain extent. "Before testing the finished products, we need to test the related materials and products before, during and after childbirth. The customers in Europe and America are particularly strict, and sometimes they will give the third party testing agency to the company to test our products," she said. "Http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp", "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp".

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< p > for this purpose, the dragon company cooperated with Fujian Fiber Inspection Bureau, which largely guaranteed the quality of the products and increased the inspection cost of the products.

"The cost of raw materials and labor has been rising. Now, in response to trade barriers, even the corresponding registration and testing costs have increased. In order to ensure profits, we have to raise the prices of products."

Cai Zhuolong said.

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In the face of increasingly stringent regulations and barriers in foreign markets, Shi Zheng Yang reminded the export enterprises to speed up pformation and upgrading. In developing and designing products, we should not only consider the product's shape and function, but also actively adopt green technology to enhance the competitiveness of enterprises in accordance with the inspection standards of exporting countries. At the same time, we should set up the main body consciousness of enterprises, increase the intensity of self-examination and self-control of export products, and reduce export resistance. P

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< p > "in recent years, with the increasing attention of consumer goods safety projects, the United States has constantly promoted the safety standards and supervision of consumer goods, especially imported consumer goods, and has frequently announced the recall of China's textile and footwear products."

In this regard, the industry suggested that, on the one hand, enterprises should promptly and fully grasp the standards and regulations of importing countries concerning the technology, quality, safety, environmental protection, packaging and labelling of textile and clothing, and constantly improve the quality management system combined with the production situation of enterprises.

On the other hand, we should pay close attention to the recall dynamics of CPSC notification in the US, enhance risk awareness and standard concept, and organize product design and R & D, material procurement and supplier evaluation, and safety and environmental protection project inspection in strict accordance with the requirements of import country strength.

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Zhong Ruichun, assistant director of Jinjiang colorful color fox garment Weaving Co., Ltd., told reporters that the products of the company mainly exported to Europe and the United States. Consumers in Europe and the United States had a strong consumption ability. They dwell on dressing but not demanding fashion. They paid more attention to fabric and texture, and had a soft spot for pure natural fabrics and green products. P

Therefore, the company's selection of upstream materials suppliers is also strict, so as to ensure product quality.

"In the selection of fabric, we choose the cotton products that European buyers like, after special processing, comfortable and not easy to deform."

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< p > "to deal with export barriers, first of all, we must improve the quality of products and make them conform to export standards, but more importantly, we must strive to integrate product styles and designs with international standards."

Cai Zhuolong told reporters that facing the volatile export market and many competitors, blindly trying to win by lowering prices is not a permanent solution. We must boldly create new products to attract customers' attention on the basis of rigorous market research.

"Now buyers are very concerned about the environmental protection of products. We naturally have to work hard in this area to attract them with typical green products."

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In the view of Shi Zheng Zhi, facing the new standard and new regulations, the local textile and garment enterprises should take the pressure of strain as the driving force and work together to upgrade the level of the whole industry chain, because the textile and garment industry is a chain. Some new standards are for the clothing of the terminal products. To adapt to the new standard, we must start from the source, that is, from the spinning and weaving links, we must attach importance to the P, especially the dyeing and finishing links.

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