Behind The Increase Of Home Textile Exports In Tongzhou

< p > recently, when I visited some home textile foreign trade enterprises with relevant personnel of Tongzhou District Business Bureau of Nantong, Jiangsu, many enterprises were faced with multiple troubles.

Ji Wei, director of the Tongzhou District Foreign Trade Bureau's foreign trade management section, believes that from the perspective of the development environment of the industry, labor costs and other problems such as continuous increase in production costs and financing difficulties can hardly be improved in the short term. The difference between domestic and foreign cotton prices is still widening, and the development environment of the home textile industry is still grim.

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< p > < strong > raw material price fluctuation and production cost growth < /strong > < /p >

< p > from the macro environment, in recent years, due to the weakening of the international market demand, the slow growth of domestic market demand, and the excessive cotton price difference at home and abroad, the operation of China's home textile industry has shown a downward trend, the growth rate of production has obviously declined, the export volume has decreased, and the performance of enterprises has been showing signs of decline.

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< p > from the small environment, the rising pressure of labor, raw materials, resources, environment and other cost elements is long-term and rigid, which has a greater impact on the development of SMEs.

This year, the fabric enterprises in Tongzhou are greatly affected by the price fluctuation of cotton yarn, and the situation is worrying.

A company's import and export volume reached US $22 million 938 thousand last year, ranking the top 30 of the total import and export volume in Tongzhou. However, the import and export volume in the first half of this year dropped by 44.7% over the same period last year.

According to the enterprise, due to the rising price of raw materials such as cotton yarns, orders were significantly reduced, and foreign customers began to shift to Vietnam, Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries.

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< p > < strong > low technology content, single product structure < /strong > < /p >

< p > home textile industry is one of the pillar industries of Tongzhou's foreign trade. Tongzhou District bedding base has formed a complete industrial chain integrating spinning, weaving, printing, dyeing, finished products, packaging and sales in six parts. However, most of the products of these home textile enterprises are located in the middle and low end, with low technology content and low added value.

Such a product structure can quickly open the market in the short term, but in the long run, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and other countries have low cost factors, and the competitiveness of Tongzhou's low-end home textile enterprises will gradually weaken.

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On the contrary, Jiangsu golden sun Textile Trading Co., Ltd., relying on a strong R & D team, has continuously developed new products with high technology content. The golden sun home textile design and Research Institute has also become the Nantong home textile product design and development service platform. The products designed have continuously occupied the high end home textile market and have won a higher profit.

Last year, the company achieved an export volume of US $11 million 261 thousand, an increase of 132.3% over the previous year.

According to the person in charge of the company, the order of the first half of this year was finalized at the beginning of the year.

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< p > < strong > labor cost rising. The problem of employment is highlighted: < /strong > /p >

After the Spring Festival, the recruitment market is gradually heating up. However, some small and medium-sized home textile enterprises in Tongzhou are experiencing difficulties in recruitment and labor shortage. Even after the Lantern Festival, workers are not yet fully in place. P

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< p > this problem is mainly caused by the continuous rise in labor costs. The wages of front-line workers in a home textile enterprise have risen to 4000 yuan ~6000 yuan, which makes the enterprises feel pressure, and it is difficult for them to endure. The loss of workers and business personnel in the workshop also brings difficulties to the continuous production and operation of enterprises.

At the same time, some large foreign customers have strict requirements for the employment of enterprises. For example, they must give workers five risks and one gold, arrange weekend weekends and so on, so that many home textile enterprises are under great pressure.

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< p > < strong > financing is difficult and expensive, which bothers enterprise development < /strong > /p >

< p > financing difficulties and expensive financing are bottlenecks for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises. Although the government has constantly introduced policies to promote financial services to increase the strength of small and medium-sized enterprises, but because SMEs have their own accounts opaque, lack of effective mortgage, pledge and other weaknesses, and commercial banks based on profit considerations, making it difficult for small businesses to obtain loans, mainly rely on loans between relatives or friends, or borrow from high interest rates from private sector, therefore, solving the financing bottleneck problem of SMEs is still a long way to go.

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< p > < strong > puzzle 5 < /strong > /p >

< p > < strong > the exchange rate is changeable and the profit space is tight > /strong > /p >

< p > RMB has depreciated this year, but the exchange rate has begun to rebound recently.

In July 21st, the central parity of RMB against the US dollar was 6.1547, which rose 21 basis points compared with the previous trading day, and ended the trend of "six consecutive losses".

The appreciation of the renminbi has caused great losses to export enterprises, because the appreciation of the renminbi has prompted the price of Chinese goods to rise in overseas markets, and the profit margins calculated by the enterprises in local currency will shrink, causing the cost of the export of enterprises to rise and affecting the competitiveness of enterprises in the international market.

In 2013, a domestic textile enterprise lost 2 million yuan in exchange rate plus high tariffs, which made the enterprises uncompetitive in price. Therefore, they are prepared to increase the proportion of domestic sales this year to alleviate the difficulties.

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< p > < strong > how does the government support enterprises to get out of the predicament? < /strong > /p >

According to the global situation, the international economic situation is still not optimistic. There are unstable factors in the political situation, frequent regional turbulence and the continuing downturn in international demand. P

Therefore, the State Council and the Ministry of Commerce have issued supportive policies to support steady growth of foreign trade and help enterprises out of difficulties.

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< p > actively developing the international market and driving the steady growth of exports.

The business sector actively strives for all kinds of exhibitions, broadens the marketing channels for foreign trade, contacts and consolidates the existing export markets, makes friends with old friends, makes new friends, and organizes enterprises to go out to open up international markets such as the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Russia, South America and Africa, and further expand the export scale.

According to the characteristics of Tongzhou's home textile industry, we encourage enterprises to take part in some professional exhibitions on the basis of Canton Fair.

Overseas exhibitions will be guided by exhibitions supported by key cities in Jiangsu and Nantong, and enterprises will be encouraged to participate in the exhibition.

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< p > promote product pformation and upgrading and optimize the structure of export commodities.

We should focus on platform construction and brand cultivation, and promote enterprises to optimize product mix and promote pformation and upgrading of enterprises.

Tongzhou home textile will rely on the golden sun to create a public testing and testing platform to provide a reliable test and testing service for the enterprises in the Tongzhou home textile export base.

At the same time, efforts should be made to encourage enterprises to cultivate their own brands, international famous brands and the Canton Fair brand, so as to help enterprises actively declare the international brands that focus on cultivating and developing, and enhance their international fame and market competitiveness.

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< p > we should make good use of supporting policies and encourage enterprises to become bigger and stronger.

Actively carry out policy advocacy training to ensure that policy propaganda without blind spots.

We should strengthen the research on supporting policies for foreign trade, actively guide and help enterprises declare projects, and do everything possible to win financial support for projects.

With policy support as the starting point, we will strive to cultivate foreign trade leading enterprises.

We should improve the linkage mechanism with customs, CITIC and other departments, and guide enterprises to use policies to reduce the cost of import and export trade, resolve trade risks and improve the level of import and export trade.

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