Breaking Through The Three Barriers Of Textile And Garment Export To Enhance The Quality Standard Of Local Textiles

Breaking through barriers, textile and garment exports need to cross "three barriers".

Recently, the European Union, the United States and Australia and other countries and countries have

Issued a series of regulations and standards, 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.

The export will encounter "three barriers".

Export profit space compression

Recently, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has made a final revision of its textile labeling 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.

Continuous elevation in the United States

At the same time, the international environmental protection textile association OEKO-TEX also announced the 2014 edition of OEKO-TEXStandard100 eco environmental textiles testing standards and limit values recently. The new version of the standard will be more stringent for the supervision of perfluorooctanoic acid PFOA.

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

The standard requirements

At least 90% of the weight of the products and accessories is textile fiber. The weight of indoor textiles and cleaning cloth is 90% of textile fiber, yarn and fabric or non-woven fabric. Leather products require at least 90% of the weight is genuine leather material.

"Generally speaking, the implementation of these regulations has set three thresholds for export of textile and clothing products."

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

Shi Zhengzhi, Secretary General of Quanzhou textile and Garment Association, believes that the increasingly stringent regulations and barriers in foreign markets will not only affect the export of local textile and clothing, but also increase the burden of enterprises.

In the world trade, it is unfair and unfair competition, 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.

The frequent occurrence of trade barriers is 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.

"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%.

"Compared with previous years, trade barriers in the European and American markets have been frequent, especially in recent years.

The demand is 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.

"Years ago, we paid great attention to products.

Environmental protection 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.

Cai Zhuolong, chairman of Fujian dragon Clothing Co., Ltd. also admitted that the increasingly stringent regulatory requirements of foreign markets have increased the cost of product testing to some extent. "As long as the finished products are detected before, the relevant materials and products are tested before, during and after childbirth. The customers in Europe and America are particularly strict, and sometimes they are referred to the third party testing organizations to test our products."

In this regard, the company has specially cooperated with the fiber inspection bureau of Fujian Province, 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.

In the face of increasingly stringent regulations and barriers in foreign markets, Shi Zheng Zhi reminded the export enterprises to speed up pformation and upgrading. When developing and designing products, they should not only consider the product's shape and function, but also actively adopt green technology to improve the competitiveness of enterprises according to 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.

"In recent years, with the increasing attention of consumer goods safety projects, the United States has constantly improved 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 relevant importing countries.

Technology, quality, safety, environmental protection, packaging and labelling standards and regulations, combined with the production situation of enterprises, and constantly improve the quality management system, do not blindly pursue beauty, low price and neglect product quality.

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.

Zhong Ruichun, assistant director of Jinjiang colorful fox clothing and Weaving Co., Ltd., told reporters that the company's products are mainly exported to Europe and the United States. Consumers in Europe and the United States have strong spending power. They pay attention to dressing but not demanding fashion.

The quality of the fabric is very unique to natural fabrics and green products.

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

"In the selection of fabrics, we choose cotton products that European buyers like, which are comfortable and not easy to deform after special treatment."

"To deal with export barriers, we must first improve the quality of products so that they 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."

In the view of Shi Zheng Zhi, facing the new standards, new regulations, local

Enterprises should stress the pressure as the driving force and work together to upgrade the level of the whole industrial chain, because textile and apparel are industrial chains. Some new standards are for the clothing of terminal products. To adapt to the new standards, we must start from the source, namely from the spinning and weaving links, especially the dyeing and finishing links.