How To Develop Russian Textile And Garment Market

Opening up Russia Spin Clothing market statistics Lu Jian Russian Federation, referred to as the Russian Federation or Russia, is located in the northern part of Eurasia, across most parts of Eastern Europe and northern Asia. The land is adjacent to China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Finland and other countries, and has a long and common border with the northeast of China. Russia has an area of 17 million 75 thousand and 400 square kilometers, ranking first in the world.

The total population is 144 million 800 thousand.

Russia's economic stability and improvement after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's economic growth has been declining for many years. Although the radical reform of the Yeltsin era shock therapy has not yet worked, but with the continuous rise of international raw materials and crude oil prices, the Russian domestic economy began to recover from 1999. In 2000, GDP achieved the highest value of Russian economic reform, reaching 10.5%. And this growth trend continues to this day.

The overall performance of the Russian economy in 2004 was good. According to the Russian Bureau of statistics, the actual GDP growth rate in Russia in 2004 was 7.1%. The main driving force for economic growth comes from strong domestic demand and sustained growth in exports of oil and natural gas. In 2004, Russia's private consumption grew by 11%, pushing domestic demand by 10.4%.

In the first few months of this year, Russia's economic growth slowed down significantly: GDP grew by 4.9% in the first quarter, of which industrial production grew by only 3.9%, much lower than the 7.4% growth in the same period in 2004. However, Russia's exports continued to grow rapidly as international oil prices continued to soar in the 1 quarter.

Russian textile industry is relatively lagging behind the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian textile and garment industry declined rapidly, only after the 1998 financial crisis began to pick up, but its development level is still not high, the annual output value of about 10 billion U.S. dollars, only to meet the domestic market demand of 15%-20%. This provides a great market opportunity and space for foreign enterprises.

Russian textile industry It accounts for 49% of Russia's light industry, 30.5% of the sewing industry, and the leather fur processing industry. leather shoes Together with the wool combined processing industry, it constitutes the three major sectors of Russian light industry. The three departments have 2818 large and medium-sized enterprises, with nearly 900 thousand employees, and all share holding systems, which account for 1.6% of Russia's total industrial output value.

With the privatization process, textile enterprises have gradually evolved into private enterprises or joint-stock enterprises. Ivanovo is a well-known textile industry in Russia, which accounts for more than 50% of textile and textile production in Russia.

At present, Russia has about 200 garment processing enterprises, most of them produce casual wear, and 45% of western Russia's suits are produced by ten factories only. In recent years, Russian clothing enterprises are also facing the problem of rising raw material prices and upgrading of production equipment. However, due to its advanced fashion and production technology, domestic clothing still occupies a large proportion in the market of middle income consumers, despite the impact of imported goods. Russia has now entered the stage of production and sale of medium and high class Western-style clothes. For example, the Bull J Vic women's suit factory has transformed the production line of low-grade Western-style clothes into a more upscale suit production line. The lining is made of viscose fiber with high import quality instead of synthetic polyester fiber, the plate making process is more advanced, and the finishing equipment is basically automatic. At present, this grade of clothing accounts for 50% of the total output.

The equipment of Russian textile enterprises was basically the equipment used in the former Soviet Union, consisting of the former Soviet Union products, some pre spinning equipment and shuttle looms, the East European product airstream spinning, and European products such as spinning, printing and dyeing.

Nearly 30% of the Russian textile industry has been used for more than 20 years. Only 30% of the equipment and no more than 20% of the equipment meet the level of early twenty-first Century, and 80% of the production equipment needs are satisfied by imported products. Some enterprises have adopted new textile, weaving or finishing machines made in Europe. China's textile machinery products are also exported to Russia.

Now Russia's textile industry has the ability to maintain the leading position in the market of flax, wool, leather, fur and chemical fiber fabrics, but the output and quality of garments, knitted fabrics and shoes are lagging behind foreign countries. In order to develop textile production, the Russian government is planning to restructure its textile industry from the system and structure, and give strong support to the fund so that it can produce more genuine and high quality products as soon as possible. At the same time, regional economic cooperation should be carried out through encouraging investment and investment, so as to shorten the production and trade of Russia's textile industry as soon as possible and the distance of textile production in the world's advanced countries.

According to WTO statistics, in recent years Russia's imports of textiles and clothing have increased rapidly, and the export of textiles and clothing has increased steadily. The following table is about the situation of Russian textile and clothing in recent years: unit: billion dollar information source: WTO Russia imported textile and clothing accounts for 2.21% of the total merchandise imports in 1995, and accounted for 7.60% of the total merchandise imports by 2003. Russian textile market demand for consumption grew faster.

Textile market has huge potential. Russian market has great demand for textiles. It consumes about $17 billion each year and consumes about 36 billion US dollars. According to Russian official statistics, the Russian clothing market consumes 4 billion 800 million square meters of cotton cloth per year, 900 million square meters of silk, 600 million pairs of socks, 6 billion 300 million pairs of shoes, and a large number of household textiles such as clothing and pillow towels, bath towels, bedding and so on. In addition to relying on supermarkets, department stores and clothing stores, Russia's consumption of textiles and garments is an important place of consumption for Russian distributors and ordinary residents.

Textile market: because of the sluggish production of Russian textile industry for many years, domestic products can not meet their market demand and import dependence is large. In addition to cotton and pure wool fabrics and some industrial textiles, other textiles such as silk, artificial silk and curtain fabrics are mainly imported from China, Southeast Asia and Turkey.

Take Moscow, St Petersburg and Novosibirsk as examples, the textile market is almost occupied by the products of these countries and European countries.

Clothing Market: Russians are a nation of dressing. The Russian clothing market has a fast fashion color, fierce competition, complex market structure and uncertain factors. The gap between the rich and the poor is very large, and the composition of the national population is complex, and the consumption level is diversified. The consumer groups in the Russian clothing market can be divided into four grades: the high consumption class that buys the internationally famous brand clothing accounts for about 4% of the total population; the result of the large-scale privatization of Russia has formed a large middle class with an annual income of more than 6000 dollars, which accounts for about 20% of the population. It shows the considerable purchasing power of the Russian residents and belongs to a stable consumer group, which is the main sales target for the Chinese clothing enterprises to enter the Russian market. Their demand for clothing is good quality, innovative design, and can embody their personal qualities. Most of their shopping places are higher grade stores or supermarkets. In order to purchase medium and practical general consumption level, which accounts for 46% of the total number of residents, they pursue novelty, exaggeration and avant-garde clothing. The low-income class who buys cheap clothing accounts for 30% of the total number of residents.

Russia's foreign trade is developing rapidly. Russia is a country with high dependence on foreign trade, and exports account for 40% of GDP.

Russia has trade relations with nearly 100 countries in the world. The EU accounted for 34% of Russia's foreign trade volume, ranking first.

Textiles and clothing account for about 7.6% of Russia's total imports.

The latest statistics of the Russian Customs Committee of textile information weekly show that in 2004, Russia's import and export volume amounted to 205 billion 50 million US dollars, an increase of 40.3% over the previous year, of which exports amounted to US $136 billion 930 million, a significant increase of 43.2% over the previous year, with an import volume of US $68 billion 130 million, an increase of 34.8% over the previous year. The annual trade surplus of US $68 billion 800 million, a 51% increase over the previous year, is mainly attributable to the huge gains in the international oil and metal market.