China'S Textile And Apparel Exports To The United States Face Challenges

Recently, China Textile Import and Export Chamber released data showing that in 2015, China

Exports to the United States increased by 6.7% over the same period last year, with gratifying achievements.

In the same period, China's textile and apparel exports decreased by 4.9% year-on-year.

Spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce

At the press conference, textile and clothing were the traditional Chinese tradition.

I hope this year's textile and clothing exports to the US will continue to grow, but there are three difficulties.

"We must make greater efforts to maintain sustained growth in textile and clothing exports this year."

Shen Danyang said frankly.

First, due to the slow recovery of world economy, the weak international market demand, and the restriction of rising domestic factor costs, China's textile and garment exports have declined overall and the growth rate of US exports has slowed down.

For example, from the 2015 European and American textile and clothing import situation, EU imports dropped 8.8 percentage points, and the US import growth rate was only 4%.

The two is that some industries and orders are pferred to low-cost countries such as Southeast Asia and South Asia, making the textile and garment industry of the surrounding countries rapidly rising and occupying part of our space for the export market of the United States.

"However, it should be noted that some textile and garment enterprises in Southeast Asia are also enterprises invested by the Chinese side."

Three, the depreciation of currencies in some countries has caused the passive appreciation of RMB and weakened the price competitiveness of China's products.

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According to the European Bureau of statistics, EU clothing imports began to recover after a year of silence in 2015, as the euro fell sharply against the US dollar.

In December 2015, EU clothing imports continued to decline, but the year-on-year decline began to shrink. The total imports of clothing decreased by 1.6% compared with the same period last year, much lower than the 9-11 month 6.2-11.5%.

If imports continue to recover in the 1-2 months of 2016, the EU's clothing imports are expected to rebound in the coming months.

In 2015, the number of garments imported from China by the European Union decreased by 12.5% over the same period last year, and the number of garments imported from other regions increased by 1.3% over the same period last year.

In December, the EU's imports of clothing from China fell by 0.2% in dollar terms, the first decline since July last year.

The European Union's imports of clothing from other regions decreased by 3.7% compared with the same period last year, or less than 4.2% in November.

In dollar terms, imports of EU clothing fell by 3.6% in December 2015, down from 7.4% in November.

In 2015, EU clothing imports and imports decreased by 4.6% and 8% respectively.

In Euro terms, imports increased by 9.9%.

In December 2015, the EU clothing import price fell by 2.05% over the same period last year, the biggest decline since July last year (6.4%).

China and other regions have benefited from the revival of the EU's clothing import market in December.

Imports from China decreased by 10.5% over the same period last year, down from 16% in November, and imports from other regions increased by 4.5% over the same period last year, an increase of 1.3% over November.