Textile And Clothing Exports Encounter Technical Barriers Again

At the beginning of this year, the EU issued a REACH amendment to confirm that from February 3, 2021, more than 0.01% of NPEO's textiles will be banned from the EU market.

Textiles are the dominant export commodities of our city.

The new regulations will have a greater impact on our textile and garment exports.

According to the introduction, NPEO is a surfactant, widely used in industrial cleaning agents and emulsifiers.

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Treatment agent, household cleaning agent, metal coating process and so on.

NPEO enters the environment and decomposes into toxic environmental hormones. It interferes with endocrine and belongs to carcinogens.

Previously, the EU's restrictions on NPEO content were limited to industrial cleaning, household washing, paper making, personal care products and so on.

This is the first time that textiles are included in the restricted category.

According to the analysis, under the background of "remanufacturing" in European and American countries, there will be more and more opportunities for "positive confrontation" between the export products of our city and its local industrial products.

If we fail to meet these technical standards, our export enterprises will not only be more difficult to maintain the share of the international market in the future, but also the space of the domestic market may be grabbed by foreign counterparts.

Data show that in 2015, the export volume of textile yarn fabrics and products in the main export commodities of the city was 4 billion 277 million US dollars, accounting for 18.7% of the total exports of the city, and 3 billion 872 million of garments and accessories, accounting for 16.9% of the total exports of the city.

The EU is an important regional economic organization of Jiaxing's export.

Public information shows that in 2015, the total annual export volume of Jiaxing's main export markets to the EU was 5 billion 242 million US dollars, accounting for 22.9% of the total exports of the city.

Therefore, the revision of the REACH regulation will affect many export enterprises in Jiaxing.

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Data from the General Administration of Customs show that in the first 2 months of 2016, the total value of China's imports and exports was 3 trillion and 310 billion yuan, down 12.6% from the same period last year (the same below).

Among them, exports were 1 trillion and 960 billion yuan, down 13.1%; imports 1 trillion and 350 billion yuan, down 11.8%; trade surplus 615 billion 900 million yuan, narrowed 15.9%.

In February, China's import and export value was 1 trillion and 430 billion yuan, down 15.7%.

Among them, exports were 821 billion 800 million yuan, down 20.6%; imports 612 billion 300 million yuan, down 8%; trade surplus 209 billion 500 million yuan, narrowed 43.3%.

Although exports have not yet recovered, the result of a common industry judgment is that foreign trade will continue to go through a period of cold winter, and enterprises seem to have gradually adapted to it.

"The export is bad. Yes, it is very conservative now that customers are placing orders overseas. Because the economic situation is not good, it needs to spend the winter," said a sales person in charge of a well-known household appliance company in Shunde, Guangdong, who did not want to be named.

He told reporters that the situation of business failures in Shunde has been different from the past one year, and there seems to be a slight improvement in recent business failures.

The callback of the RMB exchange rate gave them a sigh of relief.

It is worth noting that over the past few years, textile and other labor-intensive enterprises have been considering labor costs and gradually moving to Burma, Vietnam and other places around China.

However, as the main supply base of the world's household appliances, China's manufacturing capacity in other areas has not yet threatened China.

The foregoing Shunde foreign trade personage discovered that because of the labor cost consideration, there are also Mexico, Eastern Europe and other places of household electrical appliance production capacity, and is still moving to China.

"The estimate of the collapse is almost the same, and it should not be worse now," the source said.

For foreign trade enterprises, the core policy is exchange rate and export tax rebate.

The former affects export competitiveness and profit, while the latter affects cash flow.

Now it seems that these policies are gradually tilting towards exports and are expected to play a role gradually.