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In April 1, 2019, Japan stopped giving preferential tariff preferences to China's Japanese goods.

It is estimated that the Japanese side's move will lead to an increase of nearly 300 million US dollars in the tariff cost of our goods exported to Japan, which will weaken the competitiveness of our commodities in the Japanese market to a certain extent.

Japan is the main export market of China's textiles and garments. At present, China's textile products, footwear and other imported products account for about 6 of the Japanese market share.

Under the current circumstances, are Chinese textile and garment enterprises and Japanese funded enterprises in China feeling well?

Competitiveness of Chinese textile enterprises is squeezed

According to the data provided by the China Textile Import and export chamber, in 2018, the market share of textiles and clothing in Japan was 58%, down 3 percentage points from the same period last year, while Vietnam's share was 12.6%, an increase of 1.4 percentage points over the same period last year.

What is more serious is that while Japan abolished the GSP treatment in China, it still retained the GSP treatment of Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam, Kampuchea, Indonesia and Bangladesh. These countries are our main competitors in the Japanese textile and garment market, and China's export competitiveness to Japan is squeezed.

According to statistics, after the abolition of the GSP in Japan, the tariff rate of imported textiles and raw materials in Japan will be 1.06 to 14.2 percentage points higher than that in Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Kampuchea.

At the same time, due to the rising labor costs and other production costs in recent years, the average labor cost of textile and garment industries is 1 times to 3 times higher than that of Southeast Asian countries.

It is reported that Zhejiang has been deeply aware of this change as a major export province to Japan.

Textiles and garments are the dominant export products of Zhejiang. According to the statistics of Hangzhou customs, in 2018, there were 6078 visa and 808 million yuan worth of textiles and clothing products exported to Hangzhou customs area, 3785 copies of chemical industrial products, 1 billion 867 million yuan worth, and two categories of products accounted for 44% of the Zhejiang visa value.

According to this estimate, after the implementation of the new deal in April 1st this year, only two kinds of export products will enjoy a 80 million yuan reduction in tariff in Japan.

According to the customs statistics of Wenzhou, from January 2018 to March 2019, about 720 copies of the GSP were issued by the enterprises in the Wenzhou customs area, with a visa amount of US $19 million 891 thousand and 900. According to the average tariff discount rate of 3%, about 596 thousand and 800 US dollars were deduct from the Japanese enterprises.

The export products mainly include footwear, electromechanical products and so on.

Among them, 487 copies of footwear products, the visa amount of 12 million 780 thousand dollars, 189 copies of mechanical and electrical products, the visa amount of $4 million 862 thousand and 300.

These two categories of exports account for about 88.7% of Wenzhou's share of Japan's visa sharing and enjoy a tariff relief of 529 thousand and 300 dollars.

Japan no longer gives preferential tariffs to China's Japanese goods, and the impact of Fujian textile enterprises is also great.

According to statistics, in 2018, the Xiamen Customs issued 4853 copies of the certificate of origin of the GSP, involving 298 million 350 thousand and 500 US dollars in goods, and the main export products were textiles and garments.

On the basis of the original goods being subject to tariff reduction and exemption from the GSP certificate of origin, the export business of the Xiamen area will increase about $14 million 917 thousand and 500 in tariff costs after the GSP graduated from Japan.

Japanese enterprises in China feel "centrifugal force"

Some experts have analyzed that Japan's abolition of tariff treatment by GSP will not only affect the profits of Chinese textile products to Japanese exports to some extent, but also impact the Japanese textile enterprises in China.

In fact, China's exports of textile and apparel products to Japan are still largely controlled by the Japanese funded enterprises in China's advantageous position in the supply chain.

For some Japanese funded enterprises that set up production bases in China, the increase of customs tariffs will enable them to reconsider the allocation of global production bases. In order to save procurement costs, Japanese importers will import more textile and clothing to countries that still enjoy tariff relief, especially in Southeast Asian countries.

At the same time, the Japanese government has also formulated a series of preferential policies to encourage Japanese enterprises to move back from abroad to the mainland.

To promote the revitalization of Japan's local economy, the Andouble Administration formulated an economic growth strategy to encourage enterprises to move their headquarters and factories to small and medium-sized cities in Japan, and issued corresponding incentives and preferential tax policies.

Whether or not we can get rid of price advantage is the key.

Japan is China's fourth largest export destination country and an important trading partner.

Japan has implemented the GSP scheme since 1971. In April 1, 1980, it granted the GSP treatment to China. It is one of the GSP preferential countries that give preferential tariff rates to the largest export commodities in China. Japan's GSP has played a great role in promoting the export of Chinese commodities to the Japanese market.

However, in November 2016, the Ministry of Finance officially announced the readjustment of the "preferential tariff" system in Mexico. The new standard excludes 5 countries from China, Mexico, Brazil, Malaysia and Hong Kong from the list of tariff relief lists of developing countries.

Expert analysis shows that GSP is a universal, non discriminatory and non reciprocal tariff preferential treatment for developed countries to export manufactured goods and semi-finished products to developing countries.

When the economic growth rate of developing countries or regions reaches a certain level, developed countries believe that these countries or regions can graduate, and such concessions will be abolished.

Although China's textile products that have "graduated" will lose their price advantage, they will still maintain certain comprehensive advantages in pformation and upgrading.

"From the perspective of total volume of trade, although the benefits of a single GSP are increased by a single product, the total export volume of China will not be greatly affected by the gradual upgrading of exports to the medium and high-end sectors.

Therefore, strengthening product quality and R & D strength will help to increase exports to Japan and offset the impact of the abolition of the GSP limit.

Some professionals believe that our government should guide enterprises to give full play to their advantages in terms of labor quality, industrial clusters and supporting capabilities, constantly optimize product structure, enhance product quality and brand value, speed up industrial upgrading, technological development and independent brand building, and pform the low cost advantage into comprehensive advantages such as complete industrial chain, talent gathering and huge market, and gradually get rid of the dependence on price advantage.

The head of a garment manufacturer from Shandong, told reporters in the China textile daily that relying on price advantage to earn meager processing fees is facing too many uncertain risks and is not a long-term solution for enterprise development.

He said that in the past, a considerable portion of its enterprises came from the Japanese market, mainly including uniforms, tooling and so on.

Through the processing of raw materials and the deep cooperation with Japanese purchasers, the company has a comprehensive and profound understanding of Japan's exquisite surface accessories, and has mastered the advanced plate making and processing technology in Japan.

At present, the enterprise has made great progress in the process of technology improvement and equipment replacement. It has first-class production capacity and product quality, and is gradually reducing the scale of external processing and manufacturing, so as to benefit from its own brand.

Why do Chinese companies in Japan have confidence in the Chinese market?

As for Japanese textile enterprises in China, some experts pointed out that most Japanese companies did not abandon the Chinese market. Their withdrawal from China was not a real withdrawal, but an adjustment. They only removed some sectors with weak competitiveness and poor profitability.

As early as 2016, when the Ministry of Finance officially announced the re adjustment of preferential tariff system to the country, the Changfeng island of Changfeng island said that half of the industry still attaches importance to production and processing business in China.

For example, there is a phenomenon of color deviation in additional production, although it has been gradually reduced, but it has not been completely eliminated.

Therefore, we continue to retain processing production business in China. "

It is worth noting that most Japanese companies entered China many years ago, based on the layout of China's industrial economy at that time.

However, at present, China's economy has maintained a steady growth momentum, and market consumption has been expanding to high-end products, especially in the context of the pformation and upgrading of the textile industry. We also hope that offshore funds will gradually be invested in high-end manufacturing sectors.

Today, Japanese investment enterprises in China have to face the pressure from China's industrial pformation and upgrading.

Asano Tae, President of the Asahi Asahi Trading Company, said that it is necessary to widen the high-end products sales business of Asahi Asahi textiles trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., and make full use of its deep yarn processing and fabric supply capability in Japan, and continue to invest in China's textile and garment industry in a completely new form of cooperation.

He said that despite the severe investment environment, he is confident of the future Chinese market.

At the same time, our country has not given up the Japanese market.

At present, China is actively promoting negotiations on the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RECP) with Japan and other countries, and China, Japan and Korea free trade area. It also needs to study opportunities ahead of time for Japanese export enterprises and related industry organizations, and actively provide relevant suggestions for negotiations, and create better opportunities and environment for export products through better rules of origin.