Textile And Garment Development In Southeast Asia Press "Reprieve Key"

After several transfers, the global textile industry center has become the most potential area for developing global textile and garment production base. A sudden outbreak of the new crown pneumonia has pushed the development of the textile and garment industry in Southeast Asia to a reprieve. The world's multinational retail business, European and American physical stores closed, sales of textiles and clothing fell sharply, and the booming development of Southeast Asia's textile and garment industry was in a predicament.

The global textile and garment manufacturing center has shifted to Southeast Asian countries. After several transfers, the global textile manufacturing center has the potential to grow into an important global textile and garment production base. The development of the global textile industry is in line with the industrial development process. The modern cotton textile industry originated from the British Industrial Revolution in eighteenth Century. In the early twentieth Century, the center of the global cotton textile industry was transferred to the United States. After the Second World War, the global textile manufacturing center turned to Japan. After 70s, it moved to Korea, China, Taiwan and China, Hongkong and other Asian regions. In 1990s, with the improvement of China's opening up to the outside world and its accession to WTO in 2001, China's foreign trade developed rapidly, and China became the global textile manufacturing center. In recent years, due to the resource advantages of labor cost and other resources, Southeast Asian countries have begun to undertake some low-end manufacturing capacity in other countries, and the textile and garment production and export trade in Southeast Asia has grown rapidly, and has potential to grow into an important global textile and garment production base.

The epidemic will push the development of Southeast Asian textile and clothing to a "postponed key". According to an analysis released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and development, the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on Global trade shows that the global textile and garment industry will lose more than 1 billion 500 million US dollars (about 10 billion 400 million yuan), and the textile and garment industry in Southeast Asia, which is supported by export trade, will be greatly affected. Because of the spread of the epidemic in Europe and America, many international garment brands based on Southeast Asia have cancelled or postponed orders. Vinatex group, the largest clothing manufacturer in Vietnam, is planning to take up to 50000 workers on leave. Vietnam's Ministry of industry and trade data showed that orders for Vietnamese textiles and footwear in April 2020 and May will drop by 70% compared with the same period last year, and orders from thousands of garment factories in Bangladesh have been cancelled. Bangladesh Clothing Export Promotion Bureau data show that in March Bangladesh's clothing exports fell by more than 20% over the same period. The extension of India's comprehensive blockade led to almost stagnation in the textile industry chain. The India Garment Manufacturers Association said that the textile industry in India will be laid off by 10 million people, and textile and garment production, export and employment in Kampuchea and Burma are generally under pressure. Southeast Asia's textile and garment industry is in a predicament due to a sharp decline in global demand.

Southeast Asian countries have introduced measures to help garment manufacturing industry. To cope with the impact of the epidemic, Southeast Asian countries have adopted self-help measures. The government of Kampuchea stipulates that some garment manufacturing enterprises can enjoy a "tax exemption" for half a year to a year, and give living subsidies to the unemployed workers. The government of Burma has announced the establishment of a new Burma 100 billion yuan (500 million yuan) new coping fund, giving priority to garment processing and manufacturing industries. The export industry will not need to pay 2% of the export prepaid income tax until the end of the fiscal year.

The development of textile and garment industry in Southeast Asia is facing a severe international competition environment. The global textile industry has undergone many shifts. Various links in the industrial chain have been grasps by different countries and regions in different aspects of the value chain. Europe and the United States are terminal brand retail centers, and China is still the center of textile manufacturing. Southeast Asian countries are mainly in the low-end manufacturing sector of the textile industry chain. Although the share of textile and clothing production and export in Southeast Asia has increased rapidly in the international market in recent years, its high value-added industry links are weak, and the dependence on raw materials and terminal markets is high.

The repair of the textile and garment industry in Southeast Asia needs the cooperation of the global industrial chain. At present, there are signs of decline in European cases. Many European countries are in the process of lifting some restrictions on epidemic prevention and control in early May. Germany will gradually "unseal" this week. Spain, Austria, Denmark, Czech and other countries have indicated that they will relax the closed measures. The global demand decline is expected to improve, but the epidemic has accelerated the downward trend of the economy. The emerging economies of Southeast Asia, including the Southeast Asian economies, are relatively fragile, and are likely to become new sources of risk under the impact of the epidemic. Cotton textile and apparel industry chain of various countries should cooperate with each other and support each other to resist the negative impact of the epidemic on the global textile and garment industry. (cotton cloth)