Clothing Prices Are Still Shouting.

Cotton prices fluctuated sharply from 14 yuan per kilogram to 8 yuan per kilogram last year. Faced with this situation, cotton growers and textile enterprises appear to be "at a loss". Ensuring cotton growers' enthusiasm for planting and stabilizing cotton prices has become their unanimous wish.

　　 Cotton grower Worry

In September 14th, the sky was raining. Reporter in Ji'nan A farmland near the new town of Jiyang County sees that the growth of large corn is particularly gratifying under the moistening of the rain. In another farmland close to another, Zhao Guangfu, the farmer who is playing the cotton bolls in the field, is not happy. "Now it is the period of boll opening. If there is even a cloudy day, if the light is insufficient, the cotton bolls will not be able to run normally. The cotton in the field is so wet now that it can't sell a good price even if it is not high quality cotton.

What worries Zhao Guangfu more is the "diving" cotton price: "in November last year, cotton prices rose to a catty of 7 yuan and 2, and I thought that planting cotton could make money. This year planed the corn into cotton, but who would have thought that the price of cotton would drop to 4 yuan a month in a few months."

In order to stabilize cotton market In March this year, the eight departments of the national development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Agricultural Development Bank of China jointly issued the "2011 cotton temporary purchase and storage plan", and decided to implement the temporary cotton purchase and storage system from 2011. According to the plan, temporary storage will be implemented in 13 main cotton producing provinces (districts and cities) in 2011. The temporary storage price will be 19800 yuan per ton of standard grade lint to the warehouse. Once the market price is lower than the above level, the state will carry out temporary storage and purchase of cotton. Since the purchase of new cotton, the domestic cotton market price has been lower than 19800 yuan / ton for 5 consecutive trading days. A few days ago, the national development and Reform Commission announced that according to the relevant provisions of the 2011 cotton temporary purchase and storage plan, the China Cotton Storage and Storage Corporation started the temporary storage and storage of cotton in September 8th.

Zhao Guangfu has been reassured by the state's purchase and storage. "I reckon, at this price, I should not lose money, but I can't earn much money. Originally planned, if the cotton market is good, there will be more than a few acres. Now think about it, next year is to grow grain! "Zhao Guangfu said.

　 Spinning enterprises lose money in production

The reporter then went to a workshop of the knitwear Limited by Share Ltd of the head of Ji'nan, and saw the workers working continuously. Ren Quanyuan, general manager of the company, said: "before the cotton price rose in April last year, we made an order with some manufacturing enterprises according to the cotton price at that time. At present, the cotton price has not affected the operation of the" head of state ". As a textile enterprise integrating weaving, dyeing, finishing and garment processing, the main raw material for knitting is cotton yarn, cotton yarn is processed through cotton, and cotton prices directly affect the price of cotton yarn, thereby affecting the business profits of enterprises. "I am afraid that the next days will not be better." Ren Quan Yuan also revealed his worries.

Last year, a large increase in cotton prices led to increased costs, many textile enterprises began to buy large quantities of raw materials. But since the price of cotton has fallen sharply, the inventory of textile enterprises has also seen a sharp drop in prices. The more inventory the company has, the more it loses.

It is understood that because of the fluctuating cotton prices, many textile enterprises dare not make long lists. An industry insider said: "the current textile enterprises are mainly short orders, which has become a common phenomenon. Most customers' orders are within 3 months, even foreign customers' orders are no exception."

There is also a headache for textile enterprises. Even now, even if money is lost, orders are still very few. This is due to customers' psychology of "buying up but not buying." "Customers expect cotton prices to continue to decline, and in order to wait for price lows, it is very difficult to do business lately," he said. Ren Quanyuan said.

　 Clothing prices are still shouting.

Now that cotton prices have fallen sharply, will the price of clothing be lowered? Many consumers are looking forward to getting tangible benefits, but this may be wishful thinking.

At present, it is the season when autumn clothes are listed on a large scale. Reporters visited several large shopping malls in the provincial capital, and found that the price of autumn clothes collectively rose this year. A woman who is choosing clothes told reporters: "almost the same style of skirt, remember last year is 399 yuan, but this year it sold 449 yuan!"

Ren Quanyuan said that the transformation of cotton into clothing has a price transmission process. After the cotton was collected, it was first spun into cotton yarns by the spinning mill, and then woven into cloth by the cloth mill. The printing and dyeing plant was printed and dyed, and finally sold to the garment enterprise for processing. It usually takes three or four months. That is to say, the clothes made now are used as early as this spring cotton. The main reason for the increase in clothing prices this year is not because of raw materials, but because of the increase in labor costs and transportation costs. In fact, cotton price is only part of the price composition of clothing, accounting for less than 20%, and the labor cost is rising by 80% this year. Therefore, the drop in cotton prices can not affect the price of clothing at all.

At present, the industry chain of domestic textile industry belongs to the date kernel type, and there are fewer enterprises in the two stages of industrial chain design and marketing links, and there are many enterprises in the middle manufacturing link. Manufacturing profit is relatively thin, which is most constrained by cost and is also most vulnerable to fluctuations in raw material prices. And clothing manufacturers at the terminal can solve the cost pressure of raw materials through brand. "The price of brand clothing has long been measured without cost. As long as quality is maintained, customers will accept it even if the price is raised." A clothing salesperson said so.