The Export Situation Of Textile And Garment Enterprises Is Still Grim

In January 2009, China's textile quota to the United States will expire. Will this stimulate the export of textile and garment enterprises? How much impact does the global financial tsunami have on the textile industry? How to deal with it? Yesterday, the reporter visited the third phase of the 104th Canton Fair to understand the latest export situation of textile and garment enterprises. focus 1 the cancellation of textile quota to the United States is not expected to be high at 10 am yesterday, the reporter came to Pazhou pavilion a and B, and found that the passenger flow in the exhibition hall of textile and clothing was significantly reduced compared with the first and second phases. "It's quite cold. There are no visitors for two days." Nanhai Yuanhuang socks Co., Ltd. has been taking North America (except the United States) and South America as the main export markets. Li, manager of the foreign trade department of the company, said in a chat with reporters that the number of overseas merchants who came to the booth for consultation and negotiation during the two days of the exhibition was significantly reduced, and he was relatively sad about the export situation next year. "Last year, we expected exports to rebound in the second half of this year, but who knows it's worse than in 2007. Now we estimate that next year will be worse than this year." manager Li is not "cold" about the expiration of China's textile quota to the United States in January 2009. "Last year, customers told us that this year's quota will be cancelled, but the result will still wait until 2009. Will it really be cancelled next year? This needs further observation. " He pointed out that the financial crisis triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis has greatly changed the consumption and overseas investment mentality of overseas consumers and investors. In particular, the latter has changed the purchase of goods originally planned to purchase in China at home. Chen Shaofeng, an exhibitor of Zhaoqing beauty Textile Co., Ltd., also believes that even if the United States liberalizes China's textile export quota to the United States, due to the low confidence of American consumers, the situation that domestic textiles and clothing swarmed into American ports and docks a few years ago will not occur. "After market liberalization, it is expected that the export volume will increase correspondingly in the third quarter of next year, but the volume is not expected to increase much." He said that the occurrence of the financial crisis, on the contrary, will automatically regulate the export behavior of enterprises, making it difficult for the United States to obtain an excuse to file anti-dumping or punitive tariffs on Chinese textiles. focus 2 new and old customers do not accept price increases the reporter found that, compared with home appliances, ceramics and other industries this autumn fair, there are few textile and garment enterprises to raise prices. Many enterprises reflect that, affected by the financial crisis, the purchasing power of customers has been relatively reduced, and the price of raw materials has declined in the second half of this year, which objectively increases the difficulty for enterprises to raise prices. "As soon as you hear that you want to raise the price, new merchants are staring at you." Yan Litian, sales director of Nanhai junbai hat bag industry Co., Ltd., said that although various raw materials decreased in the second half of the year, there were still many increases compared with the same period of last year. According to the reason, enterprises need to increase prices to obtain corresponding profits. However, considering the severe situation of foreign trade, the enterprises still maintain the level of last year in terms of export quotation. She said that although enterprises are faced with many unfavorable factors, such as the implementation of the new labor contract law, rising prices of raw materials and RMB appreciation, they can only rely on the internal digestion of enterprises to solve the problem, "it is better to earn less than enterprises can't start work." relevant people of Nanhai Jialishi underwear also said that although all the products exhibited this year are new design products, the added value of the products is not too high because the main customers of the enterprise are concentrated in Chile, Russia and other markets, so the quotation has no plan to increase temporarily. "Old customers with high quality requirements can bear the original higher price, but if you want to raise the price, new and old customers will not be satisfied." And for the current global financial tsunami, this person believes that the temporary impact is not big. heads of several textile and garment enterprises also said that with the shrinking of overall overseas demand and the rise of textile and garment industries such as India and Vietnam, the domestic textile and garment industry is facing increasing competition pressure. Under the influence of comprehensive factors such as weak domestic sales growth and slowing international demand, enterprises should first maintain a certain amount of exports before they dare to consider whether to raise prices and the extent of price increases. focus 3 setting up factories overseas to reduce the impact of financial tsunami setting up branches overseas to reduce the impact of financial tsunami. A few years ago, when the domestic labor force, land, energy and so on increased sharply, many Foshan Textile and garment enterprises have called out the slogan of "set up factories overseas". During the interview, the reporter found that some textile enterprises in the South China Sea have set up overseas companies or overseas marketing agencies in Latin America and other regions, and their role has been greatly played in the face of the financial tsunami. "A few years ago, we set up an overseas company in Panama, a Latin American country." Manager Li of Nanhai Yuanhuang socks told reporters that Panama has become a purchasing and distributing center for many foreign goods in the South American market. By setting up companies there, they can not only avoid possible anti-dumping, but also make higher profits. "South American businessmen placed an order with us in Panama, and the quotation was higher than that of domestic companies." He said that through the way of overseas companies receiving orders and domestic production, effectively reducing the links of international trade intermediaries and exporters can not only ensure the orders of enterprises, but also effectively increase the profits of enterprises.