Sri Lanka Footwear Exports Showed An Increasing Trend In 2015

In the opening ceremony of the 2016 leather and footwear exhibition, Sri Lanka, Minister of industry and trade, said in the opening ceremony of the 2016 leather and footwear exhibition that the 2015 Sri Lanka leather and footwear products showed a strong growth momentum, with exports of $110 million, of which footwear exports accounted for 80%.

In addition, with the increase in the number of middle income people and the number of women employed, the sales volume of local shoes has also increased significantly.

As more and more people like sports lifestyle, the demand for casual shoes and sports shoes has accelerated the footwear industry.

The cost of producing sports shoes is far below the cost.

The processing cost of sports shoes

With a profit of up to 45%, the minister called on domestic shoe manufacturers and exporters to pay great attention to the export market of sports shoes.

According to Indira, the 2016 leather and footwear exhibition was held on 5 March this year at the Bandaranaike Convention Center, Colombo, where the Sri Lankan strategic development department, Export Development Bureau, Ministry of industry and trade were received.

The exhibition has 230 booths, attracting more than 30 international delegations to participate in the exhibition.

Indira, chairman of Sri Lanka's Export Development Bureau, said that Sri Lanka had processed products for many international footwear manufacturers, indicating that Sri Lanka's export of leather and footwear has great potential for development.

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In recent years, China's plastic footwear industry has been in a downturn year by year, and the large-scale production base of plastic shoes such as Wuchuan, Jinjiang, Zhenjiang, Jieyang and Fuzhou has been greatly reduced this year.

At present, China's plastic shoes are mainly made of rain shoes, slippers, beach shoes, sandals and some sports shoes and casual shoes, and the output is about 3 billion pairs in 2015.

Plastic shoes began to develop in the 50s of last century. At the time, local consumption was the main trend in addition to a few countries that supplied fashion or professional footwear for a certain amount of export trade.

By the age of 70, the newly rising developed countries in Asia began to occupy most of the capacity of plastic shoes, and began to shift to the coastal areas of China in the late 80s, and began to spread to China more.

By 2004, the extreme distribution showed that the annual output of the United States had dropped to 30 million pairs, and that of Europe was only 300 million. The high output of late developed regions such as Korea and Taiwan also dropped to 100 million or less, while China's output reached 1 billion 500 million pairs, occupying 60% of the world's capacity.

South Korea and Taiwan are no longer the major footwear producing countries. Western European production is declining rapidly. Mexico and Latin America continue to maintain a reasonable and strong position. Vietnam has grown rapidly to become a big shoe producing country.

It can be seen that plastic shoes have a wider market in China, and products gradually penetrate into the European market. But in recent years, the governments of the United States, the European Union and other countries and regions are constantly formulating and revising their existing plastic shoes safety standards and relevant laws and regulations, which undoubtedly raises the threshold for the export of plastic shoes in China.

On the other hand, the plastic shoe enterprises have brought technical obstacles. At the same time, with the increase of labor costs, land and other production costs and RMB appreciation in recent years, the advantage of plastic footwear products has been continuously weakened, and the track of history is strikingly similar. The plastic shoe industry is pferring to the new economy.

In terms of research and development of plastic shoes, most of our enterprises have the ability of independent innovation. But according to the reporters, the survey of footwear associations of China's Light Industry Crafts Import and export association shows that the average high-end products of plastic footwear varieties in China account for only 5.9%, 32.9% of middle grade and 61.2% of low grade.

In 2016, the global economic weakness continued, but the export of plastic shoes should be noted that the rise of the new scientific and technological revolution is the best time to restructure and adjust the industrial structure. The main export market for plastic products will still be restored. Breaking through trade barriers is the key. With the adjustment of production structure and the pformation of economic growth mode, if the core technology development capability of enterprises is in a leading position, it will open up a new way for the sustainable development of the whole plastic footwear industry.