Current situation of textiles in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Challenges faced by export trade

The textile industry comprehensively responds to the challenges after 2007/08

Rationally judge the textile trade situation after 2007/08

The signing of China-EU and China-US textile agreements, It has brought a stable trading environment for our textile exports and ensured the orderly development of our textile trade. Since the beginning of this year, especially in the second half of the year, corporate exports have maintained steady growth, export prices have increased, export efficiency has been improved, and structural adjustment has achieved significant results. Enterprises generally report that a stable and predictable trade environment has enhanced customer confidence and prompted the return of orders. Therefore, despite macroeconomic policy adjustments such as exchange rate fluctuations and tax rebate rate reductions this year, China's textile exports have still achieved positive results in terms of scale and efficiency. healthy development. Judging from the current order reception situation of enterprises, it is expected that this steady development trend will continue in the first half of next year. At the same time, as the China-EU agreement is about to expire at the end of next year, if relevant policies are not clear by then, China's trade with Europe in the second half of next year is likely to be affected accordingly as companies wait and see, delay shipments, etc.

Although China's exports to Europe and the United States have remained stable since 2006, the growth of exports to some neighboring European and American countries such as Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Mexico has been abnormal. Due to restrictions imposed by Europe and the United States, a large amount of Chinese goods are exported to neighboring countries. Once the 2007/08 agreement is terminated, if the country does not take proactive management measures, this part of the trade will inevitably surface, causing China's export volume to increase and prices to decrease again. The chaotic situation provides excuses for Europe and the United States to use special safeguards, anti-dumping measures and other means to impose restrictions on China.

Europe and the United States have obvious intentions to use anti-dumping, countervailing measures and other means to impose restrictions on China's textiles after 2007/08. Once implemented, China's market share in Europe and the United States will be severely weakened. Representatives attending the meeting believed that anti-dumping and countervailing measures would be much more harmful to China's textile exports than simple quantitative restrictions. In particular, state-owned enterprises will be severely affected due to the constraints of non-market economy status provisions. The current trends in Europe and the United States are a very dangerous signal, which should attract the attention of the government and industry.

The rise of the textile industry in neighboring countries cannot be ignored. As the world's largest textile and apparel producer and exporter, China has a complete textile industry chain, outstanding industry scale and production capacity, and its comprehensive competitiveness in supply capacity, service levels, response speed, supporting scale and infrastructure is at the forefront of the world. However, it should be noted that the competitiveness of the textile industry in many developing countries, especially those in neighboring Asian countries, is constantly improving, and China's cost advantage continues to decline. At the same time, the governments of these countries are also taking encouraging measures to promote the improvement of the competitiveness of their textile industries. The rapid development of the overall strength of its textile industry has provided convenience and possibility for large European and American importers to implement global procurement strategies and quickly transfer orders. Since the implementation of the China-EU and China-US textile agreements, neighboring Asian countries have benefited the most. It is foreseeable that once the external trade environment faced by China changes suddenly, these countries will be able to quickly fill the market space left by China.

Enterprises with serious anti-dumping and countervailing threats are in urgent need of changing their growth methods

As for the response after the expiration of the agreement, the participating companies have a highly unified opinion, that is, "stability is above all else." Early last year, The chaos cannot be repeated.

Enterprises unanimously stated that it is not appropriate to spend too much time discussing the issue of "to control or not to control". The government and industry should take precautions and conduct full research, discussion and demonstration on the situation after 2007/08 as soon as possible, and Immediately start research on specific management plans, come up with feasible management methods in advance, continue to manage the export of sensitive products after the expiration of the agreement, ensure a smooth transition after the expiration of the agreement, and maintain the stable situation brought by the two agreements. .

The China-EU textile agreement is about to expire at the end of next year. Starting from the second half of next year, China's exports to Europe may fluctuate again, which will inevitably affect the utilization rate of categories exported to Europe next year and bring consequences to export companies and importers. greater uncertainty. In order to avoid a recurrence of the chaotic situation early last year, representatives at the meeting suggested that the government and chambers of commerce formulate relevant plans in advance.

The government and chambers of commerce should effectively support and help textile companies improve their ability to respond to foreign anti-dumping and countervailing measures. Up to now, the impact of foreign anti-dumping investigations on China's textile and apparel export industry has been relatively small in terms of the companies involved, the amount, and the scope of products. In addition, in the past few years, enterprises have been focusing on responding to special restrictive measures on textiles. Therefore, they are relatively lacking in understanding of foreign anti-dumping rules and response experience, and they know very little about countervailing knowledge.

With the expiration of the China-EU and China-US agreements, anti-dumping and countervailing measures are likely to become a serious threat to China's textile export companies in the next five or even ten years. Therefore, the government and chambers of commerce should take measures Support and help enterprises enhance their response capabilities. Representatives at the meeting suggested that at the government level, the country should set up a special fund for anti-dumping and countervailing lawsuits to encourage and support companies to respond; on the other hand, the chamber of commerce should give full play to its professional experience and advantages in organizing anti-dumping lawsuits and provide assistance to companies. Provide guidance and consultation on response work, and strengthen the popularization and training of anti-dumping and countervailing related knowledge and rules.

Enterprises themselves should accelerate the transformation of growth methods, comprehensively enhance competitiveness, and achieve sustainable development.

Companies participating in the meeting said that the fundamental response for China's textile export enterprises is to speed up structural adjustment, improve product quality, increase added value, improve service levels, strengthen R&D and design, specialize, internationalize operations, create independent brands, improve marketing capabilities, Fulfill social and environmental protection responsibilities and other aspects to enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of enterprises and promote the sustainable and orderly development of the entire industry.

Representatives pointed out that structural adjustment cannot be accomplished in a day, and successful enterprises do not have only one model. Enterprises should show their talents within the national macro-strategic framework, make full use of their own different resources and advantages, and seek the development path of their own enterprises.