China'S Textile And Garment Exports Continued To Slide, But Import Yarn Grew Sharply.

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Clothing exports totaled about 19 billion 876 million US dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 16.33%, an increase of 58.19% over the month, and a total of 79 billion 657 million US dollars in textile and apparel exports in the 1-4 months, down 2.72% from the same period last year.

A sharp contrast to the continuous decline of textile and clothing exports is the import of cotton yarn in China. In 2015 1-3, China imported 590 thousand and 600 tons of cotton yarn, an increase of 15.26% over the same period last year. The total import of cotton cloth was 136 million 628 thousand and 600 meters, a decrease of 15.07% over the same period. This shows that the large increase of imported cotton yarn has a great impact on the whole cotton textile industry chain.

According to statistics from relevant departments, from September 2014 to March 2015, China

The import volume of cotton yarn was 1 million 10 thousand tons and 1 million 310 thousand tons respectively. In the same period of 2012/13 and 2013/14, cotton imports were 2 million 740 thousand tons and 1 million 880 thousand tons respectively. Cotton yarn imports were 1 million 60 thousand tons and 1 million 240 thousand tons respectively. Cotton imports in this year exceeded cotton imports for the first time in recent years.

As for the import volume of low-grade and low count yarn, the government's departments concerned should be aware of the threat and risk, and introduce measures as soon as possible to restrict and control the import of foreign yarn. Otherwise, it is not only the small and medium cotton textile enterprises and middlemen, but also harming the cotton growers' initiative and stabilizing the cotton planting area.

From the perspective of cotton raw materials, we do not restrict the influx of low-grade foreign yarn and do not restart the storage and sale of national cotton. This is to speed up the production of small and medium sized spinning mills and weaving mills and close down.

Recently, the rumor about the national plan to throw away the stock is again noisy. I believe that when the domestic cotton spot price is not up and the cotton price does not fluctuate significantly, the date of dumping will definitely be postponed. In addition, if the import of foreign yarn is not restricted by measures such as increasing tariffs and setting up import quotas for cotton yarn, the national cotton store will not be able to achieve the desired results. Domestic textile factories and garment factories are going to purchase cotton yarn with high quality and low price, such as India, Pakistan, Vietnam and Indonesia.

The space for China's cotton textile enterprises to upgrade their industries and adjust their product structure is very limited, and the yarn and cotton market can no longer take the old road of cotton.

From the survey, no matter what the government departments in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian and other government departments put forward "cage changing birds", or Shandong, Jiangsu, Henan and other textile enterprises "go to sea and go west", in the final analysis, they are aimed at reducing labor and production costs, reducing land and tax pressure. Products from 32 to 40 are mainly adjusted to 50S, 60S high or combed yarns, and from all cotton yarns to blending, differential fibers and new fibers (such as bamboo fiber yarn, Tencel, moor), new equipment such as compact spinning, turbo spinning, siro spinning and so on, to increase the number of cotton yarn and improve yarn quality.

Considering the serious surplus of China's 120 million spindles and the limited demand and market capacity of the high count yarn and new product market, and the lack of growth momentum, it is impossible to grab a "cake". Therefore, small and medium-sized textile enterprises still need to produce low and low end products to solve the problem of personnel employment and weaving factories and garment factories. According to statistics from relevant departments, the number of small enterprises in China's textile and garment industry accounts for about 90%.

Because

The difficulty of achieving high quality machine picking cotton in the mainland cotton area is objectively existing. And from the research and production of cotton seeds, the quality of Chinese cotton has caught up with and surpassed that of the United States and Australia in 3-5 years. In addition, the high spinning yarn of 60S or above has encountered bottlenecks. If the cotton yarn is not imported, the domestic cotton prices will be pressed by foreign cotton mills and exporters to the same level of West African cotton, Central Asia cotton and even India cotton (except Xinjiang hand picked cotton).

It is not conducive to cotton planting in 2016 and beyond, and it is also a shock to farmers' confidence. What about cotton pricing power and area stability?