How Can China'S Textile Industry Break Through Under The Haze Of "Tariff Parity"?

　　 Recently, the so-called "equivalent tariff" in the United States has been shrouded again, and enterprises focusing on foreign trade businesses have attracted market attention, including many textile and clothing enterprises.

　　 As an important contributor and participant in the global textile and clothing industry, China has long satisfied the global market demand with high-quality products and services, and provided American consumers with diversified consumption options. Cross border e-commerce and small parcels benefit millions of small and medium-sized businesses and ordinary families in the United States. In the face of unilateral bullying by the United States, organizations and enterprises in the textile industry responded positively and expressed China's attitude to resolutely resist in various ways.

　　 The United States cannot live without China, let alone the world

　　 At present, about 95% of the clothing sold in the US market is imported products, mainly from China (about 30%), Vietnam (13%), India (8%), Bangladesh (6%) and Indonesia (5.5%). As the "leader" in the global textile industry, China's textile industry has a complete industrial chain, strong production capacity and excellent technological innovation ability, and occupies a pivotal position on the world textile stage. The American market is highly dependent on Chinese textiles. From daily clothing to high-end industrial textiles, Chinese products are everywhere.

　　 Taking Shaoxing Keqiao as an example, as one of the important textile industry clusters in China, its products have shown strong competitiveness in the international market. Pan Jianhua, Chairman of China Light Textile City Group, said in an interview that under the Sino US trade game, some clothing enterprises' orders in the United States were affected. China Light Textile City will strive to dig out the domestic and foreign double cycle increment, and achieve foreign trade increment by expanding overseas trade strongholds, optimizing foreign trade services such as logistics and warehousing, and using overseas platforms to expand business; At the same time, we should firmly adhere to the three strategies of "market, digital and investment", do a good job in data resource integration and integration, focus on breaking through digital transactions, and use clothing sales to enable fabric sales to strengthen internal cycle support.

　　 An entrepreneur who has worked hard in the textile industry for many years said: "Our company's textile exports are mainly plush products, with an annual export of about 100 million dollars. No matter how the Sino US relationship changes over the years, the company's textile exports have not changed, but also increased year by year. And I am confident that no matter how the United States increases tariffs, the textile exports to our company will not change, and the textile exports to China will not change. Because China's textile industry has made irreplaceable contributions to the world for decades. " He said that China produced 70% of the world's chemical fibers and natural textile fibers. China produced all its own complete chains from textile machinery and accessories to textile auxiliaries to textiles, which is unique in the world. "China's textile industry is not afraid of the high tariffs imposed by the United States on China's textiles, or even the disconnection of the chain. The additional tariffs may be borne by the Americans themselves."

　　 K., President of the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) 5. Srinivasan also said that although American clothing importers are seeking alternative sources of procurement from countries with lower tariffs, many of these alternative options have higher production costs and often lack the required product categories or production capacity.

　　 Moving garment manufacturing back to the United States will also face major challenges. The cost of labor in the United States is much higher than that in other countries, and many of the necessary textiles for clothing production still need to be imported - and costs have now risen. In addition, the United States also faces a shortage of skilled workers in the clothing industry. Whether by raising import tariffs or expensive domestic production, the final result will be rising clothing prices, which in turn will drive up inflation.

　　 Although tariff has caused impact, "the sky will not fall"

　　 China is a super large economy. In the face of the impact of tariff hegemony from the United States, we have a strong anti pressure ability. In recent years, we have actively built a diversified market, and our dependence on the US market has declined. The People's Daily article pointed out that the share of China's exports to the United States in total exports has dropped from 19.2% in 2018 to 14.7% in 2024, and the decline in exports to the United States will not have a disruptive impact on the overall economy. For this trade conflict, many textile enterprises and institutions responded to their own impact and proposed relevant countermeasures.

　　 The relevant person in charge of Blum Orient, the leading enterprise of color spinning, said that in the past three years, the company has no direct export business to the United States, and the imposition of tariffs by the United States has no direct impact on the company. It is expected that the imposition of tariffs by the United States and Canada will still have a great impact on the global textile and clothing supply chain. As an upstream enterprise in the textile and clothing supply chain, it will be indirectly affected. In this regard, the company will actively develop sales in other emerging markets; At the same time, through innovative research and development of new colored spinning products, as well as through technological upgrading, improving product quality, reducing costs and other means, the company's irreplaceable in the global textile supply chain is improved to deal with potential trade risks.

　　 The relevant person in charge of Weixing Co., Ltd., a leading garment accessories company, said that the export regions of the company's international business are basically concentrated in Bangladesh, Vietnam and other countries or regions with low labor costs, and the business volume of direct export to European and American source countries is very low. Therefore, the direct impact on the company's business of the tariff adjustment of ready-made clothing and other goods in the end consumer countries or regions is limited; However, the boom of terminal consumption and changes in the international trade environment will have a certain impact on the textile and clothing industry. In addition, the company said that up to now, the cumulative amount of orders received by the company has kept growing year on year, but affected by the overall factors such as the prosperity of terminal consumption and the international trade environment, the current downstream industry is generally very cautious, and the company faces certain pressure in the short term.

　　 Yiwu Commodity City's exports to the United States in 2024 will mainly focus on textile and clothing, light industrial commodities and electromechanical commodities. As for the problem of profit space compression caused by the imposition of tariffs in the United States, merchants generally said that they could reduce the impact by increasing commodity prices, improving product added value, optimizing production processes, and enhancing their own competitiveness.

　　 When replying to investors' questions, the relevant person in charge of Rebecca, the "wig king" who is deeply involved in the international market, said that in recent years, the company's annual export to the United States is about 300 million yuan, accounting for about 25% of the company's sales revenue. Since the company has sales in Europe, Africa, South America and China, the impact of the US tariff increase on the company is limited and controllable.

　　 Practice internal skills and "concentrate on your own business"

　　 The data shows that from January to February 2025, China's cumulative textile and clothing exports fell by 4.5% year on year, including 2% decline in textile exports and 6.9% decline in clothing exports. The increase of tariffs will significantly reduce the price competitiveness of Chinese textiles in the US market, and some orders may be transferred to low-cost countries such as Vietnam and Cambodia. Small and medium-sized enterprises are the first to bear the brunt. The increase in tariffs has led to rising costs. Small and medium-sized enterprises with low profit margins can hardly bear the cost of tariffs, and the industry is expected to accelerate the clearance.

　　 Hemp textile industry occupies an important position in the export field of textile industry, and its development trend is also the focus of the industry. According to statistics, in 2024, China's flax yarn export to the United States will only account for 0.024% of the total export volume; Linen fabrics exported to the United States accounted for 0.910% of the total exports; The hemp bed products exported to the United States accounted for 33.353%. From these data, it can be found that the number of primary products such as gauze exported to the United States is very small, and the impact of tariffs can be said to be very small. However, the US market share of end products is relatively large.

　　 In the face of the impact and impact of high tariffs, relevant experts said that in the next step, textile and clothing export enterprises should strengthen cooperation and collaboration with upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain to jointly address the challenges brought by the imposition of tariffs by the United States. Establish long-term and stable cooperative relationship with raw material suppliers to ensure the stable supply and quality of raw materials; Strengthen cooperation with printing and dyeing, finishing and other enterprises to improve the overall quality and added value of fabrics; Keep close communication with garment manufacturers, timely understand changes in market demand, and adjust product structure. Through these measures, enterprises can maintain their competitiveness in the complex international trade environment and achieve sustainable development.

　　 At the same time, enterprises should take expanding domestic demand as a long-term strategy and give play to the advantages of the domestic super large market. This tariff increase in the United States has reduced the cost performance of some high-end textile materials that rely on imports, but it may provide alternative space for domestic high-end textiles. In recent years, there has been an obvious trend of domestic substitution in China's carbon fiber market, which is mainly due to the increased difficulty in importing carbon fiber during the epidemic, and the restrictions on carbon fiber exports to China by Japan, the United States and other countries, which provide space and development opportunities for domestic carbon fiber. In the face of this tariff shock, enterprises should take the initiative, practice hard, increase research and development efforts, and launch more competitive products.

　　 The cold winter is only temporary, the environment changes rapidly, and time is a friend, which is also the biggest turning point. In this trade war without gunpowder smoke, China's textile industry is writing its own answers with a tenacious attitude.