Domestic Clothing Capacity Relocation New Global Market Began Layout

Zero tariff policy to attract domestic garment enterprises to open factories in Southeast Asia

At present, Europe, North America and other markets are labor-intensive products in some Southeast Asian countries.

Such as the implementation of zero tariff policy, and the export of similar products to maintain more than 10% of import tax, which makes overseas buyers prefer to purchase from overseas factories of Chinese enterprises, thereby greatly reducing their own sales costs.

At the three phase of the 117th Canton Fair, which was opened on the 1 day, many textile and garment export enterprises hit the mark of "we have factories overseas".

How should we view this new trend? As one of the representative areas of China's labor-intensive industries,

Has it already entered a dangerous period of large capacity to move out?

On the booth of Suzhou Hengrun Import & Export Co., Ltd., you can see the words "processed products in Kampuchea, looking forward to cooperate with you" in Chinese and English. The picture shows the whole picture of the factory. In the booth of Zhejiang Fu Xi Textile Co., the billboard lists the details of domestic factories, Kampuchea factories and Burma factories, and the layout of pnational production is clear at a glance.

For this behavior, business analysts believe that Southeast Asia as a new market force, labor costs are indeed greater than domestic advantages.

Liu Wei, deputy general manager of Suzhou Hengrun import and Export Co., said that the monthly salary of Kampuchea labor force started at around 120 dollars, while the Yangtze River Delta region was basically between 600 US dollars and 800 dollars.

Wu Weiqing, sales manager of Fu Xi Textile Co. Ltd. said that even after considering overtime and other expenses, the monthly income of workers in Southeast Asia is around 220 dollars, which is still much lower than that in China.

At present, the company has more than 200 domestic factories, and two overseas factories have more than 1000 people, forming a "upside down" situation.

But unlike external speculation, labor prices are not the main driving force for Chinese enterprises to develop factories overseas.

Many enterprises told reporters that the lack of industrial support, the local hydropower infrastructure remained to be improved, and the number of workers' labor skills increased greatly.

There is no obvious advantage for enterprises to make comprehensive production costs overseas.

Take Hengrun as an example, overseas factories are mainly responsible for the final garments, all the fabrics and spare parts are pported from China, while the high-end products are still left at home. In Fu Xi, the production efficiency of domestic factories is about 2.5 times that of overseas factories, which almost completely disappears the labor cost advantages of individual workers.

"In our industry, it is not necessary to view overseas factories with capacity pfer, because the fact is that Shanghai and domestic factories are not substitute relations, not overseas and domestic ones.

Overseas factories are more new capacity and new channels for Chinese garment manufacturing, and they are more complementary to domestic capacity. "

Liu Wei said.

In fact, for most textile and garment enterprises in China, the trade access threshold of developed countries such as Europe and the United States is the main reason to attract them to accelerate the pace of factory construction overseas.

A number of domestic apparel enterprises have said that at present, the European and North American market places zero tariff policies on labor-intensive products such as clothing, shoes and hats in some Southeast Asian countries, and maintains more than 10% import tax on similar products in China. This makes overseas buyers more inclined to purchase goods from overseas factories of Chinese enterprises, thereby greatly reducing their selling costs.

"This is more like a natural adjustment in the global market and a channel for pformation and upgrading of domestic enterprises.

As a traditional industry, we are going through a climbing period. One of the elements of pformation is to achieve better market layout on a global scale.

Liu Wei said.

Statistics show that in the first quarter of this year, China's clothing exports showed sharp fluctuations, down 12.5% in January, 99.4% in February, 35.4% in March, and 35 billion 790 million dollars in clothing exports in the whole quarter, a slight increase of 2% over the same period last year.

Among them, the export growth rate to the EU is only 0.5%, but the export growth to ASEAN is as high as 13.5%.

Despite confidence, we must face up to the challenge.

at home

It seems that the catching up pace of overseas emerging markets has not stopped, and the time window for Chinese garment enterprises can be described as fleeting.

Liu Wei said that over the past few years, domestic enterprises have been accelerating the shift of products to high-end products. The innovation of product capability and the leading level of technology are the fundamental guarantee for the co-existence of overseas factories and domestic enterprises.

Wu Weiqing said that pferring and pferring production to the northwest and Northeast China is also an effective way. "After all, there is no need for the industry to break down, and only the enterprises that have been lost will continue to persist in the clothing industry."

How to seize this fleeting time window and quickly upgrade Chinese garment production capacity is the key to the current garment enterprises.