The Textile Chamber of Commerce and the Light Industry Chamber of Commerce jointly held the 2023 Light Textile Industry Foreign Trade Outlook Symposium

The Textile Chamber of Commerce and the Light Industry Chamber of Commerce jointly held the 2023 Light Textile Industry Foreign Trade Outlook Symposium

In order to strengthen the study and judgment of the foreign trade situation of the light textile industry in 2023 and promote the high quality development of the light textile industry, on February 14, the Textile Chamber of Commerce and the Light Industry Chamber of Commerce held a meeting in Beijing Jointly held the 2023 Textile Industry Foreign Trade Outlook Symposium. The meeting was chaired by Zhang Xian, vice president of the Textile Chamber of Commerce. Liu Hongyang, director of the Light Textile Division of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Commerce, and Li Wenfeng, vice president of the Light Industry Chamber of Commerce, attended the meeting and delivered speeches. At the meeting, experts from ChinaExport Credit Insurance Company, Beijing Yabao Road International Trade Chamber of Commerce and other units, and heads of relevant branches of the Textile Chamber of Commerce and Light Industry Chamber of Commerce discussed the foreign trade situation of the light textile industry, They exchanged and shared the risk situation and underwriting support of the textile and apparel industry chain, Russian market opportunities, and the operation of the major commodity industries.

Liu Hongyang, director of the Light Textile Division of the Department of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Commerce, said that my country’s traditional advantageous industries such as textiles and garments and light industry achieved steady growth last year, and their performance exceeded expectations. In 2023, the risk of world economic recession will rise, the growth of external demand will slow down significantly, the international supply chain pattern is also accelerating the restructuring, and the foreign trade development environment will be extremely severe. The main contradiction in my country’s foreign trade field has changed from last year’s supply chain obstruction and insufficient contract performance to the current weakening foreign demand and declining orders. However, my country’s economy is recovering steadily and has great potential, and the fundamentals of long-term positive foreign trade have not changed. In the future, the Ministry of Commerce will make every effort to strengthen trade promotion, deepen trade innovation, develop green trade, stabilize the foreign trade industry foundation and other tasks, optimize and introduce new trade policies, help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency, continue to improve the comprehensive competitiveness of foreign trade, and more We will vigorously promote the stabilization of scale and optimal structure of foreign trade and stabilize the supporting role of exports in the national economy.

Vice President Zhang Xian of the Textile Chamber of Commerce said that my country’s textile and apparel exports have developed steadily in the past three years since the epidemic, highlighting the resilience of the industry’s development. Exports in 2022 will obviously show a trend of first high and then low. Despite the sharp decline in the fourth quarter, the cumulative exports for the whole year still increased by 2.7% year-on-year, setting another record high. The ASEAN market has surpassed the United States for the first time to become China’s largest market and the biggest highlight. In 2023, the external environment will become more complex and severe. Insufficient external demand and the trend of “de-Sinicization” have become prominent challenges. The operation of textile and apparel foreign trade will be further put under pressure, with an obvious downward trend in the first half of the year, especially the first quarter. But at the same time, my country’s textile and apparel industry still has strong endogenous competitiveness. In the future, we should promote the steady increase in the international market share of high value-added products and accelerate the industry’s transformation and upgrading. Explore innovative growth points in trade and achieve high-quality development of textile and apparel foreign trade.

Li Wenfeng, Vice President of the Light Industry Chamber of Commerce, said that last year, the overall foreign trade exports of my country’s light industry industry increased from high to low, which was basically in line with expectations. my country’s light industry export products, markets and domestic enterprises’ export performance are clearly differentiated, with footwear, outdoor and luggage all bucking the trend and maintaining rapid growth. This year, business expectations are generally cautious. Judging from the orders on hand, thanks to the local governments organizing groups to go overseas to grab orders and expand the market at the end of last year, the overall order situation has improved. Regarding the main difficulties faced by the industry, firstly, the cost of raw materials and fuel is still relatively high, and the comprehensive cost pressure of enterprises is still great; secondly, the overall market demand is still relatively weak; thirdly, the pressure of enterprise shortage of labor is still great, and fourthly, the development of international market and difficulties in grabbing orders; fifth, the uncertainty of the international political and economic situation has intensified. Vice Chairman Li also said that he would make good use of various platforms provided by the Ministry of Commerce to actively carry out a series of trade promotion activities.

” , fell back after the concentrated outbreak in 2020, and the risk will return to the pre-epidemic average level in 2022; the risk level of products remains high, and large losses will be reported in 2022 due to the inventory backlog of end retailers and middlemen, and the risk will rise significantly in the second half of the year; the risk level of fabrics Maintaining a high level, large losses reported in 2022 will be concentrated among European wholesalers; chemical fiber risks have been on an upward trend in the past five years, and risks will explode in 2022, mainly related to the tight foreign exchange reserves in markets such as Egypt and Bangladesh. This year will face pressures such as economic recession, financing and destocking. China Credit Insurance will actively play the counter-cyclical and cross-cyclical adjustment role of Credit Insurance and unswervingly stabilize foreign trade insurance orders.

Ma Shuang, President of the Beijing Yabao Road International Trade Chamber of Commerce, focused on sharing what he saw, heard, thought and felt during his several visits to Russia last year, and introduced high-quality exhibitions related to local textiles, clothing, footwear, and light industry. Chairman Ma said that the current Russian market structure has undergone major changes. The Russian domestic market is in a period of industry adjustment and contains many new business opportunities. It is recommended that domestic textile and apparel, sports bags, footwear and other brand companies actively go overseas to explore new business opportunities and fill the gap in the Russian domestic market. The market is vacant.

Ma Ying, secretary-general of the Clothing and Home Textiles Branch of the Textile Chamber of Commerce, said that in the past three years of the epidemic, China and the United States have led the global textile and clothing supply and demand structure to undergo tremendous changes. In 2022, China’s textile and clothing exports will increase by 21.8% cumulatively compared with before the epidemic, with a net increase of nearly 20%. 60 billion US dollars, personal consumption expenditures on clothing and apparel in the United States have also increased compared with before the epidemic.With a growth rate of 22.2% and a net increase of nearly US$100 billion, this unprecedented and unconventional momentum is difficult to sustain. In the post-epidemic era, on the one hand, the global production, sales and trade pattern will return to the pre-epidemic pattern; on the other hand, trends such as “near-shoring outsourcing” and “friendly shore outsourcing” in international supply chains will put greater pressure on the international trade environment faced by China. At the same time, it should also be noted that there is still a lot of space and opportunities in the international market. This year, the branch will conduct full-chain tracking of the foreign trade situation from the macro, meso and micro levels, and complete various research projects entrusted by superiors.

Han Xiao, deputy secretary-general of the Yarn and Fabric Branch of the Textile Chamber of Commerce, analyzed the changing trends of the yarn and fabric industry chain last year. He said that despite the repeated epidemics and declining demand last year, the export of semi-finished products of yarn and fabric still hit a record high. However, the export growth rate is significantly lower than that in 2021. In the first half of last year, the export growth of yarn fabrics was driven by price growth. However, in the second half of the year, the export volume increased and the export unit price dropped significantly, indicating that currently, enterprises in the mid- and downstream industries are still bearing the main cost pressure, and corporate profits have once again been reduced. compression. my country’s exports of yarn fabrics to traditional markets such as ASEAN and South Asia have slowed down, but the regionalization and short-chain supply chain has promoted China’s exports to neighboring producing countries in North America and Europe. It is expected that the export of yarn fabrics will open at a low level in 2023, and the export market will show a trend of differentiation.

Jiao Hui, deputy director of the Second Commodity Department of the Light Industry Chamber of Commerce, introduced my country’s footwear exports in recent years, the domestic and international layout of the footwear industry, the difficult problems faced by the footwear industry and the recent work of the Footwear Branch of the Light Industry Chamber of Commerce. . Jiao Hui said that within three years of the epidemic, except for a 20% drop in 2020, my country’s footwear exports maintained rapid growth in the following two years. Last year, my country’s footwear exports hit a record high, up 20.6% from 2021 and 30% from pre-epidemic levels. Europe and the United States are still the main export markets for China’s footwear products, but exports to ASEAN have also grown rapidly in recent years. Last year, exports to ASEAN totaled US$9.5 billion, a year-on-year increase of 52.9%. In the future, the export of footwear products will shift its focus to cultivating new advantages in market competition, establishing brands, improving quality and other efficiency gains.

At the end of the meeting, Vice Chairman Zhang Xian and Vice Chairman Li Wenfeng said that in the future, the Textile Chamber of Commerce and the Light Industry Chamber of Commerce will further strengthen the interaction of foreign trade research and judgment in the light textile industry, innovate new paths of cooperation and development, and work together to jointly promote high-quality foreign trade in the light textile industry. Develop new situations.

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