Recently, the EU, the US and Australia and other regions and countries issued a series of textile and clothing regulations and standards, higher demands on the relevant products. It is learned that, Quanzhou is China's major textile and garment production and export base, more than 5 billion US dollars in exports, these countries accounted for the proportion of Quanzhou textile and garment exports more than half of frequent barriers inevitably have some impact on the local textile and garment export. To remind the industry, companies need to keep abreast of regulations related content, actively carry out countermeasures.

Exports will encounter "three threshold" export profit margins compression

Recently, the US Federal Trade Commission (ftc) to make a final revision of its textile labeling rules, including the fiber content and country of origin identification and other rules. New Rules Textile Fiber Products Identification Act requires labels on some textiles sold in the US, the generic name should be prominently marked textiles, the percentage content of the manufacturer or distributor's name and producing or processing countries. In the United States continuously raising barriers to imports of textiles, while the International Oeko-Tex Association oeko-tex also recently announced a version of the 2014 oeko-texstandard100 eco-friendly textile testing standards and limit values, the new standard for PFOA pfoa regulation will become more stringent.

In addition, Australia "Good Environmental Choice label" (gec) recently released a new standard for environmental certification textile and leather. The standard requires that textile and apparel products and accessories at least 90% of the weight of textile fibers; interior textiles, cleaning cloth requires 90% of the weight of textile fibers, yarns and fabrics or non-woven fabrics; leather requires at least 90% of the weight genuine leather material.

"Generally speaking, the implementation of these regulations for the export of textile and clothing products to set up the 'three threshold'." Analysis of the industry, the "three barriers", including safety barriers, green barriers and labeling threshold.

Quanzhou Textile and Apparel Association Secretary-General Shi Zhi think positive, foreign markets increasingly stringent regulatory barriers, not only have a certain impact on the local textile and garment exports, increase the body burden, and is China's textile and garment in unfair and unequal competition in world trade performance, but objectively, Chinese textile and apparel products are more low-end or in the middle grades, compared with the developed Western countries, there is a considerable gap indeed.

Barriers frequent bound exports of local products related to the country's higher demands, export enterprises to adapt to new standards and regulations, must be a corresponding increase in registration and testing costs, which also increases the risk of exporting enterprises, reduce the price of their products competitiveness.

"Although this year has been warmer overall export market, but export earnings have not increased, but declined." Part of the textile and garment export enterprises, told reporters in the past foundry profit up 15 percent processing fee, but now has been reduced to less than 10%.

"Compared to a few years ago, US and European markets in recent years, frequent trade barriers, especially for fabrics have become increasingly demanding." Fred Tupper (Quanzhou) Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. is a positioning and European markets, mainly in the production of outdoor clothing based enterprises, the company's business manager Shaw liter 欣坦 words, compared to other categories of clothing enterprises, outdoor clothing for fabric ask for more.

"Years ago, we paid great attention to environmental protection fabric products in recent years, but there is a lot of European countries and regions of the enterprises, the product made of fabric demanding. Recently, a Norwegian guest to specify a product Fabric higher than the level of environmental protection than ordinary fabric, this fabric one meter three dollars more expensive. "made nearly a decade of foreign trade, Xiao Yan sigh liter, than before now much less trade margins foreign businessmen product requirements also tend to harsh, which allow enterprises to feel a lot of pressure.

Cai Fujian dragon dragon Clothing Co. chairman admits foreign markets increasingly stringent regulatory requirements, to a certain extent, increased product testing costs, "as long as the detection of previously finished, now prenatal, delivery, postpartum, be related materials, product testing, European and American customers, especially rigorous, sometimes giving the third-party testing organizations test our products to the company. "

In this regard, the company especially with Long Fiber Inspection Bureau of Fujian Province to cooperate, which guarantees a large extent the quality of our products, but also increased its product testing costs. "Originally, raw materials and labor costs rising in now to deal with trade barriers, even the corresponding registration and testing costs have increased, in order to ensure profits, we had to raise the price of the product." Cai said the dragon.

Faced with increasingly stringent regulations in foreign markets barriers are planted Shi reminded export enterprises, to accelerate the transformation and upgrading, in the development and design of products, not only to consider the product's form and function, but also according to inspection standards of the exporting country, the active use of green technology, enhance the competitiveness of enterprises, but to establish the quality of corporate consciousness, self-controlled efforts to increase exports and reduce export resistance.

"In recent years, with the growing concern about the project to improve the safety of consumer products, consumer goods, especially the United States for safety standards and supervision of imported consumer goods is rising, and frequently informed of the recall of Chinese-made textile and footwear categories of consumer goods." In this regard, Insiders suggested that on the one hand, enterprises should promptly and fully master the importing country technology, quality, safety, environmental protection, packaging and labeling standards and regulations with regard to textiles and clothing, combined with their production, and constantly improve the quality management system, not blind pursuit of beautiful, low-cost and ignore the quality of products. On the other hand, should pay close attention to the US recall notification cpsc dynamic, enhance risk awareness and standards philosophy, in strict accordance with the mandatory requirements of the importing country to organize product design and development, materials procurement and supplier evaluation, safety and environmental protection projects testing.

Weaving Co., Ltd. Jinjiang City, assistant to the chairman of Fox colorful clothing Zhongrui Chun told reporters that the company's products are mainly exported to European and American markets, European consumers have strong spending power, fashion dressy but not demanding that they pay more attention to fabric, texture, pure natural fabric, a soft spot for green products. Therefore, the company's choice of upstream materials are more stringent, in order to ensure product quality. "In the selection of fabrics, we choose European buyers prefer cotton products, after special treatment, comfortable and easy to deform."

"Coping with export barriers, we must first improve product quality, to conform to export standards, but more importantly, we will strive to make the product style and design with international standards." Choi told reporters dragon, the ever-changing face of the export market and a lot of competition opponents blindly rely on lower prices to win is by no means a permanent solution to the market on the basis of rigorous investigation, daring creativity allow new products to attract customers attention. "Today's buyers are focused on environmentally friendly products, we naturally want to make efforts in this regard, with the typical green products to attract them."

In the application of positive plant seems to face new standards for new regulations, local textile and garment enterprises strain pressure into motivation, and work together to upgrade the level of the whole industry chain, as textile and garment is a chain, a number of new standards for testing for the end product of clothing, to adapt to the new standards must be from the source, from spinning, weaving aspects should pay attention to, especially in dyeing and finishing sectors is an important part.