Due to the outbreak of domestic and foreign epidemics in the textile market after the new year, clothing consumption has been hit hard, fabric orders are extremely scarce, and the entire market has no bright spots. However, there have been rare signs of improvement in the textile market recently. Imitation silk, four-way elastic, nylon and other regulars in the market in the first half of the year finally began to show some strength towards the end of the first half.
The operating rate of weaving enterprises has begun to rebound, and some are even fully operational. All plans to suspend production and take holidays after May Day have also been cancelled. Some dyeing factories have also changed from the past quietness and desertedness. Various production links have begun to show signs of being busy, and workers have adjusted from three shifts to two shifts. The off-season atmosphere seems to be dissipating, and normal production is gradually entering.
But At present, most fabric orders in the textile market seem to come from the domestic trade market, while foreign trade orders have shown no improvement. Domestic trade and foreign trade are the two legs of the textile market, but now how stable and far can the textile market go if only relying on domestic trade? Still unknown.
According to a trader, the market has been better recently, and they have also received some domestic trade orders, totaling about 100,000 meters. However, they lack confidence in this wave of market. On the one hand, it is because foreign trade orders are almost invisible; on the other hand, because the traditional off-season of summer textiles is coming, the demand for fabrics may shrink again.
Where have the foreign trade orders gone? Textile people have all had this question, and of course this question is not difficult to answer: Due to the severe overseas epidemic situation, shopping and consumption activities have decreased, and the demand for clothing has decreased, resulting in a significant reduction in fabric orders. However, some foreign trade terminal customers have reported that not only are their recent foreign trade orders numerous, but they also cannot find suppliers to fulfill them.
my country’s General Administration of Customs released import and export statistics for the first four months of this year. Among them, textile exports unexpectedly increased, reaching 261.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.9%. Of course, these data include masks and other anti-epidemic supplies, and the export volume of clothing, which is closely related to us, was 205.1 billion, a decrease of 20.2%.
The number of foreign trade orders is huge, but the varieties are single.
It can be seen from the data that ordinary clothing foreign trade orders are indeed decreasing, but the number of epidemic prevention supplies fabrics Demand has risen against the trend, and the performance has been extremely impressive, even driving the growth of the entire textile export data. In other words, there is not only no shortage of textile foreign trade orders, but they are also increasing.
According to an employee of a clothing foreign trade company, they make orders for various types of finished clothing. In the past, they placed orders for various fabrics to various parts of the country and then exported them abroad for processing into clothing. But this year they have very few orders for ordinary fabrics, and they are basically making anti-epidemic fabrics. And the volume is very large. The order we just made for masks is 45 million, and the export value is US$1 each. Recently, a large number of orders for protective clothing have also been placed, and the orders at this time are all cash transactions, which is very profitable for suppliers.
There is indeed no shortage of foreign trade orders, but most of these orders are limited to epidemic prevention fabrics. It is not applicable to all textile people, especially as the requirements for anti-epidemic fabrics have increased in recent times, and various certificates and certifications are difficult for ordinary textile companies to obtain. Therefore, no matter how many foreign trade orders there are of these single varieties, it will be difficult for most textile workers to benefit.
Customers are busy with epidemic prevention fabrics and postpone regular orders
Epidemic prevention fabrics follow the pneumonia epidemic It has become a hot spot in the world, and the profit growth of related fabrics is also amazing. The huge profits have attracted many foreign trade customers to enter the market, and there are many companies that have never been involved in epidemic prevention fabrics in the past.
According to a foreign trade customer, the barrier to entry for epidemic prevention fabrics is very high. Once a suitable supplier is found, the subsequent order operation will be very simple. When they first entered the field of masks at the beginning of the year, they had many difficulties. They had no place to place orders. But now that they have opened up the production line, they can handle various orders with ease, and they can also design various styles of masks according to customer requirements. Recently, they have encountered problems with protective clothing when they first entered the field of masks, but they are also actively moving to strive to enter the state as soon as possible.
Generally speaking, once the initial threshold of anti-epidemic fabrics is crossed and a suitable supplier with qualified, complete certificates and certifications is found, the subsequent operations will be much simpler, and the return at this stage will The payments and profits are very considerable. This also limits the choices of foreign trade customers to some extent. They naturally give priority to orders for epidemic prevention fabrics, while ignoring and postponing orders for regular fabrics. When it comes to textile fabrics, it is natural that various anti-epidemic fabrics are popular and popular, while other fabrics have no chance of selling well.
Textile Domestic trade orders in the market are improving, and there are actually a lot of foreign trade orders, but this is not our common domestic and foreign trade situation. foreign tradeOnly orders for anti-epidemic fabrics increased, while orders for most other fabrics showed no improvement. Domestic trade only looks good in comparison with the “abnormality” of foreign trade, but it is not comparable with previous years. Before foreign trade orders bloom in full, the textile market can hardly be said to be improving. </p
