Recently, the number of new cases in the country has been as low as double digits, and the domestic epidemic is finally under control! Just when everyone was happy about the good news, bad news also followed. According to the latest statistics, the number of confirmed cases outside China exceeds 85,000, especially in Europe, which includes major textile exporting countries.
Foreign trade orders have encountered obstacles, and this year’s foreign trade is in a mess!
Recently, the editor heard that a textile company in Shengze area sold Italy’s 200,000-meter island satin has been cancelled! A textile foreign trade boss said that due to the impact of the epidemic, a Spanish customer sent an email this morning to cancel the original planned order. The textile export trade has sounded an “alarm”.
1. The epidemic in Europe is serious and the impact on foreign trade is great
Italy is an important exporter of Chinese textiles , China’s textile exports are in a very important position. Now the total number of confirmed cases in Italy has exceeded 10,000, which has caused a great blow to the textile exports. Mr. Zhang, who mainly exports Italian textiles and foreign trade business, said: “Years ago In January, the order volume from foreigners was still relatively optimistic. When the epidemic in China became serious in February, they did not reduce the order volume, and the orders were still concentrated. It was not until the epidemic spread to Europe in March that their customers realized the seriousness of the problem. , began to gradually cancel orders, but fortunately, we have no order cancellations from Italy.” Now Italy has also begun to suspend business and close towns, and local personnel said that this situation may continue until June.
2. Although there is no serious epidemic in Southeast Asia, it has also been affected
It may be due to climate factors. There is no serious epidemic in Southeast Asia. Even so, although the impact on foreign trade is not as great as in Europe and other places, it is not ideal. Manager Li of a textile foreign trade company in Zhejiang said: “This epidemic mainly affects the European market. Our company is mainly engaged in foreign trade business in the Southeast Asian market, but it does not have no impact on us, but the impact is relatively small.” Another major Mr. Liu, who is engaged in foreign trade business in Malaysia, said: “Customers from Malaysia originally wanted to come here to discuss business. Although the domestic epidemic situation has improved, it is not very good abroad and there are still certain risks, so this is a blow compared to business. Although there are no order cancellations, business has not been very good in the past two years, and it seems to be even worse this year.” It can be seen that the spread of the epidemic has also had a certain impact on the Southeast Asian market.
Textile foreign trade encounters difficulties, traders are troubled
Last year due to the Sino-US trade war The problem is that traders have already suffered a “loss”. Just when they were thinking about whether trade would improve this year, the epidemic gave traders another “blow”.
March and April are not only the peak seasons for domestic textile bosses, but also the peak seasons for exporting foreign textile trade bosses In the peak season, the CEO of a textile foreign trade company said: “Currently, orders were placed in January and February when the foreign epidemic was not serious. They were about 1.2 million meters. There were no orders for the time being in March. This month there are only About 600,000 meters will be shipped. At this time in previous years, there were at least two to three million meters of orders. Now customers who were originally negotiating orders in March are still hesitant…” Obviously, the impact of this epidemic on trading companies is greater than that of Sino-U.S. trade. The impact will be larger, and the epidemic will last longer than Sino-US trade.
It can be seen that this year’s textile foreign trade market is also very difficult to navigate. Foreign epidemic prevention work is not as complete as domestic one, so the foreign epidemic will be a protracted war. , it is still unknown when the foreign trade market will improve.
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