Since
the second half last year, China’s textile industry has suffered from
big difficulties never seen before as the result of global economic
crisis. Now the industry does gradually step out of the shadow.
Industry exports point out that textile exports will still be on the
mend this year.
Chinese
government raised the export tax rebate of textile and garment for
consecutive four times in the face of economic crisis in 2009,
adjusting it from 11% to 16%, and released a stimulus package for the
industry in an effort to boost China’s structural upgrade of the
sector. In October last year, textile industry achieved a year-on-year
increase 11.8%, the first time since Nov 2008 it came back above
positive territory. In November last year, the community realized a
year-on-year increase of 11.2% According to statistics from the
Customs released on Jan 10, China exported 167.024 billion USD worth of
textile and garment in twelve months to December 2009, dropped by 9.8%
from a year earlier” .As per news posted in MIIT( Ministry of
Industry and Information Technology )’s offical website, China’s
textile industry grew by 11.5% year-on-year in Nov 2009, down by 0.3
percentage point from previous month; export value increased 7.8% in
the month, up by 7.7 percentage points from October” ..Data from
the General Administration of Customs available recently displayed good
trend too. The exports of yarns and fibers, fabrics, garment and
accessories came up a lot in December 2009. Exports of commodities in
yarn, fiber and fabric category totalled 6.22 billion USD, up by 15.8%
from Nov’s number, the maxium of the year” .According to the
Customs, foreign trade totalled 2.2 trillion USD in 2009, down by 13.9%
from 2008 and slightly higher than 2007’s value. Trade surplus amounted
to 196.1 billion USD, down 34.2%” ..Global demand will continue to
recover as world economy warms up this year. Yet the impact of the
crisis remains, and the increase of textile exports in 2010 is more a
kind of recovery than a persisting growth as before”,Wang Qianjin
pointed out, an export in textile industry. He added, protectism and
change of RMB exchange system may cap the exports of China’s textile
and garment in the future” .
Date:1/21/2010
Source:www.ccfgroup.com