Review Of Sino US Textile And Garment Trade Relations Based On Recent International Situation

On January 1, 2009, China ushered in the quota free era in the US market, but according to the available information, the US has done a good job in dealing with Chinese textiles in the quota free era clothing Measures for export.

In the severe situation that the impact of the financial crisis has not yet subsided, China's textile and clothing exports to the United States showed signs of shrinking. Even so, China still maintained the United States in 2008 Textiles and clothing The status of the largest supplier country.

The status quo of the US domestic textile and clothing industry is in the United States. Due to the competitive disadvantage of labor force, the production and clothing processing of low-end textiles have been transferred to Asian countries and countries that have concluded free trade agreements with the United States, which has shrunk as a whole.

According to the US Department of Labor, Textile and clothing industry The number of employed people dropped from about 1.2 million in 2000 to 541000 in 2007. The adjustment of the industrial structure will inevitably lead to the increase of its import substitute products, and the trade data of the United States shows that the dependence on foreign trade of certain kinds of textiles and clothing in the United States has increased year by year.

As shown in Table 1, the I/P ratio is increasing year by year, while the DMS ratio is decreasing year by year. The strong purchasing power of the American people and the adjustment of the American industrial structure have led to the increasing dependence on foreign trade year by year, making the United States the largest consumer market and the largest importer of textiles and clothing in the world. Its total textile and clothing imports account for about 20% of the global textile and clothing trade.

The United States is the world's largest Textile clothing Product importing country. According to US customs statistics, in 2005, US textile and clothing imports reached US $89207 million, up 7.08% year on year; Among them, clothing imports amounted to US $68.715 billion, up 6.09% year on year.

Since 1994, China has become the world's largest producer and exporter of textile and clothing products. According to China's customs statistics, in 2005, the total export volume of China's textile and clothing products reached 117.5 billion dollars, and the United States is the main export market of China's textile and clothing products. As the world's largest importer of textile and clothing products and the world's largest producer and exporter of textile and clothing products, the textile and clothing trade friction between China and the United States is of concern.

Current export situation of China's textile and clothing products to the United States In 2005, China's textile and clothing products exports to the United States and the European Union surged in the months after the global textile quota system was abolished. In that year, China's textile and clothing exports to the United States reached 19.576 billion US dollars, up 66.09% year on year. Among them, clothing was US $13.566 billion, up 76.00% year on year; Textiles increased by 47.38% year on year. The amount of textile and clothing products exported from China to the United States accounts for about 17% of the total export of similar products in China.

In September 2005, four organizations, including the National Textile Organization Association of the United States and the United States Manufacturing Trade Action Alliance, jointly submitted a statement to the United States Textile Agreement Implementation Committee (CITA) that protective measures should continue to be taken against the import of nine categories of textile and clothing products in China. According to the statement, from January to July 2005, China's textile and clothing exports to the United States surged. Among the seven categories of clothing goods that the complaint proposed to continue to implement protective measures, the total number of imports reached 850 million, with an average increase of 627%. Among them, the fastest growing imports were cotton shirts and cotton trousers, with an increase of 1287% and 14227%, respectively, 227 million and 205 million pieces; Bra products accounted for the largest share of the US import market, reaching 43%.

In addition, among the textiles exported from China to the United States, 620 categories of other man-made long fiber fabrics grew the fastest, reaching 44.2803 million square meters. The growth rate reached 1145%, accounting for about 16% of the United States import market. In addition, other types of clothing, such as knitted shirts, underwear, artificial fiber shirts and pants, increased by more than 300%.

The Textile and Clothing Office of the US Department of Commerce classified the imported textile and clothing products into the following four categories in its import statistics of the Textile and Clothing Trade Balance Report published in December 2005 and April 2006: yarn, fabric, finished goods and clothing. According to the report, China's exports to the United States in four categories are: 14.205 billion US dollars in 2003; US $17.801 billion in 2004; US $25.739 billion in 2005. Among them, the amount of clothing products was US $9.192 billion, US $11.304 billion and US $17.497 billion respectively.

However, its latest statistics show that China's total exports of clothing and textiles to the United States have begun to decline. Both China's customs export statistics and the statistics of the Textile and Clothing Office of the U.S. Department of Commerce show that in 2005, China's exports of textile and clothing products to the United States increased significantly. The import and local production status of textile and clothing products in the United States According to the statistics of the Textile and Clothing Office of the United States Department of Commerce, the proportion of the above four types of cotton products in the local production of the United States in 2004 dropped significantly, only 21.5% and 19.5%, while the import volume of these clothing increased significantly, more than five times of the local production, especially women's cotton shirts and blouses, Its import volume is 10.57 times that of local production, while the proportion of local production in the United States is only 14.9% and 16.4%. However, in 2000, the proportion basically remained around 30%.

The statistics released by the office show that the proportion of domestic production of most textile and clothing products in the United States is declining year by year, especially the local production of all kinds of clothing. This is also the general trend of the development of the textile and clothing industry in the United States. However, man-made fiber products produced locally in the United States still have a great advantage. Among the 90 categories of related products in the above statistics, there are 29 categories of products with a local production proportion of more than 50% in the United States, of which the products with a proportion of more than 80% are mainly man-made fiber textiles. There are 14 categories of products as follows: 225 categories, with a proportion of 85.2%; 226 categories, 90.3%; 227 categories, 91.2%; Class 300, 95.1%; Type 436 wool dresses, 82.2%; Class 600, 92.2%; Class 604, 95.4%; 613 categories, 96.2%; 617 categories, 85.8%; 622, 80.2%; 626 categories, 89.8%; 627 categories, 88.8%; Category 629, 80.1%.