Foreign Trade Clothing Enterprises Can Not Get A Breather.

According to the data released by China National Business Information Center this month, the number of retail sales of 100 major large-scale retail enterprises in 2014 increased by only 0.4% over the same period last year, slowing down for third consecutive years since 2012.

Among them, clothing retail sales increased by 1% over the same period last year, down 4 percentage points from the same period last year.

Retail sales fell 0.3% year-on-year, 3.7 percentage points lower than the same period last year.

Insiders said that the overall situation of the domestic textile and garment enterprises, the proportion of exports and domestic sales accounted for roughly 50:50, and the RMB appreciation has continued to appreciate for a long time. Indeed, many export enterprises are under heavy pressure.

The depreciation of the RMB against the US dollar is conducive to reducing the cost of textile enterprises, enhancing the competitiveness of products, getting more orders, and on the other hand, is conducive to the exchange earnings.

However, a brokerage analyst told reporters that the yuan is against the US dollar.

It is doubtful whether it will become a trend. In addition, in the current situation, the depreciation rate is not large, so the positive effect on textile enterprises is very limited.

"Labor, raw materials, capital costs and so on are rising, compared to the extent of depreciation is not great."

Analysts at the industry also said that what is more important now is domestic.

The comprehensive cost is far higher than that of India, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian and South Asian countries.

Take Vietnam as an example, the footwear industry is now its third largest export industry.

In terms of footwear products, Vietnam Customs Department statistics show that in 2013, Vietnam exported shoes about 10 billion 320 million US dollars, an increase of 18% over the same period last year.

In the first half of 2014, Vietnam exported about 4 billion 600 million US dollars of shoes, an increase of more than 20%.

Because of the low labor cost, Southeast Asian export products are highly competitive, attracting many foreign enterprises' orders.

In the first half of 2014, Nike, Adidas, Puma and other enterprises have pferred large quantities of their orders in China to Vietnamese factories.

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In the garment processing industry, Chinese suppliers have lost their advantages. After 90 workers are more willing to go to a more relaxed electronic industry, and the industry has a "wrong ten penalty" unwritten rule: a factory may receive a profit of only 5% of the list, but once there is a late order or quality problem, there will be 30% to 50% deductions.

On the website of SACOM, in addition to UNIQLO, A&F, H&M, Levis, Gap, Nike, Martha and other international brands are also in the list.

On the day of the report of SACOM, XXX confirmed the content of the report, and announced the specific rectification proposals for the two suppliers in a follow-up statement 4 days later.

"Although there were some problems in the monitoring of the labour environment of the cooperative factories, some problems had not been improved.

XX Group will continue to strive to ensure that the problem is improved. "

Fast marketing group told reporters.

In the face of growing costs, XXX group and its suppliers have also held meetings to discuss how to cultivate technology, improve processes and enhance staff skills.

"Japanese companies still have the tradition of using suppliers as partners to help suppliers improve their internal processes."

Sun Tao said.

UNIQLO and Chinese foundries will normally sign long-term cooperative contracts and form some strategic partnership.

However, it is worth noting that the fast fashion brand, which appeals for low price and fashion, is also gradually weakening its reliance on Chinese suppliers for further reducing costs and risks.

Shortly after the SACOM's report was released, it was reported that Xun marketing group started producing "UNIQLO" casual wear in India factory in January this year, and the first batch of garments will be listed in Japan in March.

The advantage of China's garment processing industry is that the industrial chain is more concentrated.

Besides garment processing, the supply of raw materials for fabrics and accessories is also perfect.

Many of the garment accessories in Southeast Asia still need to be imported from China, which slows down production speed and is not conducive to fast clothing.

"If the whole industrial chain of Southeast Asia's clothing industry has been built up rapidly in the past two years, China's garment manufacturers will soon lose their advantages even if they move to areas with lower labor costs," Sun Tao said. "The apparel foundry industry is a low technology, low threshold industry, and it will turn to a country with low labor costs."

In the stores of Zara, H&M, the place of origin has changed from China to Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries.

According to Japanese media reports, the proportion of uniformed products made in China in 2013 has dropped from 90% in 2008 to 70%. In the future, it plans to produce 1/3 products in countries other than China. Although UNIQLO said it would not reduce the number of suppliers in China, with the gradual increase of its labor costs, some of the management risks arising therefrom may accelerate the process.