The textile market in the first half of this year is a bit strange. The “gold, three, and silver” markets that used to be hot in the past ended bleakly this year. May and June were supposed to be the off-season. On the contrary, there are all kinds of hot and bright spots. The market has experienced a situation where the peak season is not prosperous and the off-season is not weak. Of course, it is understandable that the peak season is not as good as in previous years. After all, the world is still in the midst of a raging epidemic. However, the market is improving during the off-season, which is a bit surprising. However, some recently released clothing sales data can reasonably explain why the textile market is now strong.
In the U.S. market, sales of clothing and apparel stores in April this year were US$23.5 billion, a 727% increase from the same period in 2020 when the epidemic was the worst, and an increase from the same period in 2019 5.6%. Judging from the cumulative situation in the past four months, the retail sales of clothing and apparel are in good momentum, with cumulative sales of US$89.8 billion, an increase of half compared with the same period in 2020. Compared with 2019, it is basically the same, a slight increase of 1.3%, and has basically returned to the pre-epidemic level. In Japan, textiles and apparel also achieved a large increase, with an increase of 64% compared with 2020. The EU’s textile, clothing and footwear retail sales increased by 50% year-on-year in March.
The United States, Europe and Japan are all important to our country As a textile exporting country, under the epidemic in 2020, the United States imported 352 billion yuan of various textiles from my country, Europe and the United States reached 360 billion yuan, Japan imported 144.2 billion yuan, and the total trade volume reached 856.2 billion yuan. Nowadays, clothing sales in these countries and regions have increased significantly compared with last year, which also means that the demand for textiles has increased significantly. Although most of the clothing orders from January to April are fabric orders before the Spring Festival, such hot sales make textile people full of confidence in the second half of the year. At present, many textile people have begun to take notice and actively plan for the market in the second half of the year.
Spring and summer fabrics are being sampled, and autumn and winter fabrics are being produced in large quantities
The reason why it is said that the current time should be the off-season is because orders for spring, summer, autumn and winter fabrics are relatively small now, but the recent market is obviously not following the routine.
According to a textile foreign trader, their current customers are mainly the United States and the United Kingdom, and the current orders on hand are all autumn and winter orders. But spring and summer orders are not idle either, and are all in the early stages of development and proofing. Another foreign trade company also had the same feeling. Most of their orders have been shipped before and after May Day, and there are basically no decent orders on hand. However, recently some autumn and winter orders have begun to be placed. What is particularly gratifying is that one of the early proofing orders was the first. A batch of 100,000 meters has been delivered. As the scale of vaccine use continues to expand, foreign trade demand is expected to further increase in the second half of the year, and the possibility of repeating these orders is also very high.
With these trades that have clearly received autumn and winter orders Different suppliers, there are many textile companies in the market that have not received orders yet, but based on their optimistic judgment about the market in the second half of the year, they have begun to hoard and reserve autumn and winter fabrics, especially pongee, nylon and gallbladder fabrics for autumn and winter. Products that are relatively common in the market. Once the market booms in the second half of the year, these products will inevitably sell well, and international oil prices will have a clear upward trend in the future. It is only a matter of time before the promotion of upstream raw materials ends and the prices rise sharply. Stocking up on low-priced fabrics now will have a greater competitive advantage in the future and can also increase profits.
Certificate certification, enterprise factory inspection, no idle orders
Of course, many textile companies do not make too many arrangements for fabric orders. Instead, they are improving the company’s qualifications in all aspects and enhancing the company’s competitiveness, thereby gaining recognition from more brand customers.
According to the person in charge of a weaving factory, their factory only has more than 200 looms, but the inventory is already as high as about 4 million meters. In the future, it will be increasingly difficult for their conventional products to sell well, and it will be difficult to go back to the old road. They have been considering transformation and upgrading. Even though they were replacing loom equipment during the epidemic last year, the effect was not obvious. However, the growing popularity of environmentally friendly fabrics on the market from the second half of last year to this year gave him a glimmer of hope. For this reason, he recently applied for a GRS certificate, which he estimates will be available around August, just in time to catch up with the market in the second half of the year.
The person in charge of another textile company has also been idle recently. According to him, they have no orders recently, and it is estimated that the order will be 8 at the fastest. It won’t arrive until about a month. But he has been very busy recently, mainly because he has been working on two certifications recently, one is SGS certification and the other is Wal-Mart’s factory inspection. In a sense, he is also preparing for the market situation in the second half of the year.
With the large-scale use of vaccines around the world , it is only a matter of time before the epidemic is brought under control. Especially in the hotter months, the epidemicThe situation will improve significantly, and the textile market will also usher in a peak during this period. Especially judging from the overseas textile and clothing sales in the first half of the year, as clothing inventory decreases, market demand will be released in the second half of the year, and it is urgent to lay out the textile market in the second half of the year.
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