April 2017 Cotton Textile Enterprise Survey Report: Sales Of Textile Market Is Weak.

The 121st session of the Canton Fair ended successfully. Although most of the export pactions showed a steady trend, most of the enterprises thought that it would take time for the export to really pick up. Under the "one belt and one road" initiative, China's textile and garment enterprises will also usher in a larger market and opportunities.

Respondents: Xinjiang, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Shanxi, Shanxi, Shanxi and other provinces and autonomous regions of cotton textile enterprises.

In April, the sales volume of textile market was weak, the start-up rate of enterprises was reduced, the ratio of cotton distribution was basically flat, the speed of raw material purchase slowed down, and the price of cotton yarn remained weak.

Xinjiang cotton has been fiercely competitive in putting resources into the reserve cotton, while the spot price of cotton has remained stable, but the textile enterprises have mainly focused on the original stock and raw material inventories have declined.

According to the cotton warning information system of China, the survey results of 90 fixed-point textile enterprises in the whole country showed that the yarn output decreased by 1.58% in the same period last year, of which 3.3 percentage points of pure cotton yarn percentage were reduced, the proportion of blended yarn increased by 4.15 percentage points, the output of cloth increased by 0.91% compared with that of the previous year, and the proportion of pure cotton cloth decreased by 0.8 percentage points compared with that of April.

In April, the production and sales volume of yarn and cloth in textile enterprises had different levels of underground slippage. Some of the regular varieties with better pre-sale sales were unsalable, and prices were stable and weak. At the end of the month, the stock of cotton yarn increased slightly, and the inventory of grey fabrics decreased.

According to the data of textile enterprises surveyed by the whole country, the yarn production decreased by 5.72% during the month, of which the percentage of pure cotton yarn was 71.14%, an increase of 1.64 percentage points from the previous month, the proportion of blended yarn was 21.56%, a decrease of 0.66 percentage points from the previous month, and the production of cloth decreased by 1.29% compared with that of the previous month, of which the percentage of pure cotton cloth was reduced by 3.5 percentage points.

In that month, yarn sales rate was 94.99%, a decrease of 3 percentage points from last month, a decrease of 5 percentage points compared with the same period last year.

At the end of the month, yarn inventory was about 17 and a half days, increasing by half a day from last month. Grey stock was about 25 days, which was reduced by about 2 days from last month.

Two, enterprise orders reduce cotton yarn prices fall

In April, the order of textile industry decreased, and the price of cotton yarn was weaker.

The price of cotton market is rising steadily. With the weakening of downstream market demand, the price of cotton yarn has declined, and the profits of enterprises have decreased.

With the support of low inventory and high cost, the price of imported cotton yarn continues to rise, and the price difference between domestic cotton yarn and domestic cotton yarn is widened.

At the end of the month, the standard lint price was about 15949 yuan / ton, an increase of 87 yuan / ton compared with the end of March, an increase of about 0.55%, and the price of domestic yarn decreased by 165 yuan to 23245 yuan / ton, with a reduction of 0.7%. The price of imported cotton yarn was about 23645 yuan / ton, an increase of 108 yuan / ton, an increase of 0.46%.

In April, the proportion of Xinjiang cotton dropped from the reserve cotton resources, and the price of high quality cotton had not yet been callback.

According to the cotton inventory and cotton consumption of the surveyed enterprises, as of April 30th, the number of cotton industrial stocks in the national textile enterprises is about 63.87 tons, and is expected to be 31 days and a half.

Among them, 48% of cotton stocks were reduced, 35% of which increased cotton stocks and 17% of wait-and-see attitude.

In that month, the proportion of Xinjiang cotton and imported cotton did not change significantly.

Survey data show that Xinjiang cotton use accounted for 81.86%, a slight increase of 0.14 percentage points from the previous month, of which, the proportion of newly increased cotton making enterprises accounted for about 26%, the proportion of enterprises using less than 27%, the proportion of basically flat enterprises was 48%, the proportion of imported cotton was 12.65%, a slight reduction of 0.12 percentage points from the previous month, of which 13% of the enterprises using imported cotton and 13% of the enterprises with increased usage accounted for 9%.

In April 2017, China exported about 21 billion 611 million US dollars in textile and apparel, an increase of 3.61% over the same period last year, an increase of 7.96% over the month. In 1-4 months, China's total exports of textiles and clothing were US $76 billion 510 million, down 1.28% compared to the same period last year. In 2016/17, as of April 2017, China's total exports of textiles and clothing were 165 billion 790 million US dollars, down 6.33% from the same period last year.

On the whole, the export volume of textile and clothing in China continued well last month, and the data continued to pick up.

This year, China's foreign trade development environment is slightly better than the past two years, the recent foreign trade import and export is expected to continue to stabilize better, but unstable uncertainties are still more.

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