Economic Analysis of Printing and Dyeing Industry in the First Half of 2010 - 2

Import and export trade

From January to May, the import and export volume of the six categories of printing and dyeing products totaled 5.638 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 17.95% year-on-year, with the growth rate falling 14.46 percentage points from January to February and accelerating 35.61 percentage points year-on-year; the trade surplus was 3.614 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 31.61% over the same period of last year. The speed ratio fell by 34.41 percentage points from January to February, an increase of 46.99 percentage points year-on-year.

Export situation: From January to May, the export volume of the six major categories of printing and dyeing products was 4.967 billion meters, an increase of 15.32% year-on-year. The growth rate fell by 28.72 percentage points compared with January to February, which was a year-on-year increase of 27.67 percentage points; the export amount was 4.626 billion US dollars, an increase of 22.92% over the same period of last year. %, the growth rate fell 21.64 percentage points from January to February, an increase of 39.75 percentage points year-on-year; the average export unit price was 0.95 yuan/meter, an increase of 6.59% year-on-year, and the export unit price increased for two consecutive quarters.

Export product situation. In the six categories of exports, except for the export volume of cotton-blend printed fabrics, the amount of exports fell sharply year-on-year, and the export volume of other five categories of products both increased at a double-digit rate, especially the export volume of cotton-blend dyed fabrics. The year-on-year increase was more than 40%. Excluding the average unit price of export of cotton blended dyed fabrics, the unit price of export of other four types of products also increased by different ranges, among which the increase in printed fabrics was larger.

Major export markets: The top five markets for printing and dyeing exports were Benin, Brazil, Bangladesh, China’s Hong Kong SAR and Vietnam, and exports to the five markets accounted for 30.09% of total exports. In the five markets, exports to Brazil were substantially higher. Growth, export volume, amount of increase respectively reached 125.75% and 176.34%, export unit price increased by 22.41% year-on-year, a substantial increase, but the unit price of exports to Brazil was low, only 0.75 US dollars/m; exports to Benin, Bangladesh and Vietnam and The amount of money has grown at a double-digit rate; the number of exports to China's Hong Kong SAR has dropped by 15.92% year-on-year.