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High-end textile machinery imports up 21.6% by Aug

25 Sep '06
3 min read

According to the briefing, as the traditional textiles and apparel products has become increasingly high-tech features of computerized textile machinery, mechanical and electrical integration technology is increasingly demanding.

Subject to export quotas, and the RMB exchange rate and increased lower grade products such as a combination of factors, the first eight months of 2000, total exports of clothing and Shanghai Port businesses 22.25 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 11.1 percent, an increase of 16.2 percentage points less than the same period last year shows that the textile and garment enterprises exporting more difficult.

Not commensurate with the country's textile and apparel exports, domestic textile machinery situation is not optimistic.

Compared to imported products, textile machinery industry made a serious issue of convergence products, the high cost of long-term, the majority of middle and low and could only be applied to small garment factory, in particular looms, knitting machines and finishing equipment and other products, technological level has been relatively weak.

A non-woven machines, the speed air-jet loom is only about half that of similar products abroad, 90 percent more than high-end products have to be imported.

Customs General Administration of the People's Republic of China

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