According to custom statistics, China imported textile equipments worth US $2.292 billion in the first half of this year, up 26.77 percent compared to the same period last year.
Since 2006, the demand for advanced technology equipments in Chinese textile industry has gone up. The Government has stopped tax-free imports of textile equipments from this July. Hence, enterprises imported some equipment in advance, helping to boost the import during the month.
The import of spinning equipments like tatting machines, automatic winders, air-jet looms moved up. The import quantity of automatic winders was 60 sets, up 130.77 percent than the same period last year.
The country imported textile equipments mainly from EU, Japan, Taiwan and Germany during the first half of this year. From Germany, the country imported mainly knitting and spinning machineries worth US $623 million, up 44.05 percent.
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