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Oddity: Cotton Prices Fell &Nbsp All The Way, But Prices Rose In Autumn.

2011/7/29 17:05:00 57

Phenomenon: cotton prices all the way down, autumn prices still rise.

Last May,

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The price of cotton is only about 17000 yuan per ton, and then soared to a higher level, crossing the barrier of 20 thousand yuan and 30 thousand yuan per ton, reaching the highest point in November, reaching 33 thousand and 500 yuan per ton.

Cotton prices hit a new high in February this year, reaching 34 thousand and 900 yuan per ton.

But soon after the "sudden change", it dropped to nearly 30 thousand yuan per ton.

Then down the road, by mid July, only 24 thousand yuan per ton, down nearly 30% from the highest point.

However, the price of newly installed autumn clothes did not "synchronize" with the rise and fall of cotton prices.

In Xinjiekou Dayang department store, many brands have placed their autumn clothes in the eye-catching position of the store.

The author finds that Eland, TeenieWeenie and so on.

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Compared with last year, the price of a single product with the same fabric and style is all higher than that of last year.

For example, a small bear pattern sweater of TeenieWeenie is priced at 898 yuan this year, while last year the same style was only 700 yuan, up nearly 13%.

"Autumn clothing is expected to be on the shelves in early August. The price increase is a trend, and each piece will probably rise by tens of dollars."

Central shopping malls Semir counters sales staff told the author.

BasicHouse, Eland, seven wolves and many other salesmen also affirmed that the price of autumn clothing will not drop, it will only rise.

Reason: price pmission, autumn clothing should use "spring cotton".

Why does the price of autumn wear not drop with cotton?

"Turning cotton into clothing has a price pmission process."

Rong Feng, Nanjing

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Mr. Xu, director of the Sales Department of the design and production center, said that after the cotton was collected, it was first spun into cotton yarns by the spinning mill, and then woven into cloth by the cloth mill. The printing and dyeing plant was printed and dyed, and finally sold to the garment enterprise for processing. It usually takes three or four months.

That is to say, the clothes made now are used as early as this spring cotton.

Some large garment enterprises have implemented cross season production, and the cotton used is even more "old".

"As early as in the spring, we did a good job in autumn clothes. We used the cotton that we bought last year, and the price is sure to be low."

Nanjing San DIO Garment Co., Ltd., responsible person said.

Even if the price is raised, clothing enterprises will still complain.

Because in this industry chain, the upstream enterprises will "shift" the higher cost to the next generation, and the price increase can not digest the rising cost of raw materials.

The "Nanjing Jiahe dress" on Yu Dao Street is a small garment processing enterprise that has been working for more than 10 years.

Boss Mr. Shi told the author that although the price of cotton has dropped, the price of cotton cloth that they got is 30% to 40% higher than that of the beginning of the year due to the lagging nature of price pmission.

However, there is no way to float the price to the customers. "Some old customers are more willing to accept the 10% to 15% increase, some customers are very conflicted, they think that the price of cotton has dropped, and why do they have to raise the price?

The two sides can not agree, so we have to give up this part of the order. "

He said that even orders that agreed to raise prices could not completely digest the cost of cotton cloth rising, and enterprises had to pay their own bills.

Observation: clothing enterprises are unhappy

In addition to the cost pressure of raw materials, the rising labor prices also encroach on clothing enterprises.

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"San DIO" relevant person in charge said that raw materials and labor force is the biggest two cost of clothing enterprises.

"In recent years, the cost of labor is also rising, and now some operators of some garment factories in Nanjing have reached an average salary of 3000 yuan per month."

He said that if wages were not increased and labor would be drains, enterprises would suffer from "labor shortage".