Taiwan'S Textile Industry Is Facing A Runaway Crisis.

"Now the textile industry in Taiwan is facing the dilemma of" internal and external troubles ".

An unnamed textile operator on the island told reporters that Taiwan's textile industry has been working hard for 20 years. Although the industry has been developing into a sunrise industry from the sunset, the challenges and difficulties are increasing. "Especially the promotion of the TPP agreement, Taiwan is not among them, and the TPP's exemption rules, textile and spinning need to be produced in the members of TPP economies. Therefore, Taiwan factories will miss many opportunities relative to South Korea and Japan."

The textile industry says that Taiwan's textile industry is mostly middle and upper reaches of production.

And cloth as the main reason, because at present, Vietnam has exported a lot of textile garments to the United States, the European Union, Japan and other places in the TPP economy. While Taiwan's textile exports to Vietnam are mostly concentrated in fibers, yarns and cloth, Taiwan has gradually become a global textile supply chain and market in the absence of TPP. Many FTA (free trade agreement) and up to 7 regional agreements are discussed and signed.

It is quite beneficial, which is bound to hurt Taiwan's vertical supply relationship with Vietnam's textile industry. In the long run, Taiwan's export status will also be replaced by other TPP economies.

"Influenced by internal and external factors, the mainland

The scale growth has slowed down significantly.

China's Knitting Industry Association said that with the adjustment and pition period of the mainland economy, the mainland's textile industry is facing the dual competitive pressures of the developed and developing economies, making the development decline and the industrial comparative advantage gradually disappear. Especially the small and medium-sized textile enterprises are facing unprecedented pressure of development. "In order to fight for orders, some small and medium-sized enterprises pfer the manufacturing base from the southeast coast of the mainland to Southeast Asia.

Now this overseas shift has become a major trend, and the shifting enterprises are spreading to the textile industry chain such as upstream yarn, dyeing and finishing.

According to the reporter, a few days ago, the relevant departments of the island first announced the impact and profit assessment of TPP on some industries in Taiwan.

Among them, the textile industry is considered to be the most impacted industry after the entry into force of TPP.

In particular, 5 years later, TPP will launch a second wave tax cut and Taiwan textile industry will suffer a serious blow.

"Not just TPP, RCEP (regional comprehensive economic partnership) is also important for Taiwan."

Xie Guohui, manager of Taiwan textile industry extension exhibition market development department, said that, like TPP, RCEP is also a free trade area. For Taiwan, joining RCEP or joining RCEP and TPP at the same time is very important. If it can not be joined, Taiwan will not be able to compete fairly with the economies that can actually participate in these two agreements. "In the face of external competition, and the size of the island's manufacturers is too small, the market is narrow and the industry development is limited, so the operators have to choose to leave and move to Southeast Asia in order to reduce production costs and decentralization of operational risks."