Cotton clothing prices rose 20% into the industry: fall and winter wear has been set

The soaring price of cotton keeps the price of jeans rising. (Profile picture)

“The business is getting harder and harder. At the beginning of August, the purchase price has risen by more than 20%!” Yesterday afternoon, the owner of a children’s clothing store in Yuqiao Market frowned. The reporter learned that this round of rising textile prices is closely related to the high price of cotton since the first half of this year. Moreover, after the National Day, our province ushered in a new acquisition of new cotton, the purchase price rose by 50% -60% year-on-year.

Two-month price increase for cotton clothing exceeded 20%. "From the beginning of August, the price of goods has gone up three times. The price of the same section of cotton sweaters was 13.5 yuan last year and it was raised to 15.5 yuan this year." The reporter visited Nanjing Yuqiao yesterday. In the market, Sun Hui, who is engaged in the children's clothing business, pointed to a child's clothing named Xiao Frank. He told reporters that this small cotton suit has recently risen by more than 20%.

In a small store named “Thousand Flowers,” Luo pointed to a khaki long windbreaker and told reporters that similarly thick cotton clothing has almost risen by about 20 yuan this year, before the sixty to seventy yuan. Can sell, now want to sell 90 yuan to return to this, a little long-sleeved shirt must also add 10 yuan to get the goods. Another boss, Zhou Lili, said that the average price of each piece of clothing has gone up by 3 to 4 yuan. The previous 25 yuan will get the goods. At least 28 yuan and 29 yuan, so many of the 45 yuan sold last year are now selling 50 yuan. Yuan.

The price of one-meter cotton fabric has gone up by 45 yuan. The buyer of a well-known bedding company in Nantong has recently been running for raw materials in the second half of the year. “In the past five months, raw materials were basically sold for a few days, and they kept rolling up.” Many raw materials of Nantong textile companies were taken from a home textile city in Haimen. “Now the price of cotton yarn has reached a Ton more than 12,000 yuan.For example, we use a cotton cloth raw material, the original 25 yuan a meter, now rose to more than 29 yuan." Ho ** analysis, this autumn, new cotton purchase prices rose again, coupled with the second half of the textile consumption season, This is bound to bring prices such as winter clothing quilts to rise again.

【 behind price increase 】

The purchase price of new cotton in our province soared by 56 percent and the price of textiles rose. The industry pointed to the raw material cotton. "Last year, 200 yuan a year of cotton rose suddenly to 600 yuan a year this year, you say that it is too good?" Said a textile business owner.

The reporter also learned from the Price Monitoring Center of the Provincial Price Bureau yesterday that after the National Day, the province ushered in the climax of new cotton centralized acquisitions. Compared with last year, the purchase price of new cotton rose by 50%-60%. Due to the difference between cotton acquisition and crops, after the two-month centralized acquisition period, the cotton farmers have been sold sporadically for many years. During the previous six months, cotton prices have been rising all the way.

According to data approved by Nanjing Customs yesterday, the province imported cotton with US$770 million in the first three quarters of this year, an increase of 2.3 times, and the average import price was US$1845/ton, up 41.1%.

[Expert analysis]

The province's cotton production has not been reduced and does not rule out the possibility of hot money speculation The reporter learned from the Provincial Agriculture Commission that in 2008, due to the impact of the financial crisis on textile companies to reduce raw material purchases, the price of cotton was lower, and cotton planting enthusiasm was greatly dampened. However, due to the increase in cotton yields this year and the large area of ​​floods that occurred in this year's cotton-producing areas in our province, the weather conditions are not bad. Therefore, the total cotton output this year will not be lower than last year. "Recently, cotton prices have reached a high level, and supply shortage is an important reason for this cotton price increase. With the economic recovery, the demand for cotton has increased, resulting in tight cotton supplies and higher prices. But recent cotton prices hit a new high in more than a decade. It is also related to the pursuit of hot money. "Someone may be frying the cotton." "(Shen Hui Shi Xiaolei Qi Qingyan)