The Study Of The International Trade Of Textile And Clothing In China After Quota Age

Although the global textile and clothing quota was canceled based on theAgreement of Textile and Clothing in WTO on 1 January 2005, it is not areal freedom for textile and clothing at all for China. It has beenregulated, by the 242 segment of Report of the Working Party on theAccession of China, and by the 16th item of Protocol on the Accession ofthe People's Republic of China that trade in textile and clothingproducts should be affected by specific safeguard mechanism. And Americanand EU even abuse the specific safeguard, so the trade barriers becamea serious problem. This paper includes comparative analysis and factoranalysis to be more comprehensive, and bring forward to some suggestionsunder the comprehensive analysis. The game between big countries in thispaper revealed the complexity of international trade in China's textileand clothing.There must be some relations between the high export increasing rate andthe superiority of China. The quantity of the textile and clothing exportis increasing rapidly. The textile and clothing made in China have obviousadvantages in quantity, price and the flexibility of style. Chinesetextile industry is weak in export structure, brand and marketing channel.So textile industry of China is not so competitive as the large exportquantity displayed. In contrast with Latin American and Turkey, it isshort of the advantages in economy and politics of geography. But due tothe price, flexibility and full industry, the market of Chinese textileand clothing is big both in American and EU and the competition betweenChina and American, EU is comparatively severe.The export in textile and clothing of China confront with joint block. There are mainly two factors that affect China's textile and clothingexport. First, it's trade barriers. Many developing countries take partin the developed countries to set many barriers to the export of ChineseTextile and Clothing, because they will compete with China in Worldtextile and clothing market. The developed countries use the specificsafeguard measure and anti-dumping to prevent China's export. Second,the political reasons from the developed countries make them to preventChina's textile and clothing export.To settle the trade friction, China should pay attention to both thetextile industry and global relation. Firstly, the competitive brandowned by Chinese textile and clothing enterprises and the higher marketingchannel are very important. Secondly, good diplomatism with eitherdeveloping countries or developed countries and sincere communicationbetween textile and clothing companies and importers is the base to solvethe trade friction. Thirdly, it is helpful to taking part in the procedureof law amend and rules making in WTO positively for China, to protect itslegal rights in the international trade of textile and clothing.