Australian Textile And Apparel Export Competitiveness Study

With global textile and clothing trade coming into "post quote time", Australia has becoming a fairly ideal exporting market.The intra-industry trade between China and Australian in the textile and apparel trade is mainly based on complementary,supplemented by competition. The paper calculated Specifically Trade Specialization Coefficient index,the Market Share index,Regional Revealed Comparative Advantage index,Export Contribution Rate index,Regional Revealed Competitive Advantage index for the top nine export countries and regions to Australian in textiles and garments (China,Hong Kong,India,South Korea,the United States,Indonesia,Thailand,Malaysia,New Zealand)in 1993,1999 and 2005.It grades and made the integrative compositor by factor analysis in terms of textile fabric,article of textile and related products,article of apparel and related products,then clustering analysis is used to prove the veracity of the compositor.Further the paper analyse the deep-rooted reasons of the competitiveness ranking results of China's textiles and garments export to Australia from the industrial environment,products and enterprises.The discovery from the study is as follows:the textile and clothing's export of China to Australia was converging attacked by developing countries such as India, Indonesia,Thailand and developed countries such as the Republic of Korea,the United States at the same time.Compared with major competitors,textile fibers do not have competitiveness and textiles and clothing has obvious advantages in China.The superiority mainly lies in the price advantage which the low-cost labor transforms and the good industrial developing environment;the inferiority is the single product mix,too large proportion of low-grade products,the lack of brands,existing a gap in the factor of products,enterprises,technology, compared with the advanced international level.Finally,some strategies are put forward while combined with the inferiority.