With the increase of the world's population, the adjustment of the silk industry structure and technological innovation, coupled with the deepening of people's understanding of natural silk products, silk consumption will continue to grow steadily. However, with the integration of the global economy and China's accession to the WTO, competition in the silk market will become increasingly fierce.
1. Silk trade barriers restrict fair competition
From the perspective of the entire textile industry, silk exports have relatively few trade barriers and a relatively loose export environment, but they have also been restricted by trade barriers such as quotas and tariffs. At the same time, due to the impact of textile trade barriers, the export of cross-products interwoven with textile materials such as real silk, cotton and linen has been greatly restricted. The European Union and the United States are the main sales markets for Chinese silk. In order to resist a large amount of low-priced Chinese silk and silk apparel imports and avoid an impact on the silk circulation industry, the EU and the United States began to impose quota restrictions on Chinese silk and apparel imports in 1994. Since 1998, although Europe and the United States have cancelled some quotas for Chinese silk products, certain restrictions are still imposed. In order to protect its own interests, Japan has imposed the most restrictions on the import of Chinese silk products. With the popularity of silk, linen, silk and cotton and other blended fabrics in the international market, the impact of textile quota restrictions on the expansion of silk apparel and market space has become more and more obvious.
2. Countries have squeezed into the international silk market
Silk consumption spreads all over the world. China and Brazil are the main export suppliers of silkworm cocoons and raw silk in the world silk market. China, Japan, South Korea, India and Thailand are the main export suppliers of silk fabrics in the world. China, Japan and South Korea are also the main export suppliers of silk clothing in the world silk market. The main export supplier. There is almost no sericulture industry in France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Hong Kong, China. They mainly import raw silk and silk and other raw materials after deep processing for domestic and foreign consumption. The United States, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and some North American countries directly import silk products for domestic consumption. With the recovery and growth of the world economy, countries have aimed at the global silk market and strived to expand their silk product exports. The rise and development of silk producing countries such as India and Vietnam will further squeeze the international market share. South Korea, Italy, Germany and other countries use their technological advantages to import cocoon silk raw materials from China, Japan, and Brazil, and then export them to developed countries such as the United States after processing. They have become China's strongest competitors in silk garment exports.
