After 15 years of negotiation and waiting for long, China finally December 11, 2001 officially became a member of the world trade organization. At that time, the textile and apparel industry as one of the biggest businesses in benefit. Ten years between, the wily, market and changeful, the Chinese textile industry meander along the way.

Before the accession to the world trade organization, export quota has been most Chinese textile enterprise insuperable gully. And according to textile clothing agreement, begin from 1995 ten years in four stages in the wto member states cancelled between textile and clothing quotas, sharing of free trade. On January 1, 2005 for the last stage, all quotas on all cancelled. So far, the global textile clothing trade balances for 40 years of quotas finally come to an end.

China's textile, director of the center for economic research SunHuaiBin think, China only become a member of the WTO, can really into the textile clothing trade liberalization. In 2002, China's textile industry is the historic opportunity, the total output value, profits and export three main economic index new highs.

According to the world trade organization of the data showed that in 2001, the Chinese textile clothing export share of global export share is about sixteen percent in 2009, about thirty-two percent of world exports in 2010 and was up to thirty-three percent.

Ten years China's entry to the wto, the Chinese textile clothing export basically keeps the double-digit growth, ten years accumulative total growth nearly 3 times, textile and apparel exports the proportion of global market as high as thirty percent above. China has deservedly into the world's first big textile and apparel exporter.

From China's textile industry association of statistics showed that in 2010, China's textile and apparel exports of $206.5 billion, a 268.75% increase over 2000, years of rising.

China's textile industry association to think about expert analysis, the China became the first big textile exporters, is mainly thanks to China's accession to the world trade organization, Europe and the United States and other countries to the cancellation year by year China textile and clothing products quotas, make China textile clothing production ability get released in full.

However, in the wto to Chinese textile clothing export brings opportunities at the same time, foreign trade protectionism has become more and more serious.

In 2005, China's textile industry in "quota era" to keep the rapid growth in, each index hit a record high-China's textile and apparel exports growing at around twenty-one percent, with seventy-one percent growth in exports to the United States, of China's textile and apparel exports in sixteen percent of the total.

In the quota of cancel the following, along with trade liberalization and to have is the deluge of anti-dumping investigation and technical barriers to trade shower. Europe and the United States to China textile clothing lose on the surge in Europe and the United States, with China to central Europe, China and the United States signed a memorandum of textile and apparel, continue to implement the restrictions. In addition, Turkey, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, South Africa, and many developing countries, also joined with all sorts of trade relief means China's textile export restrictions of force.

Since then, for Chinese textile clothing export all kinds of anti-dumping investigation has been set up there. Authority statistics show that although China accounts for less than ten percent of world exports export, but in China the anti-dumping, anti-subsidy cases the highest percentage, to a third of the global respectively and half, meantime again with textile clothing why.

In recent years, countries and areas of Chinese textile clothing export trade protection has already become more and more the norm, all these make China's textile and apparel exports faced unprecedented pressure.

So far, China's textile exports after quota after let go of rapid growth, has stepped into moderate growth stage. China's textile industry creativity and export quality all have greatly enhanced, and every turn the increase in the number of mainly to export pattern.

The "eleventh five-year plan" period, exports of textiles export growth in the number of the contribution rate of forty-five percent to, and the contribution of value growth accounted for fifty-six percent. From 2008 to 2010, despite the number of Chinese clothing exports have declined, but the value of exports has increased by twenty-five percent.

With China's domestic labor and raw materials, energy costs continue to rise, and foreign many uncertain factors of trade, China textile clothing industry "the low cost, high growth" era has become the past.

At present, Chinese textile clothing export in scale, and begins to peak has reached a turn in the industry in the future will face structure adjustment, transformation and upgrade of life and death choice. China's textile industry association DuYuZhou stressed that the contribution rate of the brand and the contribution of science and technology improve digestion to various unfavorable factors, the textile industry in the future to drive innovation, seize the textile industry by big strong realize the important period of strategic opportunities.

But this, China to global textile clothing export power from had become the export power.

Source "the Chinese textile nets"

Edit: Emma