Recently, the European Parliament voted through the EU textile agreement origin marking the second Reading. The agreement as a mandatory legislation to set up a textile exports to the EU new trade barriers, China exported textile and apparel trade will be subject to greater impact the new regulations.

EU textile agreement origin marking requirements of the Second Reading clear: the labeling of textile products must be marked with the country of origin, if the product packaging should be indicated on the packaging. Shows origin of the product label as other business documents can not be an alternative. Agreement also proposed: a textile spinning, weaving, finishing or sewing several manufacturing process at least two aspects of the production in the EU, was seen as originating in the EU textiles.

Once the EU member states formally signed the relevant agreement, I will have a significant impact related businesses: First, increase their production processes, increasing the burden on business; second is to increase trading risks and enhance the export of difficulty; third is to extend the port operating hours, add largest trade friction.

According to statistics, a total of Xiamen port during the first half of 2011 exports of textiles and clothing 4652 batch of test, the value of $ 240 million. It is understood that most of Xiamen port textile and garment enterprises are also OEM or feed processing enterprises, in addition to worry about raising export costs, port of the importing country to extend the operating hours, more worry about missing or identify the origin of irregularities caused by foreign export textile and garment products to be returned even informed of this for is suffering from recruitment difficulties, raw material prices of textile and garment exports of multiple attack enterprise, no doubt the addition of a heavy hard choices.

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