1, raw material prices, the cost of production exert tremendous pressure. By the impact of rising oil prices, the main raw material bags, such as polyester and PVC, PU film raw materials prices rose sharply. Such as PU price rises in 2002 to reach 50%; PVC, polyester cloth and bags of products and auxiliary materials, zippers, buckles and other prices in 2005 rose by 5% -10%; prices for various raw materials makes raise business costs on average about 20% lower profit margins for businesses bags pose a huge cost pressure.
2, bags and safety hazards of products at low prices, trade barriers to trade there face hidden. With environmental protection, safety awareness, quality of content on luggage requirements are the product of a qualitative change, more attention to environmental protection, safety, light and so on. EU and other regions of the luggage product safety standards continue to improve, this year is called the new REACH chemical registration, authorization and evaluation system, which strengthened the market within the EU chemical and chemical products containing controlled of bags required to enter the EU must provide a content test than at this stage more stringent chemical testing evidence. EU safety standards to improve not only for the export of products to bring bags hidden trade barriers, while also increasing the company's testing costs. On the other hand, China's exports still rely on bags at low prices squeeze the European Union, the United States and other international market share, the price is too low can easily lead to anti-dumping investigations in foreign countries.
3, the lack of a systematic production of own brand and model is the luggage industry, "inherent." Most current production of bags belonging to middle and low, high value-added products and less high-tech, export unit price of bags is just a fraction of imported bags and even a few one-tenth; weak awareness of IPR protection business, multi-copy, less innovation, more popular and dependable, less its own brand. In the international market, China's own-brand bag is almost empty, the lack of personality, development prospects and the strength of the brand. While domestic production has been a great bag size, but the overall lack of a systematic mode of production, co-produced the self-employed also account for a large proportion of which is the production base in China as the world's luggage did not match the position, will restricting luggage industry's long-term development.
The main U.S. production of bags is California State, Florida, Illinois, New York and Texas. As more and more American luggage bags manufacturers outsource production to low labor costs to other countries such as China, Malaysia, Thailand, the U.S. domestic market share of luggage is currently only 17.8%, while the U.S. market imported bags accounted for 82.2% share of imports amounted to $ 4.44 billion, so the bags on the U.S. market, mainly from imports.
Our luggage exports to the U.S. increased rapidly in recent years, accounting for the growing U.S. import market share, China is the largest importer of U.S. luggage, ranking second in the Italian luggage exports to the U.S. only exports about 10% I .
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U.S. leather bags there are four categories of domestic sales channels, the first category is the store, mainly in the $ 250 price or more, such as Bentley's, Altman's, Turni and Kaehler Travel Works, which sells brand-name bags, barely in these stores in China bags, all manufactured by U.S. domestic manufacturers; second is the more upscale department stores and supermarkets, the price should be cheaper than the stores, bags of brand awareness but also worse than the first category, such as Macy's, Dayton Hudson, Marshall Field's and Sear's, etc., sold in bags in these stores, in China, about 30%; third category is the large discount supermarkets such as WalMart, Kmart and Walgreen stores, the price is cheaper, but most of copies are not well-known brand, which accounts for about 50% of Chinese-made, as well as Thailand, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Taiwan and other countries and regions production; The fourth category is online sales, low high school are all kinds of brands.
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