Jiangsu cotton clothing two months price increases two-tenths of experts suspected hype (Figure)

The soaring price of cotton keeps the price of jeans rising. (Profile picture)

“The business is getting harder and harder. At the beginning of August, the purchase price has risen by more than 20%!” Yesterday afternoon, the owner of a children’s clothing store in Yuqiao Market frowned. The reporter learned that this round of rising textile prices is closely related to the high price of cotton since the first half of this year. Moreover, after the National Day, our province ushered in a new acquisition of new cotton, the purchase price rose by 50% -60% year-on-year.

Cotton cloth prices rose by 20% over two months

"Since the beginning of August, the price of goods has gone up three times. The price of the same cotton sweater last year was still 13.5 yuan. This year it was raised to 15.5 yuan." Sun Hui, a child clothing business, was interviewed yesterday when he visited Nanjing Yuqiao Market. Pointing to a child's clothing called Little Frank told reporters that this small cotton clothing has recently risen more than 20%.

In a small store named “Thousand Flowers,” Luo pointed to a khaki long windbreaker and told reporters that similarly thick cotton clothing has almost risen by about 20 yuan this year, before the sixty to seventy yuan. Can sell, now want to sell 90 yuan to return to this, a little long-sleeved shirt must also add 10 yuan to get the goods. Another boss, Zhou Lili, said that the average price of each piece of clothing has gone up by 3 to 4 yuan. The previous 25 yuan will get the goods. At least 28 yuan and 29 yuan, so many of the 45 yuan sold last year are now selling 50 yuan. Yuan.

One meter of cotton prices rose by 45 yuan

Miss He, a buyer of a well-known bedding company in Nantong, is currently rushing for raw materials for the second half of the year. “In the past five months, raw materials were basically sold for a few days, and they kept rolling up.” Many raw materials for Nantong textile enterprises are taken from a large textile city in Haimen. “Now the price of cotton yarn has reached a Ton more than 12,000 yuan. For example, we use a cotton cloth raw material, the original 25 yuan a meter, now rose to more than 29 yuan." Miss Ho analysis, this autumn, new cotton purchase prices rose again, coupled with the second half of the textile consumption season, this It is bound to bring prices such as winter clothing quilts to rise again.

【 behind price increase 】

The purchase price of new cotton in our province rose by 56 percent

With the rise in textile prices, the industry has pointed to raw cotton. “Last year, 200 yuan a year of cotton rose to 600 yuan this year. Did you say that's enough?” says one owner who works in the textile business.

The reporter also learned from the Price Monitoring Center of the Provincial Price Bureau yesterday that after the National Day, the province ushered in the climax of new cotton centralized acquisitions. Compared with last year, the purchase price of new cotton rose by 50%-60%. Due to the difference between cotton purchases and crops, after the two-month centralized acquisition period, cotton farmers have been sold sporadically for many years. In the previous six months, cotton prices have been rising all the way.

According to data approved by Nanjing Customs yesterday, the province imported cotton with US$770 million in the first three quarters of this year, an increase of 2.3 times, and the average import price was US$1845/ton, up 41.1%.

[Expert analysis]

The total output of cotton in our province has not decreased

Do not rule out the possibility of hot money speculation

The reporter learned from the Provincial Agriculture Commission that in 2008, due to the financial crisis, textile companies reduced the purchase of raw materials and the price of cotton went down. The enthusiasm for planting cotton farmers was greatly dampened. However, due to the increase in cotton yields this year and the large area of ​​floods that occurred in this year's cotton-producing areas in our province, the weather conditions are not bad. Therefore, the total cotton output this year will not be lower than last year. "Recently, cotton prices have reached a high level and supply shortage is an important reason for this cotton price increase. With the economic recovery, the demand for cotton has risen, which has led to tight cotton supplies and higher prices. However, recent cotton prices hit new highs in more than a decade. With the pursuit of hot money is also related to, "may be someone in the "fried cotton." ”