Cotton Prices Fell &Nbsp; Winter Clothing Rose &Nbsp; Cheap Cotton Did Not Trip Up.

Since November, winter

In 2010, soaring cotton prices once became the focus of attention.

In those days, the price of seed cotton increased from 6 yuan per kilogram to 10 yuan, and the highest price rose to nearly 16 yuan.

Cotton prices plummeted in 2011.

At present, the new cotton market is at its peak. In the main cotton producing areas such as Yuncheng and Linfen in Shanxi Province, the price of the seed cotton market has been declining due to the continuous decline of the domestic cotton spot market price.

According to China cotton trading network information, in November 1st, the purchase price of Linfen grade 4 seed cotton was 6.8 yuan / kg, which is close to the low level in 2010.

The cotton market is in the doldrums, so it is difficult to fetter the price rise of the downstream winter clothing.

In November 3rd, the author visited a number of stores in the provincial capital and found that the price of winter clothing, such as warm underwear and overcoat, was higher than last year.

"Now 80% of the goods in the counter are new winter clothes."

In the four floor of a shopping mall in Liu Xiang, a shopping guide for a men's clothing brand.

For this year's price trend of winter clothing, the guide said frankly that there was a certain increase, "winter clothing will rise every year, the average increase this year is between 10% and 20%."

The author learned from the counters of the shopping malls that this year, the brands of the common brands were 500 yuan and one piece, which were hard to find, and the price of most brands had exceeded 1000 yuan.

The price of shirts and underwear is too high for ordinary wage earners to bear.

In shopping malls, most single shirts are priced at more than 500 yuan, while the thickened cotton shirts are priced up to 1100 yuan.

Even if the thermal underwear, set down down to more than 300 yuan.

"One month's salary is not enough to buy a winter suit."

Ms. Zhao, who is shopping in a shopping mall, sighs.

The industry believes that one of the important reasons is that the cotton price increase last year left behind "sequelae".

A person in charge of the Sales Department of a trouser company in the province told the author that because of the need to go through many links from raw materials to finished products, cotton price has a very long period of influence on the price of clothing.

Therefore, the fall in cotton prices did not directly reflect the fact that the clothing retail terminal is a normal phenomenon.

"In fact, the cotton materials used by many garment enterprises are still in the stock market at the end of last year and the beginning of this year.

The person in charge said.

At the same time, a brand clothing agent said that in addition to cotton prices, the price rise of winter clothing is also affected by the cost of raw materials such as fiber, fur and labor costs such as labor, pportation, facade leasing, and market entry fees.

In fact, the cost has been rising this year.

However, the industry said that if cotton prices continue to callback, when most of the garment manufacturers' cotton inventory is digested, the impact of the fall in cotton prices this year should appear in the spring of next year and will be uploaded to retail terminals to a certain extent.