Saudi Arabia To Lift The Threshold Of Shoes Business Is Difficult To Do

Recently, Saudi Arabia has introduced new regulations on imported shoes, which means that the threshold of China's shoe exports has been raised again.

A number of shoe enterprises said that the number of footwear exported to Saudi Arabia has dropped sharply since the implementation of the new regulation, and the export profits of enterprises have been reduced.

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Raise the threshold again.

Reporters learned that Saudi Arabia started this year.

The implementation of SASO testing new regulations, that is, Saudi Arabia customs compulsory inspection of entry products, disqualified products will not be allowed to enter.

In recent years, China has exported a lot of shoe products in the Saudi Arabian market.

According to relevant statistics, in 2014, China exported Saudi Arabia's footwear products to US $508 million.

This shows that Saudi Arabia has become one of the important markets for China's shoe exports.

Relevant officials of the China Light Industry Arts and crafts import and Export Chamber of Commerce said that the introduction of the new Saudi Arabian regulations had a great impact on Chinese shoe exporters. Some shoe companies exported Saudi Arabia because they did not understand their latest certification requirements, and the goods were stuck in Saudi customs, causing considerable losses.

In the near future, not only Saudi Arabia imposed new rules for the import of footwear products, but as early as April 1st, Egypt began to implement new regulations on imported shoes, requiring imported goods to comply with Egyptian standards, and goods that did not conform to Egyptian standards would be returned.

In addition to its new national standards, Egypt also recognizes 6 other international standards, namely, the international organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standard, the European (EN) standard, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard, the American Society for testing materials (ASTM) and the Japanese industrial standard (JIS).

In addition, since May 1st, according to the latest EU regulation (EU) No301/2014, the six valent chromium content of leather products imported into the EU market and leather products or shoes and clothing such as skin contact must be less than 3mg/kg, otherwise it will not be listed.

Business is hard.

Reporters learned that "recently, our enterprises exported to Saudi Arabia."

The number of products dropped significantly, export volume also declined rapidly, and the export profits of enterprises decreased.

Dongguan, Guangdong Province, an unnamed export footwear company official said.

"This new standard refers to the international standard, which is close to the EU standard. However, the grade of our enterprises exporting Saudi shoes is not high, and the on-site management and technological level of most shoe companies can not ensure the quality of each pair of shoes.

The Saudi customs has to detect a pair of shoes at random for each container, and it is not allowed to appeal or to raise objections to the test again.

Once the standards are arrived, we can either give up or improve the quality of products to meet the testing conditions.

In this way, the production cost will have to be improved. "

"We dare not pick up too many lists," he said. "Recently, we are afraid to pick up too many lists. On the one hand, we are communicating with customers. On the other hand, we want to wait and see again," said a person in charge of a shoe export enterprise in Wenling, Zhejiang.

So Saudi Arabia's export volume fell during this period.

"After the introduction of the new regulations, we visited 22 shoe exporting enterprises and two foreign trade companies with relatively large export volume, of which only 5 enterprises maintained export trade with Saudi Arabia. 5 enterprises clearly stated that they would no longer take orders from Saudi Arabia, 7 enterprises did not understand the new policy, 5 enterprises knew the new rules, but they were still developing after wait-and-see."

Relevant staff of Taizhou entry exit inspection and Quarantine Bureau said.

Reporters learned that in addition to strict standards may lead to a decline in corporate product profits, the extension of customs clearance time of export enterprises also led to higher customs clearance costs.

According to the relevant staff of Taizhou entry exit inspection and Quarantine Bureau, before entering Saudi Arabia

Daily customs clearance is required, and now every batch of goods must be sampled and sent to the laboratory for testing. The results can only be determined if the goods are released.

This leads to a long detection cycle, with an average of 40 days per shipment to complete customs clearance.

At the same time, the Saudi government increased the cost of customs clearance and passed the inspection fees to exporters virtually, and the time and cost of customs clearance were also pferred to enterprises.

According to the insiders, in view of the frequent implementation of the new product inspection regulations in the international market, China's shoe enterprises should carefully study and actively respond to the effective control costs, improve the quality and technology level, and pay attention to the brand line, and complete the pformation from the low end to the high-end.