Faced with growing green trade barriers, China, as the world’s largest textile exporter, is building a sustainable textile supply chain and will build a “green channel” for textile exports.
Jiang Zengwei, President of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said at the “China-EU Sustainable Supply Chain High-Level Forum” that China-EU textile trade occupies an important position in China-EU trade. In 2015, China’s textile exports to the EU accounted for 11.3% of the EU’s total imports from China. Optimizing the sustainable supply chain of the textile industry will further increase the scale of China-EU trade and is also of great significance in leading global trade out of the trough.
The damage caused by green trade barriers to my country’s textile trade cannot be underestimated. It is estimated that in 2015, my country’s losses due to substandard EU green testing accounted for 18.9% of my country’s total textile and apparel exports to the EU that year. Moreover, the EU’s new environmental protection policy – Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) has entered the experimental stage. Once adopted, it will bring severe challenges to the export of our textile industry.
The forum will release the “China Textile Sustainable Supply Chain Action Plan”. According to the plan, four major projects will be implemented: sustainable standard system construction, production intelligence, innovative design, and green brand building. The formulation of standards for textiles, textile intelligent manufacturing, etc. will be strengthened in every link of the textile supply chain, striving to reach 2036. , my country’s textile industry has established a world-leading technology system and sustainable production standard system.
Zhao Ping, director of the International Trade Research Department of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, pointed out that building a sustainable supply chain can break down green trade barriers for textile exports on the one hand, and at the same time promote the transformation of domestic textile enterprises, and also help improve the competitiveness of Chinese enterprises in international trade. The right to speak in the formulation of rules. China builds a sustainable textile supply chain and builds a “green channel” for exports
