Recently, the three-day 2025 China International Textile Yarn (Autumn/Winter) Exhibition came to a successful conclusion at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai). As a grand gathering of global textile industry elites, this exhibition attracted professional buyers and traders from over 40 countries. It is worth noting that the relevant data released by the General Administration of Customs for August 2025 has been mutually corroborated with the international feedback at the exhibition site, reflecting the general sluggishness of the international market and highlighting the strong development resilience and new development pattern of China's textile and garment industry.
The chill of the international market and the warmth of China
During the exhibition, genuine feedback from traders from different countries depicted the common predicament of the current global textile and garment market. The experience of a Panamanian clothing trader is quite representative - the company has long adopted the model of "purchasing raw materials in China + manufacturing and processing in Malaysia", and its products are supplied to Central American countries such as Mexico. It once briefly entered the US market. However, after the United States imposed a 20% high tariff on Panamanian textiles and clothing, the price competitiveness of the products plummeted, forcing them to withdraw from this once important market. What is even more worrying is that other core overseas markets are also experiencing sluggish demand due to local economic weakness. Consumers' purchasing power and willingness continue to decline, and enterprises are under dual pressure from tariffs and the economy. The experience of this enterprise is not an isolated case but a common challenge faced by many small and medium-sized international textile traders at present.
Amid the general market downturn, China's textile supply chain has become a "safe haven" for many foreign-funded enterprises to cope with the pressure. The Uzbek denim clothing trader participating in the Shanghai exhibition for the first time mainly focuses on local production and its products are mainly targeted at the domestic market. Facing the challenges of sluggish domestic consumer demand and a significant increase in consumers' sensitivity to prices, the enterprise has set its sights on China - they hope to find suppliers of denim fabric with reasonable and stable prices here and ensure production profits by controlling raw material costs. This choice reflects the high recognition of the maturity and cost-effectiveness of China's textile supply chain by global purchasers.
Azerbaijani sock traders demonstrated the irreplaceability of specific Chinese textile raw materials. The enterprise has been plagued by fluctuations in domestic demand over the past two years and has been hesitant about whether to raise the prices of its products. The Russian market has become its largest overseas market, and the raw materials needed for bamboo fiber socks favored by Russian consumers can almost only be purchased from China - Chinese bamboo fiber not only has a significant price advantage but also a highly stable supply. Despite the continuous contraction of the European market and the pressure of a 15% tariff imposed by the US on the EU on exports to the US, the trader still stated that he was unwilling to give up the business he had run all his life and would persist in waiting for the market to improve. Behind this persistence lies a reliance and trust in the stability of China's supply chain.
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