January 28, the reporter interviewed Zhongshan City, Guangdong informed local toy exporter have all kinds of barriers to trade, the RMB exchange rate issue, and the continuing rise in raw material costs,labor costs and other whooped .
Zhongshan is located in the hinterland of the Pearl River Delta, is one of the important toy export base in Guangdong Province, with exports accounting for about 10% of Guangdong, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, except. Zhongshan Inspection and Quarantine Bureau staff Wu said, 2012 Zhongshan tested toys for export of 48,514 batches, the value of $ 642 million, two data decreased by 2.7% and 6.6%, compared with last year, this is the Zhongshan toy exports for the second decline.
Toy export decreased have a lot of reasons, the trade barriers is one of the important reasons, Europe and the United States have to implement and enforce the EU 2012/7/EC directive from last year’s March 23 to July 20, the U.S. toy ASTMF963-2011 new EU Toy Safety Directive, is big challenge for guandong toys trade.
Inflation environment, labor costs continued to rise. Zhongshan City, the minimum wage from 920 yuan in 2010, 2011 / month rose to 1,100 yuan / month, lofty toy factory business department heads reflected told reporters last year, the plant labor costs rose more than 10%.
In addition, the appreciation of the RMB is eating the toy export enterprises profits. With the a QE4 arrival of the RMB is facing strong pressure to appreciate.
Xie Lin, Zhongshan Inspection and Quarantine Bureau staff told reporters, Zhongshan total toy export have license production is 118 enterprises, mainly in the production of plastic toys, electric toys, cloth toys, stroller products and other traditional toys, exports trade more than $ 10 million have 14 enterprise.
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