Cotton Spinning Enterprises Should Strengthen Imported Cotton Trade to Avoid Risk Awareness

In recent years, with the rapid development of the domestic textile industry, the domestic market demand for cotton has also increased significantly, especially in the first half of this year, domestic and foreign cotton spreads are larger, there is a demand gap in domestic cotton, plus a large number of mid- Reserves, one after another, arrived in a row, and the import volume of cotton surged.

Imports of cotton will help improve the tight supply and demand situation of China's domestic resources and curb domestic cotton prices. However, under the circumstances that China’s cotton imports have increased significantly, problems with the quality of imported cotton have occurred from time to time, and many textile companies have suffered varying degrees of losses.

To this end, the inspection and quarantine department called on the relevant import cotton spinning enterprises to increase their awareness of trade risks, and fully understand the international market conditions and reputation of the cotton traders. They can consult the inspection and quarantine authorities on the precautions of purchasing cotton at the current stage, and effectively assist the inspection and quarantine departments in accordance with the inspection procedures for imported cotton. It truly safeguards its legitimate rights and interests.

Strengthen the standardization of trade contracts

With the opening of the cotton trade, there have been more and more suppliers overseas, and there have been more and more signs of non-standard quality indicators. Mainly in the contract to sign a different grade, a number of length indicators, a range of fineness to a value, strength both the minimum and average strength required. If there are barely M in the signed grade indicators, it is close to three levels. Is the actual test three-level or two-level semi-processed?

Imported cotton from the bonded area, in the terms of the contract, foreign cotton companies often require the domestic cotton spinning enterprises to only sign “the weight results are based on the CIQ certificate” in the contract, and the quality does not use the CIQ results for settlement or claim. In addition, some non-bonded area cotton contract additional clause provides no quality claim (no quality claim), the United States has a king of green card cotton terms, does not allow claims, combined with the inspection and quarantine part of the actual detection situation, no claim cotton and green card cotton is not perfect, how many exist Degraded quality. This means that domestic cotton spinning companies give up more claims and lose more.

These non-standard contracts have caused a lot of inconvenience to sampling and inspection work. It is impossible to distinguish the individual sampling of cotton bales, which has brought many problems and confusions to the accuracy of laboratory test results, data processing, and the impartiality of quality certificates. Affect the certification and statistics, the certificate format and statistical reports can not be expressed. At the same time, the company’s foreign business claims cannot find a reasonable basis. Therefore, enterprises are encouraged to sign the China Cotton Association and China Textile Articles, and foreign companies with high credibility and guaranteed supply quality have signed standardized contracts to better protect the interests of the country and the enterprise.

Pay attention to sampling and weighing work

Weight appraisal is an indispensable link in the import and export trade. According to the statistics of China's imported cotton over the years, more than 90% of batches are short and the amount of short-term claims is considerable. Therefore, this work is very important and often requires companies. Many aspects of cooperation. This requires companies to self-discipline, strengthen the management of related work, equipped with the necessary equipment, venues, materials, etc., to ensure the smooth development of the work.

Once an import cotton spinning company has learned about the approximate time for the import of cotton into the factory or warehouse, it shall promptly notify the inspection and quarantine department of the jurisdiction where it is located and agree on time to take the sample and assess it. At the same time prepare related weights and equipment, sampling kraft paper, open pliers, utility knife, marking pens and so on.

Common non-standard sampling problems are: samples are not representative, take the edge, the knife or the surface of the poor cotton, and even some companies in order to obtain unlawful benefits, repeated sampling from the poor cotton bale; sample kraft paper is not marked, can not Differentiated; due to the concentration of imported goods by some enterprises, they are sent to the laboratory for testing, which results in poor sample keeping, and some even suffer from dampness and mildew. This directly affects the authenticity of subsequent quality inspections; the number of samples is insufficient in weight and the number of samples is insufficient. 10% of the number of bags and sample weight are less than 250g to 300g. The representativeness and quantity weight of the sampling directly affect the results of subsequent quality inspections, and cannot result in trade imbalances because of its small profits.

The common problems in the identification work include: the company's weighing instruments have not been measured or calibrated in time or have exceeded the validity period; the code sheet is not standardized, and the correction and review are not detailed. For cases where mildew, oil stains, and fire burned cotton are found in sampling and weighing work, they should immediately notify the trade or the third-party appraisal agency, together with the inspection and quarantine department, carry out the appraisal of the damage, identify the cause of the damage, distinguish the responsibility for the liability, and earnestly safeguard the enterprise. Interests.

Do a good job in imported cotton packaging management

At present, the imported cotton packaging is rather confusing, the US cotton packaging is better, and the information on the outer packaging tag is clear, but there are many types of packaging, including sack bags and woven bags that are easy to produce foreign fibers during transportation; cotton packaging in India, Uzbekistan and other countries It is very easy to damage, blow out the bag, and the information outside the package is not clear, it is not easy to identify. Not only did the textile companies clean up the "triple silk" work, but the important thing was that it caused a serious impact on the production of textile enterprises and caused direct or indirect economic losses.

In view of the existence of this situation, it is recommended to add mandatory technical requirements for packaging in the terms of the contract. It should further clarify the packaging terms and the terms of liability for imported cotton. It should also try to require uniform packaging and clear marks for the import of cotton. When the packaging problem has a problem affecting quality and use, it makes a claim.

Familiar with imported cotton inspection process

At present, the main source countries of China's imported cotton are the United States and India. The differences in growth conditions, varieties, and the manner in which the cotton is picked by different machines in different regions of the U.S. cotton make it difficult for some cotton to mature sufficiently, the length is tight and the micronaire value is low. At the same time, there are many leaf swarf and high impurities. The most outstanding problem is that Chen cotton has gray color, poor luster, tight or short length, more leaf swarf, and relatively thick or thin micronaire values. The cotton strength of individual batches is poor. Due to the backwardness of picking and rolling methods, Indian cotton has poor quality of cotton rolling, more leaf swarf and more heterosexual fibers. Due to the influence of its varieties, the micronaire value is low and the rate of disqualification is high.

The main reason for the unsatisfactory quality of imported cotton was that the contract performance of foreign cotton suppliers decreased. The performance of the supplier is not good, and there are cases of low pay, delivery, or even adulteration during delivery; due to the tight supply of international cotton, the international cotton price is extremely active, and foreign cotton suppliers have difficulties in delivery of cotton during delivery. In order to fulfill the contract, or to extend the shipment period, or to deliver the cotton that was delivered to **, it is impossible to ensure that the cotton quality is consistent with the contractual requirements. Followed by high cotton index indicators caused the spot quality can not meet the requirements. With the development of international trade in imported cotton, the scope of trade in importing cotton is also expanding. Some domestic cotton companies do not understand the cotton quality and characteristics of the country when they import cotton from other countries. They have to request cotton in the contract. Grades, specifications, and other indicators are implemented with reference to the grades in the US Cotton Standard, and the country’s cotton quality does not meet the contractual requirements of the contract, resulting in some unacceptable cotton indicators.

Many non-textile professionals in foreign trade procurement personnel in cotton spinning companies and trading enterprises often do not understand the basic knowledge and quality inspection procedures of cotton, and often have the content of the company consulting the quality index requirements for testing, and the process and standards for the quality inspection of imported cotton. The environment and the requirements of personnel are even less known.

Therefore, it is recommended that relevant cotton importing companies must fully collect and study the basic knowledge of the cotton of the importing country concerned, understand the connotation of each quality index and the impact on the downstream process, and secondly, understand the process of quality inspection of imported cotton, and focus on understanding the quality inspection. The methods, standards, and outcomes are determined so that they can visit the qualified cotton testing laboratories and consult on-site. In addition, because imported cotton is a large-scale trade agricultural product, it is not a unified product of standardized production, there are often certain differences, which means that many batches of quality degradation occurs, but does not mean that it must be unqualified, not equal to the so-called black heart In cotton, cotton enterprises should treat them as a whole and reasonably arrange downstream production according to the proportion of degraded quality certificates.