At a news conference a few days ago, quality supervision, inspection and quarantine, quality supervision, inspection and quarantine inspection supervision department Sun Wenkang released 2016 annual national import cotton quality white paper (hereinafter referred to as "white paper").

By the world economic situation and the domestic supply and demand changes and price factors, such as cotton imports continued to decline in recent years, in 2016 the country imports cotton number compared with the same period in 2015 was a dramatic drop in again, the national entry-exit inspection and quarantine institutions total imports cotton inspection group, 46800 tons, $3926 and $46800, compared with 2015 decreased by 37.9%, 35.8% and 37.9% respectively.

In 2016, imported cotton from 30 countries and regions in our country, Australia, India, Brazil, the United States, uzbekistan as cotton imports in China top five countries, imports accounted for 88.5% of total imports, the total weight of total value accounts for 88.9% of the total value. In 2016, our country also from Argentina, Egypt, benin, Togo, 24 countries and regions, such as France and Hong Kong, China imported cotton, a total of 525 batches, 109300 tons, the total value of 177.1383 million dollars, accounted for 13.37% of total imports, 11.54% of the total weight, 11.13% of the total value. The average degradation rate of 10.51% cotton import countries and regions, long drop rate was 10.13%, the inconsistent at a rate of 6.45%, strong discrepancy rate was 4.84%, there is short weight at a rate of 1.4%.

In 2016 the national overall quality imported cotton the arrival of the situation than the same period in 2015 increased, in addition to the strong fraction defective is compared with the same period in 2015 increased slightly, grade, length, at not pass rate compared with the same period in 2015 declined. But the quality of cotton in some major importers is lower than in 2015.

According to the statistics, the overall average non-conformity rate of the category was 11.54%, down 3.18 percentage points from 14.72 percent in the same period of 2015, and the reduction from 0.5 to 4. The overall average unconformity rate was 5.93 percent, down 0.72 percentage points from the same period in 2015 (6.65 percent). The overall average unconformity rate of the mark was 3.11%, down 0.08 percentage points from the same period in 2015 (3.19%). The overall average unconformity rate of fibre was 5.79%, up 0.95 percentage points from the same period of 2015 (4.84%).

The shortage of weight is still outstanding in terms of the weight of the goods imported. The survey found that 84.23% of the batch was short weight, the overall average of 0.74 percent, down 0.06 percentage points from the same period of 2015 (0.80 percent).

In terms of quality, 2016 imported cotton quality degradation reason mainly has the following several aspects: one is the cotton growing conditions, climate, picking method, rolling process and so on factors, causing the deterioration of the quality of individual batches of cotton. In addition, different production areas, different batches of cotton and the sale result in the cotton quality consistency difference. The second is that the overall economic situation is weak and the spinning industry is particularly hard. Domestic textile mills and the downstream enterprises resulted from the insufficient consumer demand in the first consideration when buying cotton prices, the arrival of the goods due to price low quality cannot be guaranteed. The mixing of cotton grades is more, and the consistency difference is not conducive to the maintenance of the economic interests of the cotton enterprises. Three is on the strength of the sample volume of samples and the actual delivery of the cotton quality difference is too big, clinch a deal the small kind of production and management is not standard, its quality is often higher than the big goods, led directly to the big goods quality degradation. Four is affected by cotton prices at home and abroad, actual delivery of the cotton quality often appear quality differences in the contract, and does not rule out the interests of the suppliers to reduce the contract to produce loss at shoddy. Fifth, the import of large quantities of Brazilian cotton and the quality of cotton and cotton was lower, which was down from the same period in 2015, and pulled down the overall quality of the cotton goods. Sixth, the cotton that is delivered in the form of a small amount of cargo in the contract, the quality of the cotton that is actually arrived usually shows the difference between the quality of the contract and the quality of the contract.

In weight, the shortage of weight is still outstanding. Main reasons: one is the hot dry weather in countries such as India does not favor the seed cotton processing, used in the process of crimped wire spray processing, lead to Indian cotton moisture content is larger, moisture regain after long-distance transportation changes caused by the weight difference, but does not rule out the artificial water to bale will cause weight difference. Second, the reason for trade practice is market behavior, which is difficult to change in the short term. But since the implementation of the credit evaluation system of overseas suppliers, the phenomenon has been greatly reduced. Third, because of the profit motive, the existence of individual foreign suppliers is not good faith, intentionally short dress, to a certain extent cause short weight.

In other respects, there is a difference in packaging quality, and the quality of cotton packaging in different countries is very different. On the one hand, it is related to the level of cotton processing technology in various countries, and on the other hand, it has to do with the importance of countries.

For imported cotton quality, white paper suggested the enterprise a cotton is to strengthen trade contract standardization, the second is the management of imports of cotton packing, three is that enterprises should strengthen the foreign supply cotton packaging and quality control.