From March this year, Cotton price Began to decline, from 34 thousand yuan / ton all the way to the current 19 thousand yuan / ton, half a decline of 44%. Today, reporters visited the provincial capital market and found that despite the drop in cotton prices, the price of cotton spinning as the main raw material has not been shaken, and has even maintained a consistent upward trend.

The wholesale price of cotton has been raging all the way, but the retail merchants scattered in cities are very small. In the small shop of Jinggang weir, which runs cotton, cotton and clothing business in the provincial capital, the boss said, "the customers in my shop are all nearby residents, the crowd is fixed, and the price change has little impact on sales volume."

Although the wholesale price of cotton fell sharply, the reporter found that the price of cotton spinning as the main raw material was not only shaken, but also rising. The weather is hot, autumn and winter. clothing The new products have already been listed, and the Mid-Autumn brand new brands in the shopping malls of the provincial capital are priced at thousands of yuan.

According to market rules, the price of autumn and winter clothing may increase by 10% this year, according to market rules. Hou, who has been engaged in clothing business for nearly two years, said that cotton price is only part of the price composition of clothing, accounting for less than 20%, compared with the labor cost of 30%-100% increase, cotton price. Fall The price of clothing can not be affected at all. "Besides, most of the autumn clothes are made of spring cotton, so the impact of the cotton price drop has not been transmitted to the finished garments."

According to China's cotton net domestic price monitoring system data, the price of domestic 328 grade cotton fell from about 29 thousand yuan per ton in February 7th this year to about 19 thousand yuan a day, diving nearly 10 thousand yuan per ton. In March this year, cotton prices had risen to more than 34 thousand yuan per ton. The industry believes that the recent decline in cotton prices is mainly due to the sharp decline in cotton prices since late March, dragging down the sales prices of yarn and cloth, and weakening the sales situation.