China's Textile Machinery Import in 2005

ITMA ASIA + CITME 2008  () 2007-01-31 

China Custom’s statistics showed that the import of textile machinery made by China in 2005 was U.S. dollar 3.445 billion falling 24.06 per cent year-on-year.

In 2005, China gave priority to import knitting, printing & dyeing and finishing machinery, in which knitting machinery taking up 22.84 per cent of the total import, printing & dyeing and finishing machinery, taking up 21.18 per cent, weaving machinery 17.88 per cent, accessories and spare parts 11.67 per cent, chemical fiber machinery 10.67 per cent, weaving preparation machinery 2.14 and no-woven machinery 1.19 per cent only.

The detail as follows:

Unit: USD

Description	accumulative total	amount in 2004	yoy % change
Total	3444920055	4536446361	-24.06
Knitting machinery	786656046	919921090	-14.49
printing / dyeing & finishing machinery	729609525	744953379	-2.06
weaving machinery	615847200	665609041	-7.48
spinning machinery	444078823	660512339	-32.77
Acc/spare parts	402133368	518810365	-22.49
Weaving preparing machinery	73879950	169754844	-56.48
Non-woven machinery	41127384	84327474	-51.23

In 2005, the main countries and regions to import textile machinery in China were Japan, Germany, Italy, Taiwan China and accumulative total   amount in 2004      yoy 5 change
 as the follows:

Unit: USD

No.	Country/region	accumulative total	amount in 2004	yoy 5 change
	Total	3444920055	4536446361	-24.06
1	Japan	956518876	1346769147	-28.98
2	Germany	884253052	1197884574	-26.18
3	Italy	444049056	429527506	3.38
4	Taiwan China	239052121	280201580	-14.69
5	South Korea	198003436	393153130	-49.64

The textile machinery imported by own foreign venture in China in 2005 was USD 1.115 billion, down 1.04 per cent on the previous year, the import by the state-own companies in China was USD 0.792 billion, down 25.99 per cent year-on-year, the import by the joint venture companies was USD 0.577 billion, down 48.29 per cent, the import by the private companies was USD 0.5 billion, down 12.72 per cent year-on-year, the import by the collective companies was USD 0.414 billion, down 23.02 per cent, the import by the china & foreign cooperative companies was USD 0.046 billion, down 58.53 and the import by other companies was USD 0.17733 million.

The top 10 provinces or cities to import textile machinery in 2005 as follows:

 

Province/city      accumulative total   amount in 2004      yoy 5 change
    Total                  3444920055         4536446361           -24.06
 Guangdong               735036281          745020074           -1.34
Jiangsu                     679080037          1122125425          -38.48
Zhejiang                    665124101          1123123391          -40.78
Shandong                  542385724           549343211           -1.27
Shanghai                   225976483          275533019            -17.99
Fujian                       192051723           209069830            -8.14
Beijing                        81606096           130597992            -37.51
Tianjin                        77173072            24509306             214.87
Hebei                          58941562            69777134            -15.53
Liaoning                      43086100             37678567             14.35