Foreign trade enterprises received orders to explode, but they all said that they did not make money.
"Our revenue was flat, and our profit fell by 50%." The head of the overseas business of a company in Zhejiang lamented during the 130th Canton Fair.
Under the influence of the complex external environment and the black swan of the epidemic, foreign trade enterprises are like riding a roller coaster, and the urgent problem in front of them is "many orders and low profits".
Costs skyrocketed
"From September last year to February and March this year, our raw materials in this category rose by about 25%, and now it continues to rise." Li Fan, deputy general manager of the Star Cold Chain Overseas Business Department, told reporters.
About 51% of the companies surveyed said that the export profit margin decreased year-on-year, 33.3% said the profit margin was basically the same as the same period last year, and only 10.6% said the profit margin had increased.
Among them, in the household appliances, tools, auto parts and more competitive lighting industry, which accounts for a high proportion of raw material costs, the decline in corporate profit margins is more obvious.
In addition, affected by the appreciation of the RMB exchange rate, the soaring sea freight rate, and the near-term electricity policy, the comprehensive cost of export enterprises has increased significantly, and the profit margin has dropped again and again.
"Take the cost of raw materials rising by 25% as an example, while the renminbi appreciates by 8 points, so that the cumulative price of the enterprise must increase by at least 30%, in order to be similar to the original profit level." The person in charge of a foreign trade enterprise in Zhejiang made a calculation.
Not making money? Raw material and labor costs are rising
"The factory looks like it's hot, and the problem is that it's not making money." Liu Long told reporters that last year's products sold for 200 US dollars, this year the price increased to 300 US dollars, but the factory still does not make money, "many customers placed orders in December last year, we were forced to refund our own orders in March this year." The price of raw materials rises, and the order is returned; the freight rate rises, and the order is refunded. ”
Many clothing companies also do not make money. Mao Yihua introduced that some enterprises in Ningbo export knitted clothing, and the average profit of a piece of clothing "may not be more than a dollar".
Xie Longfa, who does garment processing in Yudu County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, said that the factory profit is very thin, shipping about 500,000 pieces of clothes a year, "everyone mainly relies on running volume, no amount can not make money, the profit of a piece of goods is less than a dollar."
According to the Data Bureau of Statistics, in the first half of the year, 33,000 textile enterprises above designated size in the country achieved a cumulative operating income of 2,343.49 billion yuan, a total profit of 107.89 billion yuan, and a revenue profit margin of 4.6%.
Liu Long said that because of the price increase of raw materials and freight, the company has received orders and refunded orders again and again, and although customers can still understand, they will also think that the company is not honest enough. He is worried that after the epidemic has passed, if customers can find other sources of goods, business will not be so good. He also revealed that from 2020, the size of the enterprise is already shrinking, and the number of workers is one-third less.
Under the "power rationing tide", the orders of diesel generator manufacturers are full
Affected by multiple factors such as tight power supply and dual control of energy consumption, the phenomenon of "pulling the gate and curtailing electricity" has occurred in many places across the country. In order to grab production, some companies have chosen to snap up diesel generators to ensure power supply.
"Almost after the power ration occurred, orders began to increase. Guangdong, Jiangsu including Zhejiang and other provinces, have received orders, the current order is about 200 units, some have not been picked up, too much. The staff of the above-mentioned generator production enterprises in Yangzhou told reporters.
"Usually the delivery is normal for about a week, but now it takes almost 20 days." The sales manager of a generator production enterprise in Taizhou told reporters, "No matter which one is the goods, it is relatively lacking, because there are only so many engines with brands." ”
"The generator set is more for emergency, for example, the company came to a big order, in order to be able to deliver on time without default." But if you have been using generators to generate electricity, in terms of cost, it is still relatively high, after all, the price of electricity is relatively cheap. Some practitioners in the internal combustion engine industry revealed in an interview with reporters.
A number of interviewed enterprises said that the company has increased its investment in research and development and innovation, promoted innovation in all aspects of raw materials, technologies, products and markets, and strived to increase the competitiveness of the industrial chain supply chain while striving to increase the competitiveness of the industrial chain supply chain while the supply chain is independent and controllable
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