POLYESTER FIBRES MARKETS IN CHINA

摘要

In 1980, polyester textile filament and staple fibre between them comprised not quite 10% of overall textile mill consumption in China, cotton having an estimated 76% and the various manmade cellulosic fibres about 5%. In terms of final consumer demand, where individual manmade fibres (MMF) cannot be identified because the trade data for garments and textiles lacks such detail, cotton had just over 70% of the Chinese market; suggesting that cotton's share in exported merchandise was somewhat greaterthan within China itself. By 1990, polyester's share of mill activity had more than doubled, while cotton's had slipped back to 62%, although its volume had grown from 3.4 to 4.4 million tons; noting that cotton can sometimes lose market share while increasing volume - at least if overall demand is growing, which, of course, is not always the case.