Introduction: Viscose fiber has a long history. From the initial global development driven by the United States, northwest Europe and other countries, it has transitioned to the development of viscose led by China. Currently, as China’s viscose fiber enters a mature stage, the market’s dependence on imports has increased. Gradually declining, but since Indonesia has developed into the world’s second largest producer of viscose staple fiber, China’s share of viscose staple fiber imported from Indonesia has begun to increase, and the proportion of viscose staple fiber imported from Indonesia is expected to maintain growth in 2020 situation.
Viscose staple fiber imports are stable , reduced dependence
China is currently the world’s largest producer of viscose staple fiber. From 2015 to 2019, the import dependence of viscose staple fiber has declined year by year, from 5% in 2015 to 3.4 in 2019. %. However, the import volume of viscose staple fiber has remained relatively stable. During 2015-2019, the annual import volume of viscose staple fiber remained above 100,000 tons.
Imports from Indonesia are increasing year by year
In terms of importing countries of viscose staple fiber (55041029), Austria ranks first, but China’s imports of viscose staple fiber from Indonesia have increased significantly since 2019, an increase of 348% compared with 2017. The main reason Since the APR was put into production in December 2018, Indonesia has become the second largest viscose staple fiber producer in the world, with an annual production capacity of 840,000 tons. Subsequently, with the new SPV line put into production in Indonesia in June, Indonesia’s non-woven fiber is expected to Production capacity will also grow.
Unit of China’s imports from major countries in 2017-2019: tons
The proportion of imports from Indonesia is still expected to increase in 2020
Based on the import data from January to March 2020, China’s total imports of viscose staple fiber (55041029) The volume was 12,100 tons, down 43.7% year-on-year. The main source countries are still Austria, Indonesia, Thailand, and India, accounting for 67%, 15%, 10%, and 4% respectively.
Unit of change in the proportion of China’s imports from Indonesia from 2017 to 2019: tons
Although the proportion of Indonesian imports fell from January to March 2020, compared with the import proportion of 3.06% from January to March 2019, the proportion of imports from Indonesia still increased by 11.57 percentage points year-on-year, and compared with the same period last year It can be seen that the viscose staple fiber imported from Indonesia has gradually increased since April, reached a staged high level in June and then gradually declined, and has increased again since November.
The main basis for judging the growth of Indonesian exports to China comes from the fact that its main partner country for textiles and raw materials is the United States ( See Table 3). As we all know, the United States has reduced its demand for textiles from various countries due to the impact of the epidemic. However, Indonesia’s viscose staple fiber and series of textiles have also been trapped in exports despite relatively stable production. At present, China’s epidemic control is effective, and Indonesia is in order to To ease the pressure or moderately increase the export of some products to China, it is currently recommended to pay attention to the changes in viscose staple fiber imports from Indonesia from April to June.
Country share of Indonesia’s exports of textile-grade raw materials in 2019 Unit: million US dollars
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