Muito chinfrim, muita polémica, muita demagogia, muita gritaria... poucos factos, menos seriedade.

A 31 de Dezembro de 2004 acabou o sistema de quotas que geria o comércio mundial de têxteis (ver aqui: "futuro dos têxteis após 2005").
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"Apenas 5 meses depois o panorama era este "O governo de Pequim acusou a União Européia de protecionismo na questão dos têxteis. Em resposta ao convite do bloco europeu para negociar com a China a contenção das exportações de produtos têxteis e fio de linho para a União Européia, o ministério chinês do Comércio assinalou que "a China está muito insatisfeita com o pedido".
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Segundo informações do bloco, as importações de têxteis chineses aumentaram 187% no primeiro trimestre deste ano em relação ao ano passado." (ver aqui: "Acirra-se crise têxtil entre UE e China")
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Lembro-me deste tema ser tratado nos media. Lembro-me dos comentários inflamados de políticos a clamarem contra o sucedido.
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"From January to May of 2005, according to OTEXA data, US cotton T-shirt imports from China increased by a colossal 1532% over the same period in 2004 - from 830530 dozen to 13559000 dozen. During the same period, imports of cotton trousers from China increased by a mind-boggling 1608% - from 723000 dozen to 12353000 dozen.
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Something had to be done.
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However, the closer we look at these events the less they make sense. First of all, what kind of factory is able to increase production fifteen-fold in five months?
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In 2006, exports of the strategic products literally collapsed as customers shunned made-in-China cotton T-shirts and cotton trousers."
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Repare-se só nesta cena macaca:
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"By the year 2000, a separate Hong Kong or Macau garment industry simply no longer existed. The companies may have been headquartered in Hong Kong and Macau, but the machines were just about all China.
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Unfortunately, this reality was not incorporated in the data. For the purpose of international trade. Hong Kong and Macau continued to be counted as separate entities. Consequently, international institutions and trading partners listed made-in-Hong Kong and made-in-Macau garments as different from made.in-China germents. This was complete fiction.
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Prior to quota phase-out, China's quota for the major garment export categories such as cotton T-shirts and cotton trousers was tiny compared with its enoumous production capacity. At the same time, Hong Kong's and, to a lesser degree, Macau's quotas for these same categories were enormous compared to their tiny production capacity.
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The solution for everybody involved was obvious: use Hong Kong and Macau quota to ship made-in-China garments. A new and profitable industry of T-shirt and troser smuggling was invented and made-in-China garments wew "submarined" out to Hong Kong and Macau. This allowed China to export garments above their quota limits, while simultaneously allowing Hong Kong and Macau to fully utilize their own quotas, which were far larger than their production capacity."
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Com o fim das quotas, a produção chinesa deixou de ser vendida como made-in-Hong Kong ou made-in-Macau e apareceu tudo como made-in-China!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Media e políticos........ alguém explicou isto?
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Muito chinfrim, muita polémica, muita demagogia, muita gritaria... poucos factos, menos seriedade.
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Trechos retirados do fabuloso livro de David Birnbaum "Crisis in the 21st Century Garment Industry and Breakthrough Unified Strategies".