La Industria Textil En Mexico

The crisis of the Mexican textile industry and its challenges

Damage to the Mexican textile industry is not only caused by textile goods from China, Vietnam or Bangladesh.

The textile industry of great importance for the country's economy mainly for being creative source of jobs because it is intensive in labor, but unfortunately the pay and conditions of workers in this industry in most cases are very poor.

The role of the Mexican textile industry is of great importance both domestically and in the US. Your financial contribution to various entities located country as a dynamic and relevant production. In the nineties of the last century, the textile industry was favored by trade liberalization and tariff advantages advantage, especially the Free Trade Agreement with North America (NAFTA). Since 2000, the industry faced increasing competition from countries like China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, among others. However, in recent years, the Mexican textile industry has faced a crisis resulting in lower production, employment and sales, along with a continued loss of competitiveness.

According to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), the Mexican textile industry as a whole recorded in 2013 a value of sales of manufactured products by 89, 448 million pesos, up 2.38 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), manufacturing, and earned income from the maquila for 23, 163 million pesos and gives direct and formal employment to 425 people and it is estimated that more than 300,000 workers are employed in this industry in the informal economy.

President of the National Chamber of Textile Industry (Canaintex), Moises Kalach R. Bales, recently stated that the textile and clothing industry recorded a decrease in the first months of this year that barely allow this industry between 1 percent and 2 percent in 2014, which will drop if you consider the increased 2.9 percent in 2013.

The president of industrial textiles believes that one of the main problems facing the industry is that it has not succeeded in stopping the entry of goods China sub - valued and still no definition of the path that will take the complaint to be filed before the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Kalach also stated that exports of textile industry last year amounted to 6,200 billion and imports were around 20 billion dollars, mostly from China, which often enter below its real value.

The Mexican textile industry is composed of three sub-sectors of textile manufacturing inputs and finishes that contribute 47.94 percent of sales, manufacturing of clothing contributes 40.97 percent, while the manufacture of textiles, except apparel Dress pays the remaining 11.09 percent of sales. The March 3 sub reduced productivity in recent years.

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