The three hour’s drive away from Shanghai Zhuji socks gathered more than 200 enterprises, in order to Datang town as the center of this region produced one-third of the world’s socks.

Datang Town party secretary, said Yuan Zhigang, Datang Hosiery driving over 20 million people in employment, the local average, each household has eight sets socks, the residents per capita net income of 70% directly or indirectly from the hosiery and related industries. Along this region, any one can walk around the streets to find a pair of socks needed to produce anything.

In 2005, the U.S. “Los Angeles Times” reported that Zeng Yi Tang Town as an example, China’s advantage has been far beyond cheap equipment, raw materials and labor, these socks industrial cluster zone is like a one-stop production center, by the supply providers, manufacturers and contractors are concentrated in a park within the realization of economies of scale, and can drive innovation.

However, Yuan Zhigang told Xinhua that local producers in the textile trade friction socks worries started last year. Datang socks increase in export volume this year, a fall in price, the business sector has been on the local anti-dumping warning was issued.

Although only one of the most grass-roots level cadres, Yuan Zhigang Quedui Sino-US trade relations are very concerned about. “(U.S. President) Barack Obama’s visit to China, there is no clear commitment to minimize the use of trade remedy measures.” Yuan Zhigang said, “I do not want Sino-US trade problems, so as not to affect the livelihood of workers.”

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Factory orders assigned to the family business for the trade friction socks had a painful experience. 1999, Datang Group’s plant in Amway products exported from the United States and Europe this year was lifted quota restrictions. In 2006, Amway 30 million pairs of socks export scale, only one million pairs of quotas.

Amway Group, Knitting Factory director Wuwei Yong said that the companies he has 500 workers, is also linked with Datang Local 100 family factories, but because of exports has been limited, inventory can not be timely digestion with these family factories had to suspend partnership.

Statistics Center of China Textile Industry Association data show that the first three quarters this year, Chinese textile and apparel products have received the EU rapid alert system for non-food 153 warning notification date, an increase of 6.29 times. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission of the Chinese textile and apparel products issued a total of 21 since the recall, an increase of 10.53%.

Industry insiders estimate that accommodate a large number of labor force, China’s exports rebound in textile and garment, is likely to be the next to encounter one of the industries of trade friction.

“Family factories and enterprises of this cooperation, to reduce the cost of knitting socks to the limit, the market ups and downs, but the companies do not have to buy so many machines to support so many people, the cost would have fallen down,” Wu Weiyong said, “If the United States really brought anti-dumping, we will justifiably appearance, telling the Americans the secret of cheap Chinese socks. ”

According to statistics, Americans spend an average of socks per person per year on the money up to 78 U.S. dollars, according to the current export of Datang socks 0.3 U.S. dollars per pair basis, every American each year may have to buy 260 pairs of socks.

These data allow these may never have no chance to go to the United States, hosiery workers, greatly surprised, because they want to put on a pair of socks a few years. “In any case, no one will be barefoot on a cold day, so always be those who need inexpensive Chinese socks.