Although affected by downward adjustment of export rebates, in the first season of 2007, China’s bedding stuff has seen a promising trend in export sales with the export value up to USD501 million, and an increase of 13.78% compared the same period last year, and an export-average-price increase of 0.45% compared to the same period last year.

Cotton beddings are the most important category of the all, the second is chemical fiber, and however, silk and linen hold a relatively small percentage. All other kinds of beddings have seen various growths except linen.

1. Cotton bedding still holds the largest capacity among all the different export material beddings.
The export of cotton beddings have reached USD 319 million with an increase of 8.74% compared to the same period last year, and occupied the total export decrease from 66.68% to 63.72% compared to the same period last year, mostly due to the fast growth of the chemical fiber beddings from January to March this year. Cotton printing bed sheets have seen the best export trend, increased in both export price and volume. Cotton knitted bedding has slightly decreed 5.7%, however, export price soared up to 56.25%, demonstrating a healthy trend toward high-end.

2. The percentage of the export goods such as chemical fiber beddings has occupied a larger share.
January March 2007 saw a rapid export growth of chemical fiber bedding up to 26.33%. Among the export value, the percentage of the product increased from 30.82% in the same period last year to 34.22%. And the chemical fiber embroidery has been growing the fastest.

3. Silk beddings held relatively small percentage, but still with fast speed up to 51.99%.
Silk beddings held a relatively small percentage in the total bedding export volume.
During January ~March 2007 silk bedding experienced relatively fast growth compared to the same period last year, mainly because export price of silk grew significantly not just in volume but also in unit price. The average price of the silk print beddings has experienced fast increase. Although export value is significantly lowered, the whole trend has not been affected.

4. The negative growth of export in linen bedding does not affect the whole export trend.
The export value of the linen beddings is almost equal to that of last year. However, the export price has led to the decrease of export value due to price falls. In the bedding stuff export products, linen bedding was the only one which experienced drastic negative growth, especially the large percentage of shuttle knitted bedding stuff, mostly due to the price abrupt fall of linen beddings.