If you are a factory customer or work on the used-clothes recycling industry, you’ll find that in China, especially in the costal south, the price of raw used-clothes materials is rising. The price of summer clothes raw materials is even up to 3000 RMB/ton. What are the reasons leading to the price rising?

First, abroad, the African market starts to revive and the foreign order begins to increase. As we know, now lots of factories’ orders are booked up. In some areas, there’s even a shortage in raw materials. Recently, we also got phone calls from customers. They asked whether there were goods suppliers for used clothes or shoes. In order to get enough supply of goods, some factories even mix new inventory with used shoes. These days, we visited some factory customers. Many of them said that as long as there were raw materials, they would take them all.

Second, it’s the peak season. Since April, used-clothes market abroad has walked into the peak season. The market demand is large and it exceeds the supply. After the market remained inactive for the last 2 years, the increasing amount of market demand is obvious. We have reasons to believe that in the near future, the market demand abroad will keep increasing because the global currency is getting stable.

Third, the man-powered cost increases. With the development of salary level and life quality at home, the cost for the collectors to get raw materials increases. It promotes the general price rising of raw materials.

Fourth, it’s time for the season change. The spring has just gone, and the summer hasn’t begun. It’s the right time for the season change. Lots of summer clothes of last year hasn’t been weeded out. It results in the serious shortage of the popular goods and make the market price high.