Global procurement centers to China furniture transfer

In the past 5 years, the rapid development of China's furniture exports, the annual growth rate of more than 30%. Furniture needs of the world's major powers have furniture imported from China. According to European statistics, in 2000 China's furniture exports to the United States up to four billion U.S. dollars; Japanese furniture imports from China 750 million U.S. dollars, accounting for Japanese demand for furniture, 15% of the total; German furniture imports from China 150 million U.S. dollars; France 1. 0.5 billion U.S. dollars; 280 million U.S. dollars the United Kingdom, China is the United Kingdom's second largest furniture importing country (second only to Italy).

Vice-chairman of the China Furniture Association, said Feng Yongming, the global number one in sales of furniture Swedish furniture company IKEA has been sourcing from Singapore to China, in China, Harbin, Qingdao, Guangzhou, Yunnan and Shanghai to set up purchasing centers 5 . For example: Qingdao procurement base, there are 300 containers per month furniture exports to the world. A sofa factory in Shanghai every year for the "IKEA" Production Value 1 billion yuan in the sofa. Following the light in May this year with the largest U.S. importers of solid wood furniture in large quantities has signed export contracts of solid wood furniture, the Group also has a bright wood BDL and the United States signed a 140 container export contracts, exports last year 2.8 times over the same period, marking a bright kitchen furniture group began large quantities into the U.S. market. Dongguan is an important Chinese furniture production base, more than the existing furniture business in 2000, annual production value of more than 10 billion yuan. The United States have a Permanent Mission furniture in Dongguan procurement, procurement of 500 containers per month of the furniture, sales returned to the United States.

Global procurement centers to China's furniture is mainly due to transfer: First, the world of furniture manufacturing in China began to shift; Second, China's furniture manufacturing capacity; c, products, style, design closely follow the trend of world furniture. It is estimated that the volume of trade between the world's furniture will reach 60 billion U.S. dollars. China's furniture export growth based on trends, within the next few years, China's furniture exports will reach seven billion U.S. dollars to 75 billion U.S. dollars, the furniture of the world's total trade of around 12%.