Survey Of Industrial Exports: The Second Quarter Garment Manufacturing Industry In Macao Has 2.94 Month Orders On Hand.

According to the questionnaire on the "industrial export situation survey" submitted to the second quarter of July 2012 by the manufacturers interviewed, the average monthly orders for the enterprises surveyed were two point six five months, two point nine eight months worse than the previous ones, but slightly better than the two point five three months recorded in the same period in 2011.

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The manufacturing industry has two point nine four months' orders on hand, and "other industries" have two point four eight months.

In the export market, according to the "comprehensive index of quarterly market orders", the respondents generally agreed that Hongkong, the United States, mainland China and Canada were relatively better performing markets, while the export market in Africa was the worst in the second quarter and the situation was poor.

For the export outlook for the next six months, the surveyed companies with optimistic export prospects dropped from 28.4% in the previous quarter to 15.7% in this quarter (12.7 fewer points). Among them, 2.6% thought that there would be a "substantial increase", and that 13.1% would be "slightly increased".

The weak companies rose from 29.7% in the previous quarter to 43.9% in the current quarter, compared with 26.9% in the same period in 2011. The number of small businesses also increased by 17 percentage points, and 28.3% and 15.6% respectively were considered "slight reduction" and "substantial reduction".

The number of respondents who thought it would "stagnate" dropped slightly from 41.9% in the previous quarter to 40.4%.

The above figures show that manufacturers' confidence in future export prospects has declined.

In terms of labor force employment, the enterprises surveyed said they were engaged in the relevant work.

Employment in the industry decreased by 5% and 15.3% respectively compared with the previous quarter and the same period in 2011.

On the other hand, 54.7% of the respondents said there was a shortage of personnel, the figure slightly higher than the previous quarter 53.5%, but lower than the 65.2% in the same period in 2011. This shows that the number of employees in the manufacturing industry showed a decreasing level, and the demand for personnel remained at 50 or more points. Among them, the "non garment manufacturing" situation was more significant, accounting for 63.3% of the respondents in the industry, slightly lower than the 64.3% in the previous quarter, but higher than that in the same period in 2011.

According to the findings of the survey, 31.8% of the export enterprises consider that the "insufficient order" is the biggest problem they face, while that of the "raw material price" and "field price competition" account for 14.9% and 8%.

In addition, in the second quarter of 2012, export activities were faced with "shortage of staff" and "

There were 65.8% and 65.4% of the respondents to the problem of rising prices respectively, while enterprises experiencing "price competition in the field", "insufficient orders" and "wage rise" were 61.2%, 53.8% and 43.1% respectively.

For the outlook for the next three months, 53.2% of the respondents said that the "raw material price increase" was the main concern of enterprises, followed by the "shortage of personnel" and "insufficient orders" and so on, with a ratio of 46.9% and 36.2% respectively.