South Africa Adopts Trade Protection Measures &Nbsp; Chinese Clothing Enterprises Are Affected.

Chinese businessman Liu recently wants to open a shop in a famous shopping center in Johannesburg.

Another Chinese Zhang wanted to open a clothing store in a small shopping center. There were only a dozen shops in the shopping center, but the popularity was very strong.

Because the surrounding residents are more, every day the car comes to the car, so the rent is not cheap. It needs 15 thousand Rand a month.

The shopping center originally had only one large, one small, two clothing stores. Other shops sold cakes, some sold cigarettes and wine, some barber shops, and Woolworth, Pick 'nPay and other large chain retailers.

Mr. Zhang thinks his application should have no problems, but he is refused by the management.

The reason is that shopping malls need to maintain diversity of business types.

The management believes that because of limited space, only accommodating as many business items as possible can provide convenience for the residents nearby to the greatest extent, which is a win-win choice for shopping malls, businesses and consumers.

Finally, Mr. Zhang's shop was sold by Sunglasses merchants.

In fact, many large shopping centers in South Africa will adopt a similar form of protectionism, for example, when a considerable number of merchants operate a certain type of goods, they will no longer accept similar businesses in shopping malls.

A shopping mall simply does not accept Chinese applications to prevent cheap goods from lowering the overall price and hurting the interests of other merchants.

Although many Chinese are dissatisfied with such regulations, they also admit that there is some truth in the position of the management of shopping malls.

Many South African netizens are talking about cheap imports, especially Chinese made garments and textiles.

Some people think that cheap imported clothing is a big blessing for the low-income group. "If I can buy a dress with 80 Rand, why do I have to throw 200 Rand to buy domestic goods?" some netizens said that Chinese workers worked hard and paid no reward, while South African workers were protected by the minimum wage standards of the government and trade unions, and the cost of products was naturally higher.

The main objection is noise.

It can be said that the fundamental social problems in South Africa, such as unemployment, can not be solved, and the government is bound to introduce a series of relevant measures to deal with it. Under the trend of globalization, protectionism has been widely condemned for its shortsightedness, but it can be regarded as a good remedy for a country's economic downturn. Earlier this year, when the ministers of various government departments in South Africa met in Cape Town, they urged the South African International Trade Executive Committee to step up protectionist measures so as to increase the form of tariffs in a targeted manner and protect some of the vulnerable industries in a precarious position in the surging tide of importers.