Import vinyl flooring from Asia can bring many benefits for flooring importers and flooring wholesalers in United States. The truth is, over 80% of the luxury vinyl flooring are being supplied by Asia, mainly from China, Vietnam, Thailand, South Korea and Taiwan. Among these countries, China has the largest share in exporting luxury vinyl flooring products globally. However, with recent political conditions, major tariff has been added against imported flooring products from China.
With such conditions, many global brands, such as Shaw Industries, Karndean Designflooring USA, Mannington and many more flooring brands are now shifting their supply chain across Asia to reduce the impact of tariff. This dynamic shift of vinyl flooring supply chain disruption has cause major market share to change from China to South East Asia, mainly Vietnam and Thailand.
Why now is considered Best time to import vinyl flooring from Asia?
If you are already importing resilient vinyl flooring products from China, then consideration to import vinyl flooring from Vietnam or Thailand can help to minimize the impact of Tariff against China. The truth is, when the market becomes too competitive and produces are becoming homogeneous, flooring wholesalers has to act to improve its competitiveness in the market. As a mean to improve product service, sourcing and import vinyl flooring directly from Asia can be an easy approach for flooring businesses. By importing directly from flooring manufacturers, you can immediately see a huge improvements in cost of goods. This allows you to have more control over profit margin and prices.
Other Benefits of Importing Flooring Products
- Minimize Tariff Impact for Improved Cost of Goods
- Able to Establish Own Private Label Brands for Better Market Impact
- Wide Selection of Pattern Designs and Colors for Vinyl Floorings
- Get lower prices and cost of products with bulk purchases
- Get Payment Terms that support Flooring Business Expansion
- Have Control over Inventories and Collections
- Allow Flooring Business to Expand with different distribution opportunities
Implications for Flooring Manufacturers in China
Vinyl Flooring Manufacturers in China are now facing export challenges as USA imposed high tariffs against Chinese made goods. This has distinctive impact for suppliers that have major market focused on United States clients, particularly for suppliers that are solely based in China. With such political conditions, Chinese vinyl flooring manufacturers has taken different approaches to diversify the risks.
- Investing and building non-China based production factory
- Developing non-US based clients and reduce US market reliance
- Flooring product innovation and differentiations
- Improving production overheads and costs by improving manufacturing process
Hengdi Floor China : Our Approach to Innovations
As an innovator for next generation resilient vinyl flooring products, Hengdi Floor is dedicated on developing Polypropylene based LVT and SPC product collections. While the tariff against China has a huge impact on our business, we see an environmental mega trend that is in favour to our side.
In the current race for developing PVC-Free resilient flooring, we are more confident with polypropylene polymer composition when compared with PET and even PETG. The distinctive property differences in these polymers indicates polypropylene composition has more potential to be the next resilient flooring products that meet the PVC Free trend.
While many resilient flooring manufacturers are already launching their Polypropylene LVT and Polypropylene SPC, the industry has yet to see a product that live up to the right performance of PP-based LVT and SPC flooring. The majorities of PP-flooring out there in the market only just meet equivalent performance and durability with existing PVC LVT and PVC SPC products. However, polypropylene composition flooring should have significantly higher performance and durability, and the resilient flooring industry is working to improve its current PP-LVT / PP-SPC compositions.
The current breakthrough with Hengdi’s PVC Free Polypropylene Flooring is our retardant performance. While other manufacturers can only meet Bf1 rating just on the plank surface, our current compositions, from wear layer to print layer and core layer, can all meet the Bf1 rating.
