The imports of textiles and clothing by South Korea crossed the US$ 14 billion mark last year, narrowing the industry’s surplus further. In 2014, South Korea’s textile and clothing exports grew by 8.4 per cent year-on-year ...
Tags: Textile, Clothing Imports
Total apparel imports by the United States stood at $81.780 billion in 2014, showing an increase of 2.49 per cent over imports of $79.797 billion made in 2013, according to the latest Major Shippers Report, released by the US Department of ...
Tags: Apparel Imports, Apparel
The competitiveness of the Chinese clothing industry is set to weaken over the next few years as costs rise. As a result, export growth could falter. Rising costs in China are already forcing an increasing number of Western apparel brands ...
Textile and clothing exports from Spain amounted to €1.07 billion in February 2014, registering a rise of 10.4 percent, compared to the same month last year, as per the data released by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and ...
The imports of textiles and apparel by the United States were worth US$ 96.981 billion during January to November 2013, registering an increase of 3.7 percent over $ 93.518 billion imports made during the corresponding period of 2012, ...
Tags: Textile, Apparel Imports
The exports of garments from the island nation of Sri Lanka to its major export destinations of the EU and the US recorded a remarkable growth of 30.7 percent year-on-year and 32.2 percent year-on-year, respectively, in September 2013, ...
Tags: Garment Exports, apparel
The exports of textiles and apparel from Portugal grew by more than 7 percent in September 2013, which took the total growth in the first nine months of 2013 to 2.4 percent, amounting to €3.2 billion, according to a statement from the ...
China has become the leading supplier of clothing to the Latin American country of Mexico, as the country imported apparel worth US$ 290 million during the first half of 2013, which is an increase of 69 percent compared to the same period ...
Brazil has imported more than US$ 5 billion worth of textiles between the period of January and September, 2013, as per the estimates of Brazilian Association of Textile and Apparel (ABIT). According to a statement issued by ABIT, the ...
Tags: Textiles, garment sector
Massive opportunities are about to open up for Pakistan to at least double its share in the global textile and clothing trade of $800 billion, from slightly above 1.5 per cent to three per cent over the next two to three years. But, ...
Tags: Clothing Trade, Textile Export
Peru’s National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Intellectual Property Protection (INDECOPI) has reiterated that it is conducting investigation on Chinese clothing imports and US cotton imports under the framework of the ...
Tags: Apparel, Chinese apparel
The Export Price Index (IPRIX) of Spanish textile industry showed an increase of 0.6 percent year-on-year in May 2013, according to the data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE). The 0.6 percent increase in May is the ...
Tags: Textile Export, Price Index
The Chinese market represents a high potential market for premium clothing made in Mexico, because the Chinese consumers with high purchasing power now prefer American and European brands. The growing middle and upper classes in China ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
The imports of textiles and apparels by Brazil grew by 25.4 percent year-on-year in value and 17.3 percent year-on-year in volume, amounting to 104,800 tons in April 2013, according to the latest data. In the clothing sub-sector, ...
Textile and garment imports by Spain grew by 3.1 percent to €3.428 billion in the first three months of the current year, compared to imports worth €3.324 billion during the corresponding period of last year, according to the data ...