South Africa's apparel imports from Bangladesh to rise this year

01 Dec '22

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South Africa’s apparel imports from Bangladesh are set to breach last year’s figures as they have already touched $91.724 million in the first three quarters of this year. The imports amounted to $105.578 million last year. Bangladesh’s share in South Africa’s total apparel imports was merely 6.26 per cent during January to September this year.

South Africa’s garment imports from Bangladesh amounted to $73.682 million in 2020, $91.784 million in 2019, $87.979 million in 2018 and $65.345 million in 2017, according to Fibre2Fashion’s market insight tool TexPro.

As for the quarterly imports of South Africa from Bangladesh, they were at $31.623 million in Q3 2022, $27.263 million in Q2 2022 and $32.838 million in Q1 2022. The imports were recorded at $26.502 million in Q4 2021, $27.053 million in Q3 2021 and $25.472 million in Q2 2021.

Imports of trousers and shorts were at $29.339 million, constituting 32.67 per cent of the total apparel imports during January-September 2022. The imports of jerseys stood at $21.732 million (24.20 per cent), T-shirts at $14.391 million (16.03 per cent), shirts at $9.275 million (10.33 per cent) and jackets and blazers at $3.541 million (3.94 per cent). Bangladesh was one of the top five apparel suppliers to South Africa, as per TexPro.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (KUL)

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