Among the top 10 countries/regions of textile export during the first six months of this year, exports to France registered the highest growth of 548 per cent to $2.863 billion. Exports to Germany were up 290 per cent to $4.261 billion, while that to Canada were up 155 per cent to $1.5 billion. These were followed by the UK with growth of 132 per cent to $2.181 billion, and Japan with growth of 104 per cent to $4.430 billion, the data showed.

Among the top 10 countries/regions of apparel export during the period under review, exports to Russia saw significant drop of 34 per cent to $1.685 billion. Exports to the US were down 30 per cent to $10.610 billion, France down 18 per cent to $1.326 billion, Germany down 14.6 per cent to $2.148 billion, the Netherlands down 14.5 per cent to $1.263 million, and Japan down 11.8 per cent to $6.081 billion.

Thus, a clear trend of advanced nations increasing their textile import from China, while cutting down on their apparel import was seen during the first six months of this year.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (RKS)