Spanish yarn exports touch €34.98mn in Jan'14: ICEX

According to the January 2014 Yarn Foreign Trade report of ICEX, Spanish exports of yarn totaled €34.98 million during January 2014, whereas the imports of yarn amounted to €48.81 million during the same month.

Imports of yarn by Spain during the month of January recorded a surge of 23.2 percent compared to the same month last year.

According to the ICEX data, Germany was the main destination for exports of yarn from Spain during the month of January, with exports totaling €6.64 million, followed by Italy with €5.57 million, France with €4.13 million, Portugal with €3.72 million and the UK with €2.79 million.

The highest exports of yarn were made from the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia with exports totaling €24.70 million during the month of January 2014, followed by Aragon with €4.67 million, Valencia with €4.60 million and Basque Country with €286,012.

Meanwhile, textile and clothing exports from Spain amounted to €976.4 million in January 2014, registering a rise of 8.3 percent, compared to the same month last year, as per the data released by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

Fibre2fashion News Desk - India