Clothesource Sourcing Intelligence

You can subscribe to Clothesource Sourcing Intelligence in two ways

Subscribe to The Source 

As well as getting the world's most wide-ranging review of sourciong matters each month, a subscription to The Source also entitles you to:

- Search its archives, going back to 2002, and

- Have access to our basic version of Sourcing Intelligence: thumbnail summaries, updated annually, of the key sourcing issues and data for 92 apparel exporting countries and the 35 key product categories

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Subscribe to The Clothesource Sourcing Kit

The Clothesource Sourcing Kit is the most advanced information source of its kind, providing apparel buyers and manufacturers with in depth information about every manufacturing country in the world, and covering product categories.

It allows users to get instant pictures of the key sourcing trends in each category: market shares by country, major supplying countries’ share and pricing history, details of fastest growing and lowest prices, and data on protectionist measures in the category by the EU or US

Category profiles give, for each country and category combination:
- Yearly exports, in number of pieces to Japan, to US, to EU-15 and to the sum of these (JUSEU)
- Average price charged, separately, to EU and US for the most widely traded version of each - category, and therefore
- Annual weighted average price movement

And, for of the 92 countries specifically covered:

Econometric/Demographic data

For each country:

- GDP/head, Annual GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, commercial interest rates

Trade Environment:

For each country:
- Commentary on apparel trade
- Trade preference agreement status with EU and US

For each country/category combination:
- Yearly exports, in number of pieces to Japan, to US, to EU-15 and to the sum of these (JUSEU)
- Average price charged, to EU and US for the most widely traded version of each category, and therefore
- Annual weighted average price movement

The information is available in two formats: in numerical tables, and in interactive charts. You can choose whichever format you find easiest to work with.

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