Country profiles

The best sources for understanding apparel exporting countries and their competitiveness are:

The Clothesource Souring Kit. Click for a copy of Sourcing Kit Brochure

The Clothesource Guide to Trade Rules

The Source. Click here for a sample copy of Source Jun 08

Free Country Profiles

You can download one of our free Country Thumbnails. Updated to June 2008, they are currently available for over 60 supplier countries. This is a list of thumbnails now available, and the share each of these countries had of world apparel manufacture:

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World market share
 

 

 
H1 08
H1 07
Albania0.2%0.2%
Bangladesh8.0%8.8%
Bosnia0.1%0.1%
Bulgaria0.5%0.5%
Burma0.1%0.1%
Cambodia2.0%1.8%
China35.6%35.7%
Colombia0.2%0.3%
Costa Rica0.9%1.0%
Croatia0.2%0.2%
Czech0.2%0.2%
Dom Rep1.1%1.2%
Egypt0.8%0.7%
El Sal2.6%2.5%
Guatemala1.0%1.0%
Haiti0.8%0.8%
Honduras4.7%4.3%
Hong Kong0.9%1.5%
Hungary0.2%0.3%
India4.5%4.4%
Indonesia3.1%3.3%
Israel0.2%0.2%
Jordan0.5%0.6%
Kenya0.2%0.1%
Laos0.1%0.1%
Latvia0.0%0.0%
Lesotho0.2%0.2%
Lithuania0.1%0.1%
Macao0.5%0.7%
Macedonia0.2%0.2%
Madagascar0.2%0.2%
Malaysia0.7%0.7%
Mauritius0.3%0.3%
Mexico2.6%2.8%
Moldova0.0%0.1%
Morocco0.9%1.0%
Nicaragua1.0%0.9%
Pakistan3.0%3.0%
Peru0.3%0.4%
Philippines0.8%1.0%
Poland0.4%0.4%
Romania0.8%0.9%
Serbia0.8%0.6%
Singapore0.1%0.1%
Slovakia0.4%0.4%
South Korea1.1%1.2%
Sri Lanka1.8%1.7%
Swaziland0.1%0.1%
Syria0.1%0.1%
Taiwan0.7%0.7%
Thailand1.8%1.6%
Tunisia0.8%0.9%
Turkey5.0%6.3%
UAE0.1%0.2%
Ukraine0.1%0.1%
Uzbekistan

 0.0%

 0.0%

Vietnam3.5%3.2%