11th November 2020
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Top 20 clothing exporters remain unchanged as world clothing trade falls
The volume of the $255 bn worth of clothing (measured in numbers of garments) imported in 2017 into the key developed countries (Japan, the US and EU – JUSEU) fell 3.1%, according to the 2017 edition of Clothesource Tradetrak.
Though the price received for them by exporters grew 1.3%: essentially the result of a sharp (-4.1% ) fall in the EU, though all three territories saw volume fall faster than price.
But the share held by each of the top 20 clothing exporters remained practically unchanged:
| Share | 2017 | 2016 |
| China | 34.1% | 34.0% |
| Bangladesh | 10.5% | 10.7% |
| Vietnam | 6.7% | 6.1% |
| Turkey | 4.0% | 4.3% |
| India | 3.8% | 3.8% |
| Germany | 3.4% | 3.2% |
| Cambodia | 2.8% | 2.7% |
| Indonesia | 2.8% | 2.9% |
| Pakistan | 2.3% | 2.3% |
| Honduras | 2.1% | 2.0% |
| Sri Lanka | 1.9% | 1.9% |
| Italy | 1.6% | 1.5% |
| El Salvador | 1.4% | 1.4% |
| Spain | 1.3% | 1.3% |
| Nicaragua | 1.2% | 1.1% |
| Mexico | 1.2% | 1.3% |
| Thailand | 1.1% | 1.1% |
| France | 1.0% | 1.1% |
| Poland | 1.0% | 0.9% |
| Haiti | 0.7% | 0.8% |
| Guatemala | 0.7% | 0.7% |
| Morocco | 0.7% | 0.7% |
Three emerging countries showed noticeable growth:
- Burma grew 39% to make it into the top 30
- Ethiopia finally showed some growth, moving from 0.06% of the world market to 0.8%. But at just $39 million worth of clothing, it is at least a billion dollars a year short of the forecasts its government was making at the beginning of the decade.
- Rwanda’s tiny exports grew ninefold to $1.3 million – essentially trousers, tracksuits and jeans. This may be the first shoot of a new initiative – first promised by a Chinese entrepreneuse four years ago. But the likelihood of the 30,000 jobs promised by 2019 seems zero.