Tag Archives: Apparel exports

Garment exports to non-traditional markets rose 3.77 percent year-on-year to $2.56 billion in the July-January period of the current fiscal year thanks to preferential trade benefit and fiscal incentive.

With India's apparel exports further declining by 10.25 per cent during the month of February 2018 against the corresponding month of February 2017, industry body Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) has raised concerns over the downward trend.

Though President Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum and trading partners have alluded to retaliation on items like Levi’s jeans, textile and apparel imports to the U.S. are on the upswing for, increasing 2.6% to 5.61 billion square meter equivalents (SME) in January over a year earlier.

If the 10-month data from April 2017 to January 2018 is anything to go by, India's apparel industry may post a rare decline in exports for the current fiscal 2017-18, let alone meeting the $20 billion target.

After nearly seven years in the economic doldrums, Egypt is keen to bolster its clothing exports, worth some $1.4bn a year, and employ over one million Egyptians.

Major countries, which are member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), have become key markets for Vietnam’s garment and textile products, and are forecast to making up between 74%-75% of the country’s total apparel export turnover in the near future.