Silk Import Statistics

Review of Silk Exports & Imports TABLE - IV: COUNTRYWISE IMPORTS OF RAW SILK (Value: Crore Rs./Mn. US$) COUNTRY April To December 2009-2010 2008-2009 Qty. (Tons) VALUE Qty. (Tons) VALUE  Rs. US $  Rs. US $ China P R 5759 712.83 148.66 6295 677.09 151.37

Silk Export Statistics

Review of Silk Exports & Imports
TABLE - II - COUNTRYWISE SILK EXPORT EARNINGS
April - December (Value: Crore Rs./Mn. US$)
Country +	2009-2010		2008-2009		Country Share
	Rs.	US$	Rs.	US$	2009-2010	2008-2009
U.S.A.	313.22	65.32	412.31	92.18	14.75	17.3
HONG KONG	279.30	58.25	285.94	63.93	13.15	12

Denim Jeans Exports to USA

Country	Million Pcs	Percentage Share
Mexico	97.71	35.66
Bangladesh	24.04	8.77
Pakistan	15.02	5.48
Honduras	14.35	5.23
China	13.32	4.86
Egypt	12.79	4.66
Cambodia	11.88	4.33
Costa Rica	11.79	4.30
Lesotho	9.90	3.61
Hongkong	6.54	2.38
Nicaragua	6.31	2.30
Guatemala	5.47	1.99
India	1.84	0.67
Jordan	1.57	0.57

Total Imports of Mens Jeans in 2007:: 273.93 million pcs
Source:US Customs

Garment exports to reach $13.2b this year

HA NOI — Total garment export turnover was estimated to reach US$6.16 billion in the first half of this year, up 30 per cent against the same period last year, the highest growth rate in the past five years, said deputy general director of the Viet Nam National Garment and Textile Group (Vinatex) Le Tien Truong at a press conference yesterday in Ha Noi.

In June alone, apparel exports topped $1.15 billion, a month-on-month increase of 11 per cent, Truong said.

These encouraging results came despite the fact that domestic garment enterprises had to cope with several challenges including rising electricity prices that resulted in increased production costs, high lending interest rates and fluctuations in the global price of cotton, he said, adding that the US, EU and Japan remained the largest importers of Vietnamese garments.

Textile exports rise to record $12.48bn

KARACHI: The textile exports surged by 34.20 percent to a record level of $12.488 billion during July-May 2010/11 against $9.305 billion during the corresponding period last year, the Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) revealed on Tuesday.

The total exports of textile products stood at $10.244 billion in FY10, which was increased from $9.572 billion a year ago, according to the FBS.

Analysts have attributed the significant rise in textile exports in the current fiscal year to higher commodities prices in the international market.

“Cotton prices were at record high during the year, which helped Pakistan fetch better prices against its exports,” said Khurram Shahzad, Head of Research at InvestCap.

The analysts said that the exports were increased in only value terms because of high cotton and finished goods prices due to shortage in the international market.

During the fiscal year, the cotton producing countries faced serious problems such as floods in Brazil and export ban on cotton yarn by India.

Experts said that the current pace of textile exports depends on the global cotton estimates for the next year.

The flash floods early this fiscal year also lowered the cotton output estimates for the current fiscal year from 14 million bales to 11.7 million bales, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said in a recently issued report.

Despite fall in the cotton output in the country, the raw materials exports went up by 68 percent to $326.78 million from $194.43 million. However, this export is mainly due to higher prices in the international market because the exported quantity fell by 17.08 percent.

The analysts also attributed the rise in exports to higher demand for Pakistan’s finished and semi-finished products in the European Union (EU) and the United States economies after facing recession period during the last two years.

Textile exports shared around 55.72 percent in the country’s total exports of $22.411 billion during July-May 2010/11.

The central bank in its report said that the current trend of textile exports would help the country have record exports in FY11.

The major components that helped the textile exports to grow significantly included cotton yarn, cotton cloth, knitwear, bedwear and readymade garments.

India: Apparel exports up by 1.66% in February

Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC), the apex body of apparel exporters in India has compiled data which reflected that apparel exports increases by 1.66 percent in February 2011. 

Apparel Imports of US

Apparel imports of the United States witnessed an increase of 22.4 per cent in Jan 2011 from the corresponding period of previous year and amounted to 6.1 billion dollars. For the same period, US imports of apparel from India increased by 22.1 per cent to 302 million dollars against 248 million USD in Jan. 2010. 

US imports from China saw an increase of 20.9 per cent in Jan, 2011 over the corresponding period of last year and all the other major suppliers like Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Mexico also witnessed increase of 19.7 per cent, 16.2 per cent, 53.8 per cent, and 8.3 per cent respectively. Among the top 6 suppliers Bangladesh registered maximum growth from the previous year of same period.

Apparel Imports of EU

EU’s apparel import accounted for 81.8 billion dollars from January to December 2010 with an increase of 2.6 percent over the same period of previous year. India’s export to EU amounted to 5.56 billion dollars with decline of 1.8 percent. 

For the same period minimum decline in EU’S import is registered by Bangladesh (7 percent) followed by Turkey (5.1 percent), China (4.6 percent) while India registered negative growth of 1.8 percent from January to December 2010.

Japan Apparel Industry : Market Overview

Falling steadily since the stock and real estate crash, Japan's apparel consumption began to show signs of recovery around 1996. The consumption tax was hiked up in April 1997, however, and apparel consumption has returned to year-on-year declines.

Pakistan Exports Statistics 2000-2009

PAKISTAN PRINCIPAL EXPORTS
(July-June)
(Value in Million$)
	2008-09	2007-08	2006-07	2005-06	2004-05	2003-04	2002-03	2001-02	2000-01
Commodities	Value	Value	Value	Value	Value	Value	Value	Value	Value
Cotton Fabrics	1955	1933	2026	2108	1863	1711	1345	1132	1032
Made-Ups (Incl. Towels)	1113	1151	1074	1006	986	821	733	621	572
Cotton Yarn	1115	1307	1444	1383	1057	1127	928	1073	942
Bed Ware	1735	1888	1996	2038	1450	1383	1329	919	735
Hosiery	1741	1831	1798	1751	1635	1459	1146	911	841
Ready-Made Garments	1230	1498	1547	1310	1088	993	1092	882	826