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Australia's home textiles imports from Asia-Pacific fell in 2022

20 Mar '23
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  • Australia's home textile imports from the Asia-Pacific region fell to $1.51 billion in 2022 from $2.84 billion in 2018. Despite the decline, the Asia-Pacific region remains the major supplier of home textiles to Australia. The COVID-related lockdowns led to an increase in home textile imports in 2020, but the trend did not continue in the following years.
The value of Australia’s home textiles imports from the Asia-Pacific region slipped further in 2022. After a rise during the COVID year of 2022, the imports had declined in 2021. However, the Asia-Pacific region continues to remain as the major supplier of home textiles, ahead of Europe and Africa.

Australia’s home textiles imports from Asia-Pacific topped to $2,837.785 million in 2018. Subsequently, it fell to $2,082.851 million in the next year 2019. However, the shipment bounced back to $2,107.311 million in 2020 as consumers increased buying of home furnishing items during COVID-related lockdowns. The next year 2021 saw imports down to $1,611.137 million. The value has further fallen to $1,510.128 million in 2022, according to Fibre2Fashion’s market insight tool TexPro.

Australia’s home textiles imports from Europe were $91.169 million in 2017, which increased to $104.310 million in 2018. But it came down to $91.619 million in 2019. The inbound shipment increased to $94.512 million in 2020. It further jumped to $118.407 million in 2021. However, it decreased to $94.931 million during 2022, as per TexPro.

The import from Africa was recorded at $19.478 million in 2017, which was the highest in last six years. It eased down to $11.029 million in 2018. But the import increased to $13.865 million in 2019 and again to $14.944 million in 2020. However, the shipment slipped to $13.003 million in 2021 and $12.745 million in 2022.

ALCHEMPro News Desk (KUL)

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