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Canada top market with 33.8% share in US' apparel exports

20 Nov '23
2 min read
Pic: Adobe Stock
Pic: Adobe Stock

Insights

  • Canada continues to remain the top market for US apparel exports, with a 33.8 per cent share ($1,331.98 million) of the total $3,940.27 million in January-August 2023.
  • This marks a slight decrease from 2022.
  • Trousers & shorts led the export categories to Canada, followed by jerseys, T-shirts, shirts, and dresses during the eight-month period.
Canada continued to be the top market for United States’ apparel exports during the first eight months of current year. US exported apparel worth $1,331.977 million to Canada, which was 33.80 per cent of its total shipment of $3,940.274 million during the same period. Mexico, China, Nicaragua, Japan and Italy were other top markets for the US apparel.

According to Fibre2Fashion’s market insight tool TexPro, the outbound shipment to Canada was slightly lower than the exports of $1,344.708 million during January-August 2022. The trade had witnessed a rise of 27.06 per cent during the corresponding period of last year over January-August 2021 when the trade was noted at $1,058.344 million. Earlier, US’ apparel exports were valued at $844.172 million in January-August 2020 and $1262.266 million in January-August 2019.

Annually, apparel shipment from the US to Canada was recorded at $2,108.501 million during 2022, which was 22.97 per cent drop from $1,714.693 million in 2021. US had exported apparel worth $1,522.247 million in 2020 and $1,891.961 million in 2019.

An analysis of product basket shows that trousers & shorts was most dominant garment category accounting for 22.82 per cent out of total apparel export from US to Canada during January-August 2023. It was valued at $290.237 million during the period under review. Among the top five products, the share of jerseys was 13.37 per cent, T-shirts 11.62 per cent, shirts 9.74 per cent and dresses 6.61 per cent in the US’ total apparel shipment to Canada, as per TexPro.

ALCHEMPro News Desk (KUL)

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