The UK's imports of baby wear from India rose by 11.19 per cent from $48.223 million during the same period in 2022. However, imports had previously decreased by 21.71 per cent to $52.791 million in the same timeframe in 2020. This was followed by a further reduction of 5.87 per cent to $49.694 million in the same period of 2021 and a drop of 2.96 per cent to $48.223 million in 2022, as per trade data obtained from Fibre2Fashion’s market insight tool TexPro.
When examining the top five sourcing countries, imports from China stood at $37.270 million, accounting for 18.80 per cent of the total. Shipments from Bangladesh totalled $34.112 million (17.21 per cent), Sri Lanka's imports were worth $31.355 million (15.82 per cent), and those from Turkiye amounted to $10.956 million (5.53 per cent).
As per TexPro, Imports from other countries included Portugal at $5.041 million (2.54 per cent), Ireland at $3.081 million (1.55 per cent), Cambodia at $2.887 million (1.46 per cent), Spain at $2.440 million (1.23 per cent), and Vietnam at $2.431 million (1.23 per cent).
ALCHEMPro News Desk (KUL)
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