MMF garments dominate 46% of UK's apparel imports from Cambodia

An analysis of trade data obtained from Fibre2Fashion's market insight tool TexPro revealed that cotton apparel imports from Cambodia were valued at $327.995 million in the first eleven months of the last year. The rest of the imported garments from Cambodia were made of materials other than MMF and cotton fibre.

The garments made from other types of materials which were imported from Cambodia were valued at $118.531 million (13.54 per cent share). Additionally, garments of wool/animal hair valued at $25.586 million (2.92 per cent), and silk valued at $125,583 (0.01 per cent) were imported by the UK from Cambodia.

During 2022, the UK imported apparel worth $1,038.978 million from Cambodia. Out of this, MMF based garments were valued at $449.877 million, which accounted for 43.30 per cent of the total. Cotton garments were valued at $418.867 million (40.32 per cent), garments made of other materials were valued at $140.690 million (13.54 per cent), wool/animal hair at $29.479 million (2.84 per cent), and silk at $63,058 (0.01 per cent), as per TexPro.

ALCHEMPro News Desk (KUL)