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Trousers & shorts most revenue fetching apparel for China, Bangladesh

22 Jun '22
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Pic: 123rf.com
Pic: 123rf.com

Trousers and shorts are the most important apparel items for the world’s two major apparel exporting countries—Bangladesh and China. Bangladesh earned one-third of its apparel export revenue from these two items during April 2021-March 2022, while they accounted for over 18 per cent of all clothing export earnings for China during the same period.

The analysis based on data from Fibre2Fashion’s market insight tool TexPro revealed that Bangladesh exported apparel worth $39.726 billion during April 2021-March 2022. Trousers and shorts were the most dominant apparel items for its export revenue. The country had exported the items worth $13.404 billion which was 33.74 per cent of the total apparel export earnings during the period under review. Other major apparel export items of Bangladesh were T-shirts (16.69%), jerseys (14.58%), shirts (8.86%), innerwear (5.44%), babywear (3.40%), dresses (2.86%), nightwear (2.11%) and coats (1.60%).

China’s total apparel exports earnings were $160.160 billion during April 2021-March 2022. Trousers and shorts were the most dominant apparel items for export from China. The country had exported trousers and shorts worth $29.578 billion (18.47% of the total) during the 12-month period. Other major apparel items that contributed to China’s export income were jerseys (13.36%), jackets & blazers (9.96%), dressed (6.61%), innerwear (6.39%), T-shirts (5.69%), accessories (4.52%), socks (4.15%), shirts (3.27%), nightwear (2.69%) and coats (2.41%), as per data from TexPro.

India had total apparel export $15.858 billion during April 2021-March 2022. Shirts were the most dominant apparel items for export from India. The country exported shirts worth $2.582 billion (16.28%) during April 2021-March 2022. Other major apparel items that contributed to Indian export were T-shirts (15.15%), dresses (13.13%), trousers & shorts (12.59%), babywear (7.90%), nightwear (5.46%), innerwear (4.49%), accessories (2.79%) and jerseys (2.74%).

ALCHEMPro News Desk (KUL)

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