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Philippines' presence in UK textile market limited; potential to grow

During his visit to the Philippines, the UK’s foreign secretary James Cleverly met with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and foreign secretary Enrique Manalo and discussed how to further strengthen the UK-Philippines Enhanced Partnership. 

The Philippines is a textile-exporting country, while the United Kingdom has a vast consumer market. The former country can expand its apparel and home textile exports to the UK as it has minimal presence in the developed market. The UK imported apparel worth $*.*** billion during the first five months of ****. However, the import from the Philippines was valued at just $**.*** million, which was *.** per cent of the total, according to *f_homepage_tpblock&utm_medium=logo&utm_campaign=texpro_****" target="_blank">Fibre2Fashion’s market insight tool TexPro. The Philippines did not find itself among the top ** apparel suppliers for the UK.