Apparel exports from Turkiye increased by 14.71 percent year-on-year in January-February 2022, according to the data from the Turkish Statistical Institute and the country’s Ministry of trade. During the first two months of the current year, Turkiye exported apparel worth $3.074 bn, compared to exports of $2.680 bn during the same period of 2021.
Category-wise, exports of knitted and crocheted clothing and accessories (HS chapter 61) earned $1.738 bn in January-February 2022, registering a growth of 15.9 percent over $1.5 bn earned during the same months of the previous year.
Exports of non-knitted apparel and accessories (HS chapter 62) were valued at $1.335 bn, showing an increase of 13.2 percent compared to $1.179 bn exports made in January-February 2021. Exports of old clothing and other textile articles and rags (HS chapter 63) also grew by 10.3 per cent year-on-year to $512.822 mn during the period under discussion. However, exports of carpets, mats matting and tapestries (HS chapter 57) fell by 6,2 percent to $459.120 mn during the two-month period.
Meanwhile, Turkiye’s imports of cotton, cotton yarn and cotton textiles (HS chapter 52) increased by a sharp 110.4 percent to $831.355 mn, over $395.214 mn in the first two months of 2021. Likewise, man-made filament imports too shot up by 89.0 percent year-on-year to $535.601 mn, the data showed.
