One of India’s biggest garment exporters, Gokaldas Exports has forecast that because the global economy remains weak, demand for clothing too will remain slow in the first half of fiscal 2024. “We are however optimistic about the revival of the business in the second half of fiscal 2024 and are
US garment imports plunged 23.17 percent in the six months to June 2023 to US $38.04 billion vis-a-vis $49.52 billion in the corresponding period of 2022, the Office of Textile and Apparels (OTEXA) said. Imports of apparels from China totaled $7.27 billion, a steep drop of 29.16 percent. Clothing imports from Vietnam reached $6.73 billion, […]
For the month of July 2023, shipments of textiles were down 1.9 percent, while those of garments dropped higher at 17.37 per cent, when compared with July 2022. Textile exports touched US $1.66 billion in July 2023 as against $1.69 billion last July, while garment exports totaled $1.14 billion last month as against $1.38 billion […]
Bangladesh is close to surpassing China as the world’s largest cotton apparel exporter amid stronger demand prospects, which are expected to drive cotton consumption higher. This was informed in the latest United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) report, which also forecast Bangladesh cotton consumption to grow by 800,000 bales to 8.0 million bales in 2023-24. […]
Bangladesh has managed to double its garment exports to the US, which is its largest market over the last five years and in 2022 touched US $9.75 billion. “In the same five-year period, US imports of apparels rose 28 percent to reach almost $100 billion,” figures from the Office of Textile and Apparels (OTEXA) revealed […]
During the first month of fiscal 2024, Bangladeshi garment exports rose sharply by 17.43 per cent to US $3.95 billion, up from $3.37 billion dollars in July 2022. Of this, woven garment shipments grew 11.54 percent in July 2023 and totaled $1.68 billion from $1.51 billion in July 2022, while knitwear export grew year on […]
At a webinar organised by Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC), it was highlighted that 69 percent of textiles related Non Tariff Barrier (NTB) notifications issued since 2019, relate to the garment industry alone. AEPC in collaboration with Sarvada Legal organised the webinar on ‘Emerging non-tariff barriers in the apparel export sector’, with the aim to […]
Bangladesh garment exports to the UK will continue to receive duty free status posts for a three year period following its transition out of the Least Developed Country (LDC) status in 2026. The South Asian country will be eligible to export 92 percent of tariff line products duty-free, which also includes apparels, when accessing the […]
In 2022, the European Union’s garment imports from the world climbed 20.97 percent to reach US $103.09 billion as against $85.23 billion in 2021 and which stood at $90.53 billion in 2018. Quoting EUROSTAT statistics, the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers & Exporters Association (BGMEA) said while, EU’s apparel imports from Bangladesh has grown at a CAGR […]
In the first six months of 2023, Chinese textile exports like home textiles, yarns and fabrics totaled $67.69 billion, down 11 percent over the similar period in 2022. Chinese garment exports dipped slower at 6 percent to US $74.98 billion in the first half of 2023 as against $79.68 billion in the comparable months of […]






















