Apparel Online Bangladesh Magazine Magazine March 2018 | Page 58

TRADE STATISTICS
EU continues rising in its apparel imports
January to November 2017
The European Union has witnessed an upward trend with a sharp increase in volume-wise apparel imports. The fall
in unit prices of the imported apparels, especially from China and India, was an added advantage for the Union
and its clothing market. The retailers, seeing the rise in the market due to holiday season, buckled the belt and
helped mark 2.33% rise in the overall apparel import by the EU. However, a decline can be noted in the month of
December which is considered a month of slowdown as far as apparel imports are concerned.
Global apparel imports by the
European Union: Jan.-Nov. '17
Bangladesh’s top product category
(Trousers) to EU
Top 3 product categories imported
by EU
Change in Quantity
2.33 %
Change in Value
1.01%
T-SHIRTS SWEATERS TROUSERS
Volume
(0.05%) Volume
(4.44%) Volume
(1.71%)
Value
(0.98%) Value
(2.14%) Value
(1.87%)
1.79 %
Change in UVR
UVR change in apparel imported by EU
(3-years comparison)
Value rises
Volume rises
Spending on clothes per year by the
consumers in Denmark, Finland and
Sweden
Finland
Jan.-Nov.’17
€ 17.18
0.52 %
(Average UVR in the review period
was Euro 17.18 per kg of fabric
equivalent as against Euro 17.27
in the same period last year)
2.27%
Sweden
Denmark
Jan.-Nov.’16
€ 17.27
€ 800
Jan.-Nov.’15
€ 17.53
Change in Knitted Segment
Quantity
2.71 %
Value
2.06 %
Month-wise EU apparel import trend
7.51
Jan-17
7.21
Mar-17
5.3
Apr-17
Change in Woven Segment
Quantity
1.84 %
Value
1.52 %
6.1
May-17
18.70%
6.3
Jun-17
7.51
Jul-17
8.64
Aug-17
7.68
Sep-17
Oct-17 6.95
Nov-17 6.65
0
[The information has been extracted
from EU custom site and further analyzed.]
33.24%
6.34
Feb-17
Value-wise share to EU by top exporters
(Jan.-Nov.’17)
1
2
3
4
(Value in
5
6
€ billion)
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7
8
6.19%
3.80%
9
10
China
Vietnam
Bangladesh
3.26% India
Pakistan India