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The following is a list of countries by textile exports. Data is for 2022, in billions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. [1] Currently thirty countries, as of 2022, are listed.
According to the Ministry of Textiles, the share of textiles in total exports during April–July 2010 was 11.04%. During 2009–2010, the Indian textile industry was pegged at US$ 55 billion, 64% of which services domestic demand. [25] In 2010, there were 2,500 textile weaving factories and 4,135 textile finishing factories in all of India. [26]
There was textile trade in India during the early centuries. Cotton fragments from Gujarat have been found in tombs of Egypt, indicating the existence of export of Indian textiles to Egypt during the medieval era. [10] Large quantities of north Indian silks were traded through the Silk Road in China to the western countries(130 B.C.E. - 1453 C ...
The Multi Fibre Arrangement (MFA) governed the world trade in textiles and garments from 1974 through 1994, imposing quotas on the amount developing countries could export to developed countries. Its successor, the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC), expired on 1 January 2005.
[2] [3] Coimbatore is often referred to as the Manchester of South India due to its cotton production and textile industries. [4] [5] As of 2022, Tiruppur exported garments worth $480 billion, contributing to nearly 54% of the all the textile exports from India and the city is known as the knitwear capital due to its cotton knitwear export.
Made Trade compiled a brief history of women and textiles in the United States, drawing on historical museum documents, interviews, and research.
The export of secondhand clothes to developing countries is often controversial. Detractors argue that it drives down local prices to such an extent that domestic textile industries in these countries become unable to compete. For example, many sub-Saharan African countries have seen their textile industries decline significantly since the 1990s.
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