INSIGHTS
- Made-ups ranked first in Germany’s home textile imports in 2022, valued at $1.794 billion and comprising 27.89 per cent of total imports.
- Despite a declining trend since 2020, made-ups remained dominant in the $6.433 billion home textiles import market.
- China was the largest supplier, accounting for 27.15 per cent of total imports, followed by Turkiye.
Made-ups topped among Germany’s imports of home textiles in 2022. Its imports of home textiles totalled $6.433 billion. Out of it, the imports of made-ups were valued at $1.794 billion in the period under review. The share of made-ups was roughly 27.89 per cent of the total.
Trade data shows that the imports of made-ups have registered constant decline since 2020 when it peaked because of overall rise in imports of home textiles. The import of made-ups soared by 565.62 per cent to reach at $8.417 billion in 2020 from $1.264 billion in 2019. But the figure eased to $2.839 billion in 2021 and further to 1.794 billion in 2022. Despite the declining trend, made-ups were on the top in the home textiles imports, according to Fibre2Fashion’s market insight tool TexPro.
Among other products of home textiles, the imports of bed were valued at $1.549 billion with a share of 24.08 per cent in total imports. The inbound shipment of window was $750.471 million (11.66%), floor $710111 million (11.04%), bathroom & kitchen $493.103 million (7.66%), sacks & bags $357.477 million (5.56%), camping $357.394 million (5.55%), furnishing articles $222.412 million (3.46%) and table $106.835 million (1.66%), as per TexPro.
Germany’s total home textile imports peaked at $12.715 billion in 2020 from $5.487 billion in 2019. It eased down to $7.845 billion in 2021 and further to $6.433 billion in 2022. China was the largest supplier of home textiles products. The import from China was $1.746 billion in 2022, which was 27.15 per cent of Germany’s total imports of home textiles that year. Among the top five suppliers, the share of Turkiye was 10.49 per cent, Poland 8.80 per cent, Netherlands 8.73 per cent, and Pakistan 8.02 per cent of the total, as per TexPro.
Source: https://www.fibre2fashion.com/