China's share of EU textile and clothing market declines year on year

 

Before 2020, China's share in the EU textile and apparel import market reached a peak of 42.5 per cent in 2010, and has declined year by year since then, falling to 31.1 per cent in 2019. New Crown pneumonia outbreak, triggered by the EU masks, protective clothing and other products demand is growing rapidly, the epidemic prevention materials imported a large number of China in the EU textile and apparel imports market share of the share of the EU textile and apparel imports back to 42.7% of the high level. However, with the demand for epidemic-prevention materials falling back from the peak, coupled with the increasingly complex international trade environment, China's exports of textiles and clothing in the EU market share is back on a downward trajectory, 32.3% in 2022. In China's market share decline at the same time, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and other three South Asian countries market share increased most obviously. 2010, the above three South Asian countries textile and clothing only accounted for 18.5% of the EU import market, the proportion of 2022, the proportion of 26.7%.

 

Since the U.S. so-called "border-related bill" came into effect, China's textile industry foreign trade environment has become more complex and severe. 2022 September, the European Commission adopted the so-called "forced labor ban" draft, suggesting that the EU take measures to prohibit the use of products made with forced labor in the EU market. products made with forced labour on the EU market. Although the EU has not yet announced the progress of the draft and the time of its entry into force, many buyers have adjusted to cut the scale of direct imports from China for risk avoidance, while indirectly prompting China's textile enterprises to increase their overseas production capacity, which affected the scale of China's direct exports of textiles and garments.

 

January to April 2023, in the EU imports of textiles and clothing, China's share of the market share of only 26.9%, down 4.1 percentage points compared with the same period last year, has been the three South Asian countries together accounted for 2.3 percentage points back over. From a country perspective, China's share in the import market of textile and clothing in France and Germany, the main member states of the European Union, has declined, and the share of the import market in the United Kingdom has also shown the same trend.2023 January to April, China's exports of textile and clothing in France, Germany and the United Kingdom import market share of 27.5 per cent, 23.5 per cent and 26.6 per cent, respectively, compared with the same period of the previous year, a decline of 4.6, 4.6 and 26.6 per cent, respectively. 4.6, 4.6 and 4.1 percentage points from the same period of the previous year.

 

China's textile and garment import market share in the EU