Country sourcing profiles
The best sources for understanding apparel exporting countries and their competitiveness are:
The Clothesource Souring Kit. Click for a copy of Sourcing Kit Brochure
The Clothesource Guide to Trade Rules
The Source. Click here for a sample copy of Source Jun 08
Free Country Profiles
You can download one of our free Country Thumbnails. Updated to June 2008, they are currently available for over 60 supplier countries. This is a list of thumbnails now available, and the share each of these countries had of world apparel manufacture:
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World market share |
| |
H1 08 | H1 07 | |
| Albania | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| Bangladesh | 8.0% | 8.8% |
| Bosnia | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Brunei | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Bulgaria | 0.5% | 0.5% |
| Burma | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Cambodia | 2.0% | 1.8% |
| China | 35.6% | 35.7% |
| Colombia | 0.2% | 0.3% |
| Costa Rica | 0.9% | 1.0% |
| Croatia | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| Czech | 0.3% | 0.2% |
| Dom Rep | 1.1% | 1.3% |
| Ecuador | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Egypt | 0.9% | 0.8% |
| El Sal | 2.7% | 2.3% |
| Guatemala | 1.1% | 1.1% |
| Haiti | 0.7% | 0.8% |
| Honduras | 4.6% | 3.9% |
| Hong Kong | 1.0% | 1.1% |
| Hungary | 0.2% | 0.3% |
| India | 5.2% | 5.0% |
| Indonesia | 3.3% | 3.1% |
| Israel | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| Jordan | 0.5% | 0.6% |
| Kenya | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Laos | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Latvia | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Lesotho | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| Lithuania | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Macao | 0.6% | 0.7% |
| Macedonia | 0.2% | 0.1% |
| Madagascar | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| Malaysia | 0.8% | 0.6% |
| Mauritius | 0.3% | 0.3% |
| Mexico | 2.6% | 2.9% |
| Moldova | 0.0% | 0.1% |
| Morocco | 1.0% | 1.0% |
| Nicaragua | 1.0% | 0.8% |
| Pakistan | 2.9% | 3.0% |
| Peru | 0.4% | 0.4% |
| Philippines | 0.9% | 1.0% |
| Poland | 0.5% | 0.4% |
| Romania | 0.8% | 0.9% |
| Serbia | 0.8% | 0.6% |
| Singapore | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Slovakia | 0.4% | 0.4% |
| Slovenia | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| South Korea | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Sri Lanka | 1.8% | 1.7% |
| Swaziland | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Syria | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Taiwan | 0.7% | 0.7% |
| Thailand | 1.8% | 1.8% |
| Tunisia | 0.8% | 0.9% |
| Turkey | 5.5% | 6.1% |
| UAE | 0.1% | 0.2% |
| Ukraine | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Vietnam | 3.4% | 2.7% |