Lithuania increased its apparel import from Turkey by 800 percent, as imports increased from US $ 5.8 million to US $ 52.1 million for January through April 2015 when compared to 2014. While in the first four months of this year, its textile exports to Germany decreased by 22.9 per cent to US $ 1 billion. The decrease was around 4 per cent in exports to the UK, dropping to US $ 664 million, while Spain’s imports from Turkey decreased by 6.8 per cent to US $ 482 million.
Istanbul Ready-Made Garment and Apparel Exporters’ Association (IHKIB) issued Ready-Made Garment and Apparel Sector April report and claims that between January and April, US $ 5.4 billion worth of garments and apparel were exported from Turkey to 192 countries. Lithuania, which succeeded in surviving the damage of the 2009 economic crisis through strict savings, switched to the euro and increased its GDP in the medium and long-term, firmly putting it on the radar of the Turkish textile sector.
