As per the data released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK), Turkey is now the sixth largest textile and confection exporter of the world with around 4 per cent share. China tops the list with 41 per cent, followed by India with 5.4 per cent, Italy with 5.3 per cent and Germany with 5 per cent.
The report also states that Turkey was one of the three countries which gave a trade surplus in the sector. China’s textiles sector’s trade surplus was US $ 264.6 billion last year, followed by India with around US $ 33.7 billion and Turkey with around US $ 16 billion. These countries were followed by the United States, Japan, Britain and Germany.
