According to a study conducted by the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S), Kolkata, the UAE is now the world’s third biggest importer of textiles. Midhat M. Abu Ghazaleh, CEO of Abughazaleh Trading Company asserted that of the total textile global imports, the country has a share of 7.75 per cent. The UAE is positioned at third after United States (20.38 per cent) and UK (8.11 per cent) and surpassed Germany (7.65 per cent), France (4.46 per cent), Italy (3.74 per cent), Spain (3.08 per cent), Netherlands (2.57 per cent), Bangladesh (2.83 per cent) and China (2.10 per cent).
