As per General Administration of Customs of China stats, India is the second largest sewing machine importer during the January-May ’20 period while Vietnam secured the top rank. The other major importers of the Chinese sewing machines during the first five months of 2020 included: Turkey, Japan, USA, Singapore, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran and Brazil.

However, Vietnam’s imports fell by 27.30 per cent to $111.34 million worth of sewing machines, while, India’s imports declined by 39.68 per cent to $68.20 million. On the other hand, Turkey noted a significant rise of 73 per cent in sewing machine imports from China and import valued at $38.58 million. Egypt and Iran were two other countries in top 10, which reported growth in their respective sewing machine import from China by 9.52 per cent and 60.50 per cent.

Japan’s import value from China was $36.54 million which is 20.86 per cent less than what it had imported a year earlier. Chinese sewing machine exports to US stood at $30.65 million, noting a 30.33 per cent yearly drop.

Imports by Bangladesh, a growing destination of the Chinese sewing products till 2019, fell in 2020 by a massive 47.23 per cent to $22.53 million worth of sewing machines from China.