Apparel exports in Turkey increased by 11.4 per cent in the January-March period of 2018, rising to $4.52 billion in value. During the same period, knitted apparel exports commanded the largest share at 50.6 per cent, while the share of woven apparel’s was 37per cent.
The country exported $3.2 billion worth of ready-to-wear garments to EU countries with Turkey exporting 71.4 per cent of all EU garment exports.
Exports of knitted garments increased by 9.8 per cent compared to the same period last year, rising by $2.3 billion. 21.8 per cent of Turkey's exports of knitted garments went to Germany, 13.1 per cent went to UK, 9.9 per cent to Spain, 5.8 per cent to the Netherlands and 5.5 per cent to Iraq.
