As per the Exports and Tourism Promotion Board (PromPeru), US demand for Peruvian garments rose 6 per cent between January and April 2018 compared to the same period in 2017. The United States' garment imports expanded 2.4 per cent in the first four months of the current year. Similarly, shipments of Inca garments increased 87.2 per cent between January and April 2018. These were followed by those from Canada (+56 per cent), Brazil (+49.4 per cent), Germany (+39.1 per cent), and Argentina (+17.9 per cent).

Garment exports account for 68 per cent of Peru's total textile sales and 57 per cent of the sector's growth, which is mainly explained by greater shipments of knitted cotton shirts (+43.5 per cent) and cotton T-shirts (+21.5 per cent). PromPeru noted national garment exports amounted to $295 million in Jan-Apr period, up 9.6 per cent over the same term last year. Garment sales abroad saw a 17.5 per cent rise last April compared to the same month in 2017.