Natural and man-made are the two main categories of fibers used for fashion products – details of the most widely-used ones are specified in the figure. The global demand for fibers has continued increasing rapidly, and polyester occupies a dominant role after surpassing the demand for cotton in 2002. According Read more…
The global clothing consumption has kept growing in the past 15 years from 2001 to 2016, with only a temporary setback during the financial crisis of 2008. USA, Japan and European countries are still listed top consumers according to their respective imports. At the same time, Spain increased its clothing Read more…
As the top consumer, USA has been leading in the world’s imports of textiles and clothing from 2001 to 2016. Both Vietnam and Bangladesh had tremendous increases in textile imports, because of their rapid development of clothing manufacturing industry and their lack of capacity in textile production.
The top ten exporters contributed 72.9% to the world’s clothing export shares in 2016, while only 55.3% was accounted for in 2001. Similar to that for textiles, the share from Mainland China exceeded one-third of the global clothing exports. Bangladesh and Vietnam also had tremendous increases in recent years and Read more…
The top ten exporters acquired 71.8% of the world textile shares in 2016, increased by 5.7% when comparing to 2001. China exported 36.8% of the world textiles with a sharp increase of 25.4% from 2001 to 2016. At the same time, only India and Turkey had registered growth while all Read more…
The term fashion industry used in this report covers the entire supply chain of fashion products. It includes the manufacture of textiles, clothing and allied products from the fiber stage, through production to the distribution phase. In the Hong Kong context, fashion industry comprises companies in the manufacture, trading, testing, Read more…
This report identifies the promising directions for the technology and advanced material developments to enable new-comers and SMEs of the local textile and fashion industry to continue playing a major role in the future re-industrialization in the HK economy, which is critically important for the sustainable development of the Hong Read more…