South Africa’s garment imports from Bangladesh amounted to $73.682 million in 2020, $91.784 million in 2019, $87.979 million in 2018 and $65.345 million in 2017, according to Fibre2Fashion’s market insight tool TexPro.
As for the quarterly imports of South Africa from Bangladesh, they were at $31.623 million in Q3 2022, $27.263 million in Q2 2022 and $32.838 million in Q1 2022. The imports were recorded at $26.502 million in Q4 2021, $27.053 million in Q3 2021 and $25.472 million in Q2 2021.
South Africa’s apparel imports from Bangladesh are set to breach last year’s figures as they have already touched $91.724 million in the first three quarters of this year. The imports amounted to $105.578 million last year. Bangladesh’s share in South Africa’s total apparel imports was merely 6.26 per cent during January to September this year.
Imports of trousers and shorts were at $29.339 million, constituting 32.67 per cent of the total apparel imports during January-September 2022. The imports of jerseys stood at $21.732 million (24.20 per cent), T-shirts at $14.391 million (16.03 per cent), shirts at $9.275 million (10.33 per cent) and jackets and blazers at $3.541 million (3.94 per cent). Bangladesh was one of the top five apparel suppliers to South Africa, as per TexPro.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (KUL)
