Exports of home textile exports from Turkey are up 8.7% year on year in the first half of the year reaching to 1.7 billion dollars
When detailed on product categories, towel and bathrobe exports recorded and reached to 477 million dollars for the same period. Share of this category is about 29% while bed linens has 19% and curtains and upholstery fabrics have about 18 percent share.
Top three export markets for Turkish home textile products are Germany, Russia and the USA. The following list shows export markets and values of exports between Jan. to Jun 2014 period (million dollars):
Yasar Kucukcalik, President of Tetsiad, Turkish Home Textile Industrialists’ Association, said, “Turkish home textile industry has a foreign trade volume of 1.896 billion dollars in Jan-June 2014 period; 1.675 billion dollars of exports and 220 billion dollars of imports. Thus it has a surplus of 1,454 billion dollars in the home textile products trade. Last year the home textile industry expanded 8.7 % in the same period. We, as Tetsiad, are carrying our efforts with an aim to increase it more, will all member companies by participating fairs abroad and international events. We aimed to build a Turkish Made brand in the word having a novel and contemporary view to our businesses. Our year end forecast for home textile industry is about 3.8 billion dollars.”
