Made-ups topped among Germany’s imports of home textiles in 2022. Its imports of home textiles totalled $6.433 bn. Out of it, the imports of made-ups were valued at $1.794 bn in the period under review. The share of made-ups was roughly 27.89 percent of the total.
Trade data shows that the imports of made-ups have registered constant decline since 2020 when it peaked because of overall rise in imports of home textiles. The import of made-ups soared by 565.62 percent to reach at $8.417 bn in 2020 from $1.264 bn in 2019. But the figure eased to $2.839 bn in 2021 and further to 1.794 bn in 2022. Despite the declining trend, made-ups were on the top in the home textiles imports, according to market report.
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Among other products of home textiles, the imports of bed were valued at $1.549 bn with a share of 24.08 percent in total imports. The inbound shipment of window was $750.471 mn (11.66%), floor $710111 mn (11.04%), bathroom & kitchen $493.103 mn (7.66%), sacks & bags $357.477 mn (5.56%), camping $357.394 mn (5.55%), furnishing articles $222.412 mn (3.46%) and table $106.835 mn (1.66%), as per market report.
Germany’s total home textile imports peaked at $12.715 bn in 2020 from $5.487 bn in 2019. It eased down to $7.845 bn in 2021 and further to $6.433 bn in 2022. China was the largest supplier of home textiles products. The import from China was $1.746 bn in 2022, which was 27.15 percent of Germany’s total imports of home textiles that year. Among the top five suppliers, the share of Turkiye was 10.49 percent, Poland 8.80 percent, Netherlands 8.73 percent, and Pakistan 8.02 percent of the total, as per market report.
