Translated by
Nicola Mira
Revealed
March 12, 2025
After three development years, France’s attire exports decreased by 1% in 2024, and textiles exports by 3%, whereas textile-apparel imports continued to decrease.
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Final yr, France exported €14 billion price of attire. Regardless of the lower on an annual foundation, export income was nonetheless a lot larger than the €10.7 billion recorded in 2019, earlier than the pandemic. The European Union was nonetheless France’s largest consumer, with €7.6 billion (up 1%), in comparison with €6.5 billion for the remainder of the world (down 3%).
By nation, France’s prime attire purchasers had been Italy (the place exports fell 5%), Germany (up 1%), Spain (down 2%), the USA (up 1%) and China (up 1%). The tariff struggle not too long ago triggered by the US administration may redraw the map of France’s relations with the final two international locations. In the meantime, exports to Poland grew by a whopping 24%, these to the UAE by 25%, to Romania by 2% and to Hungary by 14%. Excluding Italy, the one sharp decline was recorded in Singapore, the place French export income fell by 44%.
In 2024, France exported €5.5 billion price of textiles, a 3% downturn, although the determine was nonetheless larger than the €4.7 billion exported in 2019. Textiles export income was cut up virtually equally between Europe with €2.8 billion (down 1%) and the remainder of the world with €2.7 billion (down 5%).
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China was France’s main textiles consumer, exports to the Asian nation rising 6%, forward of Belgium and Germany, the place exports had been on par with the earlier yr. Within the rating of France’s 20 prime textiles purchasers, solely Spain (up 4%), Portugal (up 2%), the Czech Republic (up 15%), India (up 26%) and Hong Kong (up 22%) recorded will increase. Exports to all different international locations posted a drop, even a marked one within the case of the USA (the place they fell 11%), Madagascar (down 27%) and Turkey (down 12%).
Imports lower slows down
France’s attire imports grew considerably in 2022 however then diminished by 8% in 2023. In 2024, they dropped by only one%, to €23.4 billion, in comparison with €21.3 billion in 2019. The highest 4 provider international locations had been China (up 1%), Bangladesh (secure), Italy (up 1%) and Turkey (down 6%), adopted by Vietnam (up 13%), which leapfrogged India (down 6%) in fifth place.
Behind them, Cambodia (up 16%), forward of Tunisia (down 7%) and Morocco (up 2%). Imports from Pakistan recorded a 14% rise, whereas these from another international locations posted notable declines, for instance from Portugal (down 11%), Myanmar (down 31%), Belgium (down 20%), Romania (down 10%) and notably Germany (down 29%).
Institut Français de la Mode
By way of textiles, final yr France imported €7.3 billion price of products. This was equal to a 4% downturn, smaller than the 9% drop recorded in 2023, and nonetheless above the €6.4 billion imported in 2019. Imports from non-EU international locations, price €3.9 billion (up 2%), had been larger than these from Europe, price €3.4 billion (down 10%).
China (up 7%), Italy (down 19%), Germany (down 7%), Belgium (down 1%) and Pakistan (down 5%) had been the principle provider international locations, adopted by India (down 12%), Turkey (down 3%) and the Netherlands (down 6%). Imports from Bangladesh grew by a notable 13%, whereas these from Poland and Japan decreased respectively by 13% and 10%.
