The textile industry affects every aspect of our lives. There are many kinds of textile industry like which include: apparel, technical textiles, medical textiles, home textiles or industrial textiles.
Many countries worldwide produce, sell and buy items
considered as part of textile and fashion industry. Which of them are
the biggest producers? Where can we find the greatest number of
shops? Below you can find some interesting facts about textileindustry and its exports that you might be not even aware of.
- Each year, Americans spend $250,000,000,000 on fashion
- 150 grams of pesticides and other agricultural chemicals are used to produce the cotton for just one t-shirt
- Cotton is the most widely used clothing material, but it only became common in mid-1800s, when Eli Whitney’s cotton gin made it easy to separate the cotton fibers from the seeds.
- The Fashion in Australia is a $14 Billion industry consisting of 2000 companies exporting from Australia
- Toronto, Canada is home to more than 550 apparel manufactures with wholesale shipments totalling nearly $1.4 billion of $9 billion of Canadian market.
- Fashion Industry in Toronto combines at more than 4.600 retail stores generating an annual sale of $2.6 billion
- China’s Textile Industry is the largest producer of cotton shirts worldwide, creating an output of 60 million garments a year
- China oversees nearly 4,700 acres of cotton farms which produces 90 million yards of high-quality cotton fabric yearly
- On a worldwide scale, the World Trade Organization reported that global apparel exports were $362 billion during 2008 and textiles exported $250 billion
- During all economic history, China has been a key player in the textile industry. Chinese were already able to produce silk textile in ancient history (4000BC).
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