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Brazil: clothes production in decline as imports rise

06/12/2012
Brazil’s textile and apparel industry association, ABIT, has reported an increase of 9.4% in the value imports of clothes and textiles in the first ten months of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011, with the 2012 figure reaching $5.6 billion.

Taken separately, imports of finished garments increased by 31.4% over the period to record a value of more than $1.8 billion.

Excluding cotton fibre, Brazil’s exports of textiles and garments over the same ten-month period registered a fall of 9.3% to reach just over $1 billion. ABIT said figures for the first nine months of 2012 showed that its member companies’ textile production had declined by 5.1% while apparel manufacture was down by 11.2%.

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