China was the top supplier of home textiles to Germany in the first half of 2022. Among exporters of home textiles to Germany, China had a 27 per cent share even as its share declined by 38 per cent from the first half of 2021.Turkey’s exports of home textiles to Germany from January 2022 to June 2022 amounted to ten per cent of the latter’s imports. Turkey’s supply increased by 14 per cent year-on-year.Poland accounted for eight per cent of Germany’s home textile imports. But the supply declined by 12 per cent from the first half of 2021.Germany’s imports of home textiles from Netherlands in the first half of this year wereeight per cent of its total imports. But they decreased by 31 per cent from January 2021 to June 2021.Pakistan’s shipment of home textiles to the European country rose by 21 per cent in the first half of 2022 compared to the first half of 2021.

As for the share of other countries in Germany’s home textile imports, India had a five per cent share, Czech Republic four per cent, Belgium two per cent, Austria two per cent and Vietnam one per cent.