As per official estimates, Uzbekistan will engage in complete processing of cotton fiber by 2020. The country will also increase its global share of finished products from 40 per cent to atleast 60 per cent. As a result of the creation of new capacities and organisation of cluster activities in 2019, as many as 78 per cent of the harvested cotton fiber will be processed in the country, which is twice as much as in 2017.

According to the State Statistics Committee, in January-May 2019, total exports of textile products amounted to $653.7 million and increased by 21.9 percent compared to the same period of 2018, which is 10.2 percent of total exports. Russia is the main consumer of textile products from Uzbekistan. The country consumed over 38 percent of Uzbekistan’s textile exports during January-May 2019.

Over the past three years, Uzbek textiles exports to China more than doubled, from $90.9 million in January-May 2017 to $190.3 million in the same period of 2019. Turkey is also one of the largest consumers of textile products from Uzbekistan. From the beginning of the year, products worth $63.6 million were shipped to Turkey.

The main share in the structure of textile exports is taken by cotton yarn (58.6 percent), as well as finished knitwear and garments (22.4 percent). Since the beginning of the year, more than 336 types of these goods have been exported to 50 countries.