Ethiopia Jeans Exports-November and December 2019

For years now, Ethiopia has been growing rapidly with a long term goal to position itself as the world’s next big destination for textile and fashion production. With an array of many duty free incentives and infrastructure developments – like the freshly built industrial parks for garment manufacturing – the country in over the past years has opened doors for international apparel brands like H&M, Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger to establish factories for producing a low-cost garment.

The country has plans to achieve the target of apparel exports to a total of $30 billion a year in the coming years. However the minimum wage is still a matter of grave concern, it is the lowest comparing the other garment manufacturing hubs.

According to the reports, the average wage of garment workers is as low as $26, which is substantially lower than the other low paying countries including Myanmar and Bangladesh.

In this report, we’ve done the analysis of Jeans Exports From Ethiopia during November and December 2019 and our analysis focuses on three fundamentals :

• Value Of Jeans Exported
• Top Export Destinations
• Leading Buyers
• Leading Suppliers

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Value Of Jeans Exported And The Exporting Destinations

Ethiopia is still a country which is developing slowly and the data generation is not still complete with all shipments not being captured. . However, from the available data we can see that during Nov and Dec’19, Jeans valued $3.83 million was exported out of which major portion to the tune of 80% exported to the USA. This number looks very small but we need to remember that Ethiopia will need some time to get its data in full order. We can only work on the figures currently available.

Italy was the second largest importer and imported 8% of the Jeans during the same period. Other countries that imported jeans from Ethiopia include Spain, Malaysia, Italy, and Canada.

Leading Buyers

The Children Place emerged as the biggest jeans buyer and has imported $2.91 million(76%) value of jeans through its subsidiaries based in the United States, Malaysia, and Canada.

Other major buyers includes La Sportiva SPA from Italy, Decathlon Sports from Spain and Bangir Group From USA, they’ve imported jeans valued $0.36 million, $0.15 million and $0.13 million respectively.

Leading Suppliers

Arvind Lifestyle Apparel Manufacturing, which is an Indian conglomerate, made 34% of shipment from Ethiopia which is valued at $1.29 million. Indochine Apparel is at #2 with $0.79 million followed by Asthon Apparel with $0.63 million value of Jeans export during Nov and Dec’19.

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