Denim has one of the main booming textile segments in India in the last one decade. Where the capacity of Indian mills to produce denim fabrics was only about 300 million meters in 2005, it has risen over 300% to reach about 1.3 billion and India stands second only to China globally. There is also decent exports of denim apparel and some fabrics from India to EU . The last three year trend of export to EU has been  encouraging and this has raised the expectations for upcoming years. The average growth rate of exports of Denim Fabric during the period of 2014-16 to EU is 17.16%  and garment exports have also grown in volume in good numbers. The averages prices are quite decent compared to other exporting countries but the volumes are also correspondingly lesser.  This report explains all such changes during the period of 2014-16 in detail.

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1.Imports of Denim Fabrics Into EU from India.

[private_special] In the year 2014,  India exported 2.91 Million Sq. Meter of denim fabrics at an average price of Euro 1.61/Sq.Meter and as compared to the export of 2013 which was 2.41 Million Sq.Meter , the export of 2014 registered a growth of 20.75 %  . However ,In the year 2015, the growth rate dips to 18.56 % but in terms of  volume , it was still in upwards direction with 3.45 Million Square Meter with an average price of Euro 1.80/Sq.Meter. The Year 2016 showed a marginal growth in volume however the growth rate was still diminishing. In the year 2016 , the total export was 3.87 Million Sq Meter at an average price of Euro 1.78/Sq.Meter and the growth rate was merely 12.17% as compared to the year 2015 .

2.Imports of Men’s Jeans Into EU from India.

In the year 2014, India exported 4.28 million pcs of Men’s Jeans at an average price of Euro 9.34/pc . As compared to the year 2013 , In 2014 , the export has a growth of 16.94 %. There is marginal change in the export volume for the year 2015 and it stood at 4.26 Million Pcs at an average price Euro 9.67/Pc . The year 2016 has encouraging growth rate of 19.72% with export volume of 5.1 million pcs of Men’s jeans at an average price of Euro 9.18/Pc.

3.Imports of Women’s/Girls Jeans Into EU from India.

In the year 2014, India exported 1.64 million pcs of women’s Jeans at an average price of Euro 8.21/pc . As compared to the year 2013 , In 2014 , the export has a negative growth of (5.75) %. There is marginal change in the export volume for the year 2015 and it stood at 1.87 Million Pcs at an average price Euro 9.03/Pc . The year 2016 has encouraging growth rate of 12.82% with export volume of 2.11 million pcs of women’s jeans at an average price of Euro 8.8/Pc.

Hence if we look at in a summary, the exports of denim jeans to EU is growing from India. The prices are also much higher as the country is dealing in value added products as it cannot compete with countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan who have GSP . The chances of Indian exports becoming huge in coming years seem minimal but there might be constant growth as buyers want to keep alternative production bases. [/private_special]Denimsandjeans coming to two destinations in coming quarter !