European Exports

Evolution (by volume)
Total Exports/Productions, U.E of 12 (1990) then 15 (1997 and 1998)

	1990	1997	1998
Cotton	26,9%	43,0%	45,5%
Discontinuous synthetic fibres	28,2%	37,6%	38,4%
Discontinuous artificial fibres	24,3%	54,1%	48,5%
Woolen yarns	14,7%	14,8%	14,1%
Worsted yarns	20,3%	33,2%	30,9%
Continuous-filaments synthetic yarns	62,6%	61,4%	64,2%
Continuous-filaments artificial yarns	19,1%	26,4%	27,3%
Linen	64,2%	77,7%	87,7%
Hand-knitting yarn	53,6%	60,3%	56,5%
TOTAL ALL FIBRES	36,0%	45,9%	47,6%

A sector that is increasingly geared to foreign markets : exports are up by 2 points between 1997 and 1998 and by 12 points in eight years.

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European Exports
Intra and extra- EU sales

Share of sales outside the community/fibres (en % of total exports) : Total all fibres = 20%

Whilst most trade remains concentrated whitin the European countries, sales outside the European Union represent 20 % of the total exports in 1998, showing a decrease due to the crisis in Asia


	Cotton
	Discontinuous synthetic fibres
	Discontinuous artificial fibres
	Woolen yarns
	Worsted yarns
	Continuous-filament synthetic yarns
	Continuous-filament artificial yarns
	Linen
	Hand-knitting yarn

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European exports
by country (value)
Total exports for EU of 15 in million Euros, 1998
(%) = share of European exports

Total U.E. 15 = 7, 688 millions Euro (+2% /1997)

Italy maintains its leading position in European yarn exports by value, follwed by Germany, Belgium and France.

(1) the whole of Benelux for continuous-filament yarns
(2) including Ireland for Linen.

The European spinning Industry - Economic Dossier - -A study produced by the Institut Français de la Mode on behalf of EXPOFIL