1. Bulgarian Foreign Trade with Apparel and Textiles Analysis on the basis of statistical data for the first 9 months of 2005 compared to the same period of 2004.

2. The news – good or bad Decrease of 2% in the total export of apparel and textiles Positive trade balance of 515 mln. Lv. Increase of 7% in the export of textiles Increase of 2% in the export of woven garments Decrease of 10,3% in the export of knitted garments

3. Import and Export of Clothing and Textiles (ml. lv.)

4. Change in comparison to 2004

5. Share in the Export for 2005

6. Change in the Export of Clothing (%)

7. Other important characteristics 515 mln. lv. Positive trade balance from the foreign trade with clothing and textiles 1 025 mln. lv. лв. negative trade balance in textiles 1 540 mln. lv. лв. positive trade balance in clothing The clothing industry is heavily dependent on imported textiles

8. Markets Clothing and Textiles RankCountry Export 2005Export 2004Change 1Greece 484 532- 48 2Italy 460 418 42 3Germany 443 447- 4 4France 233 242- 9 5Spain 143 147- 4 6Great Britain 102 108- 6 7Turkey 74 78- 4 8USA 73 124- 51 9Romania 69 40 29 10Austria 43 41 2 11The Netherlands 43 51- 8 12Belgiium 31 37- 6 13Switherland 28 26 2 14Bulgarian Duty Free Areas 25 19 6 15Denmark 21 19 3 16Hungary 17 18- 1 17Canada 15 0 18Yugoslavia 11 12- 2 19Check Republic 11 13- 3 20Russia 8 5 3

9. Export of Knitted Garments Export 2005Export 2004ChangeShare 2005Share 2004 821,10 916- 95 Greece 349,11 421- 7242,5%46,00% Italy 102,71 104- 112,5%11,35% Germany 71,69 95- 248,7%10,42% Spain 67,92 72- 48,3%7,88% Romania 48,67 21 285,9%2,25% Great Britain 32,39 37- 53,9%4,04% USA 30,87 38- 73,8%4,16% France 27,42 40- 133,3%4,42%

10. Export of Clothing Other than Knitted CountryExport 2005Exp[ort 2004ChangeShare 2005Share 2004 1 209,58 1 185,80 23,77 Germany 338,27 322,41 15,8628,0%27,2% France 197,84 187,81 10,0316,4%15,8% Italy 172,23 147,06 25,1714,2%12,4% Greece 124,66 101,25 23,4110,3%8,5% Spain 64,92 63,47 1,445,4%5,3% Great Britain 62,59 61,01 1,595,2%5,1% USA 40,55 82,84- 42,293,4%7,0% Turkey 32,83 30,74 2,092,7%2,6% The Netherlands 30,52 42,22- 11,692,5%3,6% Switzerland 23,14 20,03 3,111,9%1,7%