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.

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

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

Change in comparison to 2004

Share in the Export for 2005

Change in the Export of Clothing (%)

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

Markets Clothing and Textiles RankCountry Export 2005Export 2004Change 1Greece Italy Germany France Spain Great Britain Turkey USA Romania Austria The Netherlands Belgiium Switherland Bulgarian Duty Free Areas Denmark Hungary Canada Yugoslavia Check Republic Russia 8 5 3

Export of Knitted Garments Export 2005Export 2004ChangeShare 2005Share , Greece 349, ,5%46,00% Italy 102, ,5%11,35% Germany 71, ,7%10,42% Spain 67, ,3%7,88% Romania 48, ,9%2,25% Great Britain 32, ,9%4,04% USA 30, ,8%4,16% France 27, ,3%4,42%

Export of Clothing Other than Knitted CountryExport 2005Exp[ort 2004ChangeShare 2005Share , ,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%