Statistical information
FEBRUARY 2024 WITH CLOSING INFORMATION FOR 2023
Analysis prepared by CANAINTEX.
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TOTAL MEXICAN EXPORTS OF TEXTILE AND APPAREL PRODUCTS
Millions of Dollars
There are companies in the Textile-Apparel Industry that are vertically integrated from yarn manufacturing to the making of the final product, which supports the integration of the entire industry.
TOTAL EXPORTS. MAIN TEXTILE-APPAREL EXPORTS
Millions of dollars
When reviewing foreign trade figures, the strengthening (14%) of the exchange rate must be considered, as it may impact the percentage variation with respect to previous years.
Apparel
From January to December 2023, pants and T-shirts were the main products exported; these two items represented 36% of total exports. Surgical towels stood out in the period, with an increase of 8% compared to the 2022 period.
TOTAL EXPORTS. Main destination countries for Mexican exports
Millions of dollars
From January to December 2023, total exports were $9,261 million dollars, 91% of exports of textile and apparel products were destined to the United States ($8,429 million dollars).
The other countries with the highest participation during that same period were: Nicaragua $99 million dollars, Canada $97 million dollars, Guatemala $84 million dollars.
TOTAL EXPORTS. Main destination countries for Mexican exports
Millions of dollars
Third quarter Exports 2023 by Federal Entity. Millions of dollars
As of the third quarter of 2023, the states of Coahuila, Puebla and Baja California were the entities with the largest participation in Textile Industry exports with 227 million dollars, 213 million dollars and 169 million dollars respectively.
With respect to the Apparel Industry, in the third quarter of the year, the three main exporting states were Coahuila with 417 million dollars, Baja California with 376 million dollars and Puebla with 293 million dollars respectively.
United States Imports of Textile and Apparel Products
When reviewing foreign trade figures, the strengthening (14%) of the exchange rate must be considered, as it may impact the percentage variation with respect to previous years.
The main items that the United States imported from the world were pants, sweaters, T-shirts and coats, which together represented 40% of that country’s total imports.
Total Mexican imports of textile and apparel products
Millions of dollars
TOTAL IMPORTS. Main textile and apparel imported products
Millions of dollars
From January to December 2023, the Textile products that registered the highest shares in imports were Woven Fabrics (19%), Nonwovens (14%), Coated Fabrics (12%) and Filament Fabrics (12%), which represented 56% of total imports.
Regarding Apparel products, Pants (17%), T-shirts (12%), Sweaters (10%) and Dresses (5%) accounted for 46% of total imports.
TOTAL IMPORTS. Main countries of origin of Mexican imports
Millions of Dollars
Imports in the Apparel sector come mainly from China, which represent 32% of the total.
Trade Balance of the Textile-Apparel Industry for the last year
In December 2023, the Trade Balance showed a surplus of 402 million dollars. Imports were 942 million dollars and exports 1,344 million dollars.
When reviewing foreign trade figures, the strengthening (14%) of the exchange rate must be considered, as it may impact the percentage variation with respect to previous years.
Textile-Apparel GDP
In the fourth quarter of 2023, the manufacturing GDP was 5,176,776 million pesos. The share of the Textile-Clothing Industry was 1.8%.
In the fourth quarter of 2023, the GDP of the Textile-Apparel Industry was 94,908 million pesos.
Composition of GDP, Subsectors
Formal employment in recent years
In the month of December 2023, a total of 1,213,828 jobs were registered, of which 818,489 are informal and 395,339 are formal.
From March 2019 to August 2020, a total of 75 thousand jobs were lost and 2019 employment levels have not been recovered.
The majority of formal jobs belong to the Apparel sector. In December 2023, there were 267 thousand jobs in this sector, which represent 68% of total formal jobs.
It is worth highlighting that the Textile sector is capital intensive, while the Apparel sector is labor intensive. For every job created in the Textile industry, 4 jobs can be generated for the Apparel sector, which is why the Textile Industry drives employment growth in the production chain.
Share of women in formal employment
Within the Manufacturing Industries, the textile-apparel sector is where there is the highest concentration of women who work, with the manufacturing apparel products being the one with the highest participation in formal employment with 58%, equivalent to 155,896 of jobs for women.
Distribution of formal employment by federal entity
- The Textile Industry is present throughout the Mexican Republic.
- In the north of the country there is the cotton agro-industry, the main input used in the sector.
- Most of the jobs in the textile sector are concentrated in the central-southwestern states.
- In the apparel sector, most of the jobs are located in the north of the country.