Two categories—trousers & shorts, and T-shirts—together accounted for 40 per cent of total apparel imports by Germany in the first three months of 2022. Trousers & shorts comprised 27.65 per cent of all apparel imports worth $9.755 billion during January-March. T-shirts was the second largest product 13.19 per cent share in total imports.

Germany’s import of trousers & shorts was valued at $2.697 billion (27.65%) during the first quarter of 2022, while T-shirts import was $1.287 billion (13.19%) during the same period, according to Fibre2Fashion’s market insight tool TexPro. Therefore, the combined import of trousers & shorts and T-shirts was around 40 per cent of the total.

Among other products, Germany’s import of jerseys was valued at $1.215 billion (12.46%), shirts $847.579 million (8.69%), dresses $644.264 million (6.60%), innerwear $515.516 million (5.28%), jackets & blazers $371.452 (3.81%), socks $328.487 million (3.37%), coats $303.761 million (3.11%), accessories $230.369 million (2.36%) and baby wear $197.984 million (2.03%), as per Texpro.

In the first three months of 2021, Germany’s imports of trousers & shorts were valued at $2.444 billion (25.63%), whereas T-shirts import was $1.150 billion (12.07%). Thus, the combined import of trousers & shorts and T-shirts was around 37.70 per cent of the total import of $9.537 billion during the 3-month period.

Germany’s total apparel import stood at $39.913 billion during January-December 2021. Of this, trousers & shorts accounted for $9.576 billion (23.99%), jerseys $5.515 billion (13.82%) and T-shirts $4.396 billion (11.02%).