While there was an increase of 6.6 percent in exports of textile and raw materials, in August, especially home textile exports increased by 8.3 and knitted fabric exports by 5.3.
However, the most significant increase in 1 January-31 August period, exports of technical textiles, technical textiles from Turkey surpassed the total exports made in 2019, it was the year to reach $ 1.8 billion. The sector's exports for the last 12 months were worth of 2.3 billion dollars.
Ahmet Öksüz, President of Istanbul Textile Raw Materials Exporters Association, made a statement on the subject: "We exceeded the annual targeted export data with technical textile exports worth about 1.8 billion dollars in the January - August period. Our exports for the last 12 months were reached a value of 2.3 billion dollars. In this context, we increased the target and at the end of 2020, we are aiming for our exports to exceed 2.5 billion dollars and to further reach 3 billion dollars targeted export data by 2021. However, in order to reach our targets, the grant rates should be removed.
New Regulation Requirement for Exports of Personal Protection
Stating that export of masks have exceeded 10 billion euros in the last few months for the orders lodged from China by EU, and noted that Turkey was unsuccessful to settle a price for the market as a consequence of financial grants and said, "China controls all of the market. There is a grant contingent on the export of personal protective equipment products in Turkey However, the conditions for grant needs to be removed immediately. It will not matter to take out the grants once the demand for personal protective equipment products has reached saturation on a global scale. Grants must be taken away for personal protective equipment products.
