Textile Machinery manufacturers are experiencing the shock that has seen in the annual export during pandemic. In the Tüik official data (Turkey Statistical Institute) in the January-October period of 2019, the manufacturers who were selling 541 747 938 dollars’ worth of product, has experienced a sharp drop in the same period of 2020, with USD 389 309 687 by 39 per cent. Turkish textile sector have taken from the disastrous trend with the support of the Turkish textile industrialists, a sector experiencing an export loss of more than $ 151 million in the first nine months. Textile machinery manufacturers’ export market has also effected from the pandemic with the borders closing and with the panic spreading in foreign markets. Besides, the progress in textile imports field has also accelerated.
Textile Machinery Imports Increased by 37%
Turkish textile manufacturers continued their investments without slowing down during the pandemic period. They both increased their machinery orders from domestic producers who were in a stagnant period in exports and realized their new investments with textile machinery imports. As a result of the new investments, textile machinery imports increased by 37.1% in the first nine months of 2020 to over $ 1 billion. It is a not missed indicator that imported machines are on the rise again after the big drop last year. One of the most discrete data on Tüik report is that the export of dyeing and finishing machines, which are the most important export items of Turkish manufacturers, is on a downward trend and the imports have increased significantly in the same. On the other hand, another remarkable point is the 121% record increase in imports of weaving machines. The most useful data we have obtained from the data of Tüik is the fact that European-based machinery manufacturers are losing power gradually in the Turkish textile market and are starting to leave the market to Far Eastern manufacturers. Turkey textile machinery imports increasing whereas European machinery manufacturer and their sales activities in the Turkish market decreasing.
Knitting Machine Imports Increased by 55%
Textile and confectionery machinery and its components are defined over the years within the framework of the Customs Tariff Statistics Position Chart (GTIP). The technologies related to the textile and confectionary industries, enumerated with the Standard International Trade Classification in GTIP, are listed in detail. According to TURKSTAT data, Turkish textile machinery manufacturers showed an average decrease of 39 percent in the January-September period of 2020, while the most exports were in the washing, cleaning, drying, ironing, wrapping, folding etc. of woven yarns, fabrics with 317,878,578 dollars .Again, in the same, there was a decrease of around 100 million dollars compared to the same period of last year. Most of the imports are knitting looms, classified with 8447 HS Code, and machinery and various devices for the production of gripe, tulle, lace, net.
Our Imports Decreased in Our Exports
In the GTIP, there are machines used for drawing and texturing synthetic or artificial materials suitable for weaving under the name of machines that produce, weave and cut fibers in textile materials with the number 8444. It is seen that the export of this machine item was 641,121 dollars in the first nine months of 2020. In the same period of 2019, it is 1.659.876 dollars. Our imports, which were 114.101.841 dollars, decreased to 67.358.289 Dollars.
Spinning Machine Imports Increased by 87%
In textile machinery exports, it seems that the export figures of the machines for the treatment of fibers identified with the GTIP number 8445 adding to the machinery for the manufacture and treat the yarn, have decreased by half compared to 2019. The sales, which were 31,277,423 dollars in the first nine months of 2019, increased to 11,402,288 dollars in the same period of 2020. The first nine months of 2019, which was 102.381.955 dollars in the imports of spinning machines classified with the GTIP 8445 number, increased by 87.3% in the same period of 2020 to 191.790.325 dollars.
Weaving Machine Imports Increased by 121%
The products included in the export item with HS Code number 8446, are weaving looms, and listed as follows; weaving machines fabric width <30 cm, motorized shuttle weaving machines fabric width> 30 cm. While the export figures of these machines were 19,330,997 dollars in January-September 2019, their figures have decreased to 11,402,288 dollars in the same period of 2020. The most remarkable increase in import figures was noted at the time. Our imports, which were recorded as 68.265.146 dollars in the first nine months of 2019, have increased by 121% to 151.197.308 dollars.
There Is an Increase in the Imports of Knitting Machines
Specified with the number 8447 of the HS Code in GTIP list; Knitting looms, gripür, lace, ruching and for the mesh fabrication, a range of machine and devices forming other category of the sector for the textile export sector. The code numbers for these devices and their head parts; Spherical needle home type circular knitting machines cylinder diameter <165mm, spherical needle industrial circular knitting machines cylinder diameter <165mm, spherical needle home type circular knitting machines cylinder diameter> 165mm , home type flat knitting machines, industrial type flat knitting machines, home type tricot and sewing machines, industrial type tricot and sewing machines, processing machines, machines which are producing strip and gimbal and other tulle and lace machines . While the export figures of these items were 15,155,682 Dollars in January-September last year, it is seen as 6,269,232 dollars in the same period this year. Our imports for the first nine months of 2019, which were 107,025,553 dollars, increased by 83% in the same period this year to 195,568,578 dollars.
Imports at the Same Level in Rapier and Jacquard Machines
The list includes rapiers and jacquards with number 8448, and with machines reducing jacquard, duplicating, piercing or combining them, auxiliary machines for spinning machines to weave yarns, production nozzles, other auxiliary and parts and parts of machines for textile fiber preparation and spindles for weaving fiber producing machines. There is also a decrease in the group. While the export figures of these machines were determined as 23,563,010 dollars in the period of January-September 2019, it was recorded that they decreased to 18,535,517 dollars in the same period of 2020. There was no significant decrease in the import of the same products. The data compiled last year, recorded as 105,893,020, decreased by 3% to $ 103,083,140.
The Exports of HS Code 8449 Machines Decreased
It is stated that in the group of auxiliary and parts and parts of machines manufacturing felt, which takes place with the number 8449 in the HS Code, export items are at the lowest level. In this area, it is stated that in the January-October period of 2019, 2,271,795 dollars were exported and in 2020, 1,568,791 dollars were exported. The downward trend in exports seems to have continued in imports as well. The import data of the first nine months of 2019, which was 89.978.486 dollars, was realized as 61.147.432 Dollars in 2020.
Seeming Data on Washing Machines
The product range of machines and devices for washing, drying, and ironing of textile materials is defined by the number of GTIP 8451. Dry cleaning machines, household dryers, ironing machines and persler, washing machines used in industry, bleaching machines, dyeing machines, finishing and end processing machines, auxiliary and parts of dry cleaning machines, auxiliary and parts of other fabric machines, machines for winding fabric in rolls. , dry laundry containers <10 kg, other dryers dry laundry containers <10 kg, machines for cutting fabrics into shape, machines for unrolling, folding, cutting fabrics, Linoleum etc. fabric and so on. Pastry coating machines are the subtitles of this segment. In this group, which has the highest export figure, an export figure of 414.150.226 dollars is seen only in January-September 2019. In the same period of 2020, exports decreased by 23.25% and attracted attention as 317,878,578 dollars. Imported machines, which tend to decrease in washing machines every year with the effect of Turkish production machines, have reached 160,556,949 dollars with an incredible increase of 79% in the first nine months of this year. The imports of machines with GTIP number 8451 in the first nine months of 2019 were 89,667,780 dollars.
The item number 8452, which represents the last product group listed in the GTIP, includes textile machinery and equipment, furniture, needles and accessories. In this number, it is emphasized that the export figure, which was 34,338,929 dollars in the first nine months of 2019, decreased by 37% in the same period of 2020 to 21,611,872 dollars. In this item, in which our imports increased while exports were decreasing, the import was realized as 67.604.629 dollars in the first nine months of 2019 and 90.849.968 Dollars in 2020 with an increase of 35%.
