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Textiles and Clothing in Eastern Europe: Market at a Crossroads

Published in October 1991

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1.1 Country data: land area, population and share employed in industry, 1989
3.1 Estimates of GNP 1990
3.2 Growth in net material product, 1981-90
3.3 Proportion of employees by sector, 1987
3.4 Selected output data for industry and agriculture, 1987-88
3.5 Selected efficiency indicators in industry, 1981-89
3.6 Exports from Comecon countries, 1987
3.7 Distribution of CMEA exports by commodity group, 1987
3.8 Imports into Comecon countries, 1987
3.9 Debt in Eastern Europe, 1989
3.10 Exchange rates, 1989-90
3.11 Exchange rates, 1991
4.1 Shares of the East European textile and clothing industries in gross industrial output, 1988
4.2 Change in gross output in the East European Textile and clothing industries, 1970-88
4.3 Soviet and world cotton production, 1980/81-1990/91
4.4 Production of bast flax in Eastern Europe, 1985-87
4.5 Bast hemp production in Eastern Europe, 1985-87
4.6 East European production of raw wool, 1985-87
4.7 Man-made fibre production in Eastern Europe, 1985-97
4.8 East European cotton industry capacities, 1989
4.9 Distribution of the world's loom stock by region, 1989
4.10 Mill consumption of textile fibres in European CMEA, countries, 1987
4.11 East European trade balances in textiles and clothing, 1987
4.12 Fibre consumption, foreign trade and domestic consumption by fibre type, East European countries, 1987
4.13 OECD textile and clothing imports from the CMEA region, 1975-87
4.14 Ranking of CMEA countries according to fibre consumption and exports to the OECD, 1987
4.15 OECD total textile and clothing imports from selected developing countries, 1975 and 1987
5.1 Bulgaria's exports by main category, 1987
5.2 Share of Bulgaria's textile and clothing industries in the value of gross industrial output, 1970-88
5.3 Change in gross output of Bulgarian textile and clothing industries, 1970-89
5.4 Output of selected goods in the Bulgarian textile and clothing industries, 1970-89
5.5 Fibres consumed by the Bulgarian textile industry, 1985 and 1990
5.6 Quantity of yarn used in Bulgaria per m2 of grey cloth, 1970-88
5.7 Bulgarian production of cotton, 1970-89
5.8 Bulgarian wool production, 1970-88
5.9 Production of man-made fibres in Bulgaria, 1970-89
5.10 Stock of fixed capital in the Bulgarian textile and clothing industries, Dec 31, 1980 and 1988
5.11 Indices of investments in the Bulgarian textile and clothing industries, 1985-90
5.12 Average number of shifts worked in the Bulgarian textile and clothing industries, 1970-88
5.13 Bulgarian spinning and weaving output and productivity, 1970-88
5.14 Number of employees in the Bulgarian textile and clothing industry, 1980-89
5.15 Distribution of manufacturing costs in Bulgaria, 1980-89
5.16 Bulgarian retail sales of selected goods, 1970-89
5.17 Exports of the Bulgarian textile and clothing industries, 1980-89
5.18 Bulgarian exports of selected products by volume, 1980-89
6.1 Percentage shares of consumption and accumulation in Czechoslovakian distributed national income, 1970-89
6.2 Change in Czechoslovakia's net material product, 1983-91
6.3 Shares of individual sectors in Czechoslovakia's net material product, 1970-89
6.4 Czechoslovakian employment by sector, 1970-88
6.5 Share of the Czechoslovakian textile and clothing industries in industrial production value, 1970-88
6.6 Growth of Czechoslovakian industrial production, 1960-88
6.7 Change in Czechoslovakia's gross industrial output, 1971-91
6.8 Size distribution of Czechoslovakian companies by number of employees, 1988
6.9 Czechoslovakian imports of the main fibre types, 1970-89
6.10 man-made fibre production per head in selected countries, 1970 and 1988
6.11 Imports of the main basic materials of the Czechoslovakian textile industry, 1975-88
6.12 Trends in investment in the Czechoslovakian textile industry, 1980-88
6.13 Investment in the Czechoslovakian textile and clothing industries, 1970-89
6.14 machinery installed in the Czechoslovakian cotton textile industry, 1976-87
6.15 Average number of shifts worked in the Czechoslovakian textile and clothing industries, 1980-88
6.16 numbers employed in the Czechoslovakian textile and clothing industries, 1960-89
6.17 Average wages in the Czechoslovakian textile and clothing industries, 1980-89
6.18 Productivity in the Czechoslovakian textile and clothing industries, 1980-89
6.19 Output of the Czechoslovakian textile industry by main products, 1970-89
6.20 Value of domestic consumption in Czechoslovakia, 1975-89
6.21 Sales of main clothing products in the Czechoslovakian domestic market and their share in total domestic consumption, 1975-89
6.22 Leading Czechoslovakian textile and clothing imports, 1975-88
6.23 Czechoslovakia's main textile and clothing exports by product, 1980-88
6.24 Czechoslovakian foreign trade in textiles and clothing by export destination and import source, 1980
6.25 Trends in Czechoslovakian textile and clothing trade, 1980-88
6.26 Czechoslovakian textile and clothing exports to selected OECD countries, 1987-88
7.1 East German production of selected textile and clothing products, 1955-89
7.2 Share of the textile and clothing industries in total East German industrial output, 1982-89
7.3 Relative growth in the East German textile industry, 1981-89
7.4 Output of selected products in the East German textile and clothing industries, 1980-89
7.5 East German imports of selected natural fibres, 1960-89
7.6 East German production of man-made fibres, 1960-89
7.7 Sources and consumption of man-made fibres in East Germany, 1987
7.8 East German man-made fibre companies and products, 1990
7.9 Capital investment in East Germany's textile industry, 1970-89
7.10 Structure of investment in the East German textile industry, 1986-88
7.11 Production of spinning and weaving machines in East Germany, 1950-89
7.12 Average employment in East Germany's textile and clothing industries, 1970-89
7.13 Number of shifts worked in the East German textile industry, 1985-88
7.14 Productivity trends in the East German textile and clothing industries, 1981-89
7.15 Monthly earnings in the East German textile industry, 1982-89
7.16 East German retail trade in textiles and clothing by groups of products, 1980-88
7.17 Expenditure by East German households on textiles and clothing as a proportion of total consumption, 1960-89
7.18 East German domestic retail sales of selected articles, 1970-88
7.19 East German exports and imports of selected goods, 1970-88
8.1 Structure of Hungary's imports by commodity, 1988
8.2 Structure of Hungary's exports by commodity, 1988
8.3 Hungary's main trading partners, 1988
8.4 Shares of Hungary's gross production by industry sector, 1989
8.5 Trends in gross production value in the Hungarian textile and clothing industries, 1960-85
8.6 Output of the Hungarian textile and clothing industry by selected items, 1938-90
8.7 Annual changes in Hungarian textile and clothing production, 1986-90
8.8 Share of textiles and clothing in Hungary's manufacturing output, 1960-89
8.9 Shares by sector of output and employment in Hungary's textile industry, 1960-89
8.10 Company and plant structure in Hungary's textile and clothing industries, 1988
8.11 The role of industrial cooperatives in the Hungarian textile and clothing industries, 1988
8.12 Trends in Hungarian textile and clothing production by main products, 1980-89
8.13 man-made fibre consumption trends in Hungary's textile industry, 1970-88
8.14 materials consumption in the Hungarian textile and clothing industries, 1988
8.15 Hungarian imports of textile raw materials, 1980-89
8.16 Use of modern technologies in Hungary's spinning weaving sectors, 1960-88
8.17 Trends in the number of manual employees in the Hungarian textile and clothing industries, 1960-89
8.18 Average monthly earnings of manual workers in Hungary's textile and clothing industries, 1988
8.19 Indices of production value per employee in the Hungarian textile and clothing industries, 1989
8.20 Distribution of profit by sector in the Hungarian textile and clothing industries, 1988
8.21 Price changes in Hungarian textiles and clothing, 1987-91
8.22 Structure of sales by the Hungarian textile and clothing industries, 1988
8.23 Share of clothing in Hungarian textile and clothing industries, 1988
8.24 Retail price increases in Hungary, 1985-89
8.25 Number of private retail clothing outlets in Hungary, 1970-89
8.26 Hungarian imports of main ready-to-wear clothing products, 1980-89
8.27 Estimated average shares of imports in Hungarian retail sales, 1986-88
8.28 Hungary's textile and clothing trade by main markets and sources, 1988
8.29 Structure of Hungary's textile and clothing exports by product, 1980-89
8.30 Hungary's main textile and clothing export markets by product, 1988-89
8.31 International production cooperation agreements with Hungarian textile and clothing firms, 1988
8.32 1991 advertisement by Hungarian textile and clothing companies seeking partnerships with western firms
8.33 Ownership structure of Styl Rt, 1991
9.1 Gross industrial production in Poland's state and cooperative sectors, 1950-88
9.2 Aggregate structure of the Polish economy, 1978 and 1988
9.3 Employment structure in Poland, 1980 and 1988
9.4 Structure of Poland's imports and exports, 1988
9.5 Poland's changing trade partners, 1981 and 1988
9.6 Polish spinning and weaving capacities, 1936-60
9.7 Polish production of main textile products and consumption of fabric in clothing, 1937-60
9.8 Polish production of main textile products and consumption of fabric in clothing, 1970
9.9 Polish textile and clothing exports, 1960 and 1970
9.10 Annual average growth in the Polish textile and clothing industries, 1976-88
9.11 Output of the Polish textile and clothing industries by main products, 1979-89
9.12 Structure of the Polish textile and clothing industries, 1988
9.13 Fibre demand in the Polish textile industry, 1985 and 1990
9.14 Fibre production in Poland, 1979-89
9.15 Polish foreign trade in man-made fibres, 1985 and 1988
9.16 Synthetic dyestuffs produced in Poland, 1970-89
9.17 Poland's foreign trade in dyestuffs, 1985 and 1988
9.18 Poland's main textile import items, 1988
9.19 Investments in the Polish textile and clothing industries, 1970-89
9.20 Gross value of fixed assets in the Polish textile and clothing industries, 1985 and 1988
9.21 Share of buildings and machinery in total investment in the Polish textile clothing industries, 1987-89
9.22 Employment in the Polish textile and clothing industries, 1985-89
9.23 Number of shifts worked in the Polish textile industry, 1970 and 1988
9.24 Share of material costs in total costs in Poland's textile and clothing industries, 1988
9.25 Production of cotton yarn per machine hour in the Polish textile industry, 1970-88
9.26 Average yarn counts in the Polish textile industry, 1970-88
9.27 Productivity in the Polish fabric manufacturing sector, 1970-88
9.28 Shares of individual product groups in Polish retail trade, 1970-89
9.29 Shares of spending on clothing and footwear in different types of Polish households, 1985 and 1988
9.30 Textiles' share in total exports and imports at current prices, 1981-88
9.31 Polish exports and imports of textile and clothing products, 1980-88
9.32 Polish exports of selected textile and clothing goods, 1988
9.33 Leading markets for Poland's textile and clothing exports, 1988
9.34 Shares by country of Polish joint ventures, Mar 31, 1990
10.1 Sources of Romania's net material product, 1980 and 1987
10.2 Growth and share of the Romanian textile and clothing industries, 1965-88
10.3 Production in Romania of main textile and clothing products, 1970-89
10.4 Trends in Romanian production of man-made fibres, 1970-87
10.5 Investments in the Romanian textile and clothing industries, 1970-87
10.6 Fixed assets in Romania's textile and clothing industries, 1988
10.7 Shares of open end rotors and shuttleless weaving machines in Romania's cotton textile industry, 1976-87
10.8 Employment in Romania's textile and clothing industries, 1970-85
10.9 Trends in labour productivity in Romania's textile and clothing industries, 1980-88
10.10 Trends in retail sales in Romania, 1971-85
10.11 Indices of consumer prices in Romania, 1975-85
10.12 Romanian retail trade in textile industry products, 1970 and 1980
10.13 Main export items of the Romanian textile and clothing industries, 1970-85
10.14 Exports to Western markets of selected Romanian clothing items, 1987
10.15 Romania's textile and clothing exports to OECD countries, 1975-87
10.16 Shares by country of foreign capital in Romanian joint ventures, Apr 1 1991
11.1 Sectoral shares of Soviet net material product, 1989
11.2 Structure of Soviet industry by sector, 1989
11.3 Soviet exports of selected goods, 1989
11.4 Soviet imports of selected goods, 1989
11.5 The Soviet Union's share in world textile and clothing production, 1986
11.6 Soviet textile and clothing production, selected items, 1940-89
11.7 Soviet textile and clothing production indices by sector, 1985-88
11.8 Number of industrial companies in the Soviet textile industry, 1982-86
11.9 Share of Soviet cotton production used for domestic consumption, 1980/81-1988/89
11.10 Use of imported cotton in Soviet consumption, 1980/81-1988/89
11.11 Soviet wool and linen production, 1970-89
11.12 Soviet production of man-made fibres, 1985 and 1988
11.13 Soviet production of textile and clothing machinery and equipment, 1970-90
11.14 Production capacities in the Soviet textile industry, 1987
11.15 Fixed capital in the Soviet textile and clothing industries, 1985-89
11.16 Breakdown of fixed capital in the Soviet textile and clothing industries, 1989
11.17 Growth of fixed capital per employee in the Soviet textile and clothing industries, 1980-88
11.18 Costs of major repairs in the Soviet textile and clothing industries, 1985-89
11.19 Capital investments in the Soviet textile and clothing industries, 1970-89
11.20 Wear and tear in the Soviet textile and clothing industries, 1980 and 1989
11.21 Number of shifts worked in the Soviet textile industry, 1970-88
11.22 Machine productivity in the Soviet textile industry, 1970-88
11.23 Employment in Soviet industry by job level, 1960-85
11.24 Number of apprentices in the Soviet textile and clothing industries, 1980-88
11.25 Labour productivity in the Soviet textile and clothing industries. 1985-89
11.26 Average monthly wages of industrial employees in the Soviet textile and clothing industries, 1970-89
11.27 Cost breakdown in the Soviet textile and clothing industries, 1988
11.28 Soviet Union: retail sales of selected textile and clothing goods, 1970-89
11.29 Soviet Union: retail prices of selected textile and clothing items, 1970-89
11.30 Soviet exports and imports of textiles and textile industry equipment, 1960-88
11.31 Soviet trade in textiles and clothing with the EC, 1986-89
12.1 Eastern Europe's shares of EC and Efta textile imports, 1965-86
12.2 Specific import prices of textiles imported in bulk by West Germany, 1988
12.3 Specific import prices of made-up products imported in bulk by West Germany, 1988
12.4 Industrial hourly wages (including allowances), selected countries 1988
12.5 International labour cost comparisons in spinning and weaving, 1980-90
12.6 Factory production costs in the clothing industry, selected countries, 1990
12.7 EC customs tariffs applied to imports of textiles and clothing articles from Easter Europe, 1988
12.8 Estimated effects of trade liberalisation on EC imports of selected products from East and South European countries, 1980 and 1985
13.1 Fibre availability per head, 1975-87
14.1 Creditworthiness ratings of East European countries, 1990-91
14.2 Comparative investment climates in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland, 1991
14.3 Clothing in Eastern Europe: production and market potential
A.1 EC quotas restricting East European textile and clothing exports, 1991
A2 EC outward processing (OPT) quotas restricting East European textile and clothing exports, 1991
A3 Quotas under MFA bilateral agreements on exports of East European textiles and clothing to the USA, 1990-91