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Wednesday, 24 April 2013 |
 Last month, Turkey entered a period in which it will renegotiate the Customs Union. With the Customs Union signed in 1996 with the EU, Turkey became strong enough to compete with the world and earned a reputation for quality. This is a fact. However, the visas, transit documents, quotas and barriers that have been erected in spite of the customs union we joined without EU membership have brought this partnership into question. The most damaging effect of the Customs Union agreement on the Turkish industrialist has been the free trade agreements (FTA) that the EU has made with other countries because Turkey is forced to comply with these agreements even though it is not involved in the decision-making process. This is the injustice that lies at the heart of the "hypocritical EU" expression that Minister of Economy Zafer Çağlayan uses at every opportunity. While it is possible for countries that sign FTAs with the EU to export duty-free to Turkey because of the EU, they can continue to impose customs duties on Turkey. The EU has made these agreements with many countries to date, and most are still on being negotiated. Most recently, the USA was added to the list of countries with which the EU is negotiating a free trade agreement. Should the EU sign an FTA with the USA, America will sell goods to Turkey without any customs duty, but will continue to apply customs duties to us. This latest development is the straw that broke the camel's back in EU-Turkish relations and has sparked the "Let's-leave-the-customs-union" debate. In fact, this was followed immediately by strong statements from both the government and the business community. The person who lit the fuse in this debate was Minister of Economy Zafer Çağlayan, who had previously said, "We could put the Customs Union on the negotiating table." This time he drew a line in the sand and told the EU, "Either eliminate visas and the product quotas and include us in the free trade agreements with other countries, or we'll leave the Customs Union and you can conclude a free trade agreement with us." |
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Wednesday, 24 April 2013 |
 Istanbul hosted two important events in March. This year the world-renowned fashion-week management company IMG organized Istanbul Fashion Week (IFW) for the first time and put on a five-day feast of fashion. This year the event was held on March 12-16 at Antrepo 3 and featured important new changes. First of all, the name of the fashion week was changed because Mercedes-Benz became the official sponsor. The new name is Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Istanbul, but the most important changes were the modified catwalk area, the modular designer workshop and the 'Studio' presentation areas, which are an alternative to the fashion parade. The Studios are areas outside of the traditional catwalk so that designers can make presentations to promote their collections, hold press conferences, and organize sector panels and other fashion activities. They certainly added color to IFW. Another event held in Istanbul was the Texbridge Istanbul Textile and Accessories Fair that took place on March 15-18, 2013. Buyers from around the world came to the Texbridge Trade Show, which attracted 14,540 professional visitors this year. Three thousand of the visitors were international buyers from primarily USA, Russia, Canada, Germany, Iraq, Tunisia, Nigeria and Israel. |
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Wednesday, 24 April 2013 |
 The 7th DTB (Dialog Textil-Bekleidung) Sourcing Convention was held this year in Düsseldorf, Germany on March 6, 2013 in close cooperation with the Dutch Apparel Association MODINT. The country spotlight at the DTB/MODINT Sourcing Convention was on Turkey this time. The German textile and apparel suppliers (DTB) invited Muharrem Hilmi Kayhan, the Vice Chairman of the Sòktas Board of Directors and the Vice President of the Turkish Textile Employers' Association to give a firsthand insight into the Turkish textile and apparel sector, because next to Bangladesh, Turkey has been one of the main beneficiaries of attracting sourcing volumes that left China. At the convention, Muharrem H. Kayhan gave a presentation that described the strengths of the Turkish textile and ready-made apparel industry, its modern production capacity, its significant share of the national economy, and its position in the international market, highlighting the competitive advantages of the Turkish textile and ready-made apparel sector in the international supply chain. Robin Anson, editor of Textile Intelligence Outlook, also gave a presentation on "Macro Trends in the Global Apparel Industry" at the convention. In his remarks, Robin Anson explained the impact of the global economic conditions on the industry and the trends in the global fiber, textile and apparel industry. |
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Wednesday, 24 April 2013 |
 Bursa makes a significant contribution to the Turkish textile sector due to the production of both yarn and fabric, and it reflects its manufacturing strength on its brands as well. Of the 250 large companies currently located in Bursa, 57 of them are textile and ready-made apparel companies. Actors in the sector attribute this to not only branding but to its unceasing investment offensive, and all agree that Bursa will be the driving force behind the Turkish textile sector in terms of production in coming years. When the members of the Bursa Chamber of Trade and Industry (BTSO) are examined by sectoral distribution, we see that the textile and apparel sector is number one with 16.9% share. With their investments in the sector, the approximately 4,200 BTSO members provide employment for more than 78,000 people in Bursa. In 2011, the automotive and supply industry was the largest sector with 65 out of 250 large corporations, but textile and ready-made apparel companies ranked second with 57 companies. In addition, the export of textile and ready-made apparel manufactured in Bursa reached 1.6 billion dollars in 2012 according to data from the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM). In his assessment of how far the sector has come, Bursa Chamber of Industry and Commerce (BTSO) President Celal Sönmez explained that they had begun to play an important role, particularly in household textiles. |
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Thursday, 21 March 2013 |
 The Textile Employers' Magazine made a research on the price increases in the textile and readymade clothing sector in the last decade the results of which revealed that the prices in readymade clothing have succumbed to inflation rates. According to the calculation made in the light of the ConsumerPri-ce Index data declared by the Turkish Statistics Institute, the decadal inflation rate is 128 percent whereas the decadal inflation rate in the textile and readymade clothing sector remained 45 percent which indicates that price increases in readymade clothing experienced an actual loss of 83 points against the general inflation rate of 128 percent. The greatest loss on a product basis occurred in children's sweaters within the past decade. The inflation rate in children's sweaters within this period was merely 8.72 percent which led to an actual loss of above 119 percent. In other words, if the price of children's sweaters had risen in parallel to the inflation rates, then said price would have amounted to TRY 55 today instead of the current price of TRY 26 as declared by the Turkish Statistics Institute predicated as TRY 24.13 in 2003. The large-scale price reductions in readymade clothing contributed a great deal to the inflation rates navigating around 7 percent. As it is well known, following the declaration of inflation data, the textile and readymade clothing sector was from time to time becoming a matter of debate and even blamed. Yet the latest data once again proves that the blame of inflation should be put on other items. |
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Thursday, 21 March 2013 |
 The EU and the US which together make up 47 percent of the global economy, are now getting ready for free trade. The free trade agreement mentioned by the US resident Barack Obama in his latest State of the Union Address is aimed to be concluded within 2 years. If the EU and the US sign a free trade agreement (FTA), how will this affect Turkey? There is only one answer to this question today: "It will have disastrous consequences," because if the EU and the US sign an FTA, Turkey will have to comply with it in accordance with the Customs Union which will lead to customs-free entry of iPhones and iPads to Turkey whereas our own products will remain to be subject to duties. Therefore all sectors in Turkey today insist on the same point that while the US and the EU continue their negotiations on free trade, Turkey should simultaneously start FTA negotiations with the US. Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan made an advance warning in this regard stating that they, too wish to participate in the negotiations and said "Preparations should start immediately and we should work on the Congress." The Minister of Economy Zafer Çağlayan, on the other hand, indicated that a significant risk for Turkey will come into existence if these preparations do not commence. The business world is also in tune with the ministers. The President of the Turkish Exporters Assembly Mehmet Büyükekşi said "We should engage in concurrent negotiations and we will take action to this effect." The Chairman of Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association Muharrem Yılmaz stated that they shall make every effort in order to include Turkey into this agreement. |
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Thursday, 21 March 2013 |
 The textile and readymade clothing sector which succeeded in maintaining their exportation in 2012 despite Europe's gloomy economy, started the new year at a fast pace. The readymade clothing exports in January this year increased by 14.6 percent and reached 1 billion 406 million dollars whereas the textile exports increased by 17.1 percent and reached 684.7 million dollars, as a result of the revival in Europe. According to the experts in the sector, the main reason behind the Europe-based revival in exportation is the dynamism that started in the retail sector together with the harsh winter conditions. Other reasons for the upturn in exportation are the exchange parity and the reluctance of European importers to undertake inventory costs. Accordingly, European buyers resorted to orders with short deadlines which made Turkey the first choice. This led to the textile and readymade clothing sector which closed 2012 with a total of 23.9 billion dollars worth of exportation, a rate slightly under the 2011 numbers, to enter 2013 with an outstanding move in exportation. The exportation in the textile and readymade clothing sector increased more than about 2.5 folds higher than the average in general exports of Turkey in January. These favorable conditions in exportation have encouraged the textile and readyma-de clothing sector to target higher already. This favorable inclination of exportation experienced in the first month of the year was quite distinctly felt especially in cities such as Bursa and Denizli which are considered as the fortresses of the textile sector. A particularly remarkable success was the 36.1 percent increase in the textile and ready-made clothing exports from Denizli. |
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Thursday, 21 March 2013 |
 The Turkish textile businesspeople returned from the world's leading fabric sector fair Premiere Vision that took place in Paris on February 12-14, in a positive mood again. Particularly the customer profile of the fair was satisfying to the Turkish textile community which brought hope also for 2013. The representatives of our Association also attended the fair and visited the stands of the member companies in order to be informed on the new trends and trade potentials. The fair was attended by 734 companies worldwide which was 678 last year. At the Premiere Vision Fair adopting the slogan "Think global, act special" 10 members of our Association participated as exhibitors. Among 17 national and 68 individual Turkish exhibitors, the member companies of our Association were Akın Tekstil, Altınyıldız Mensucat, Bahariye Mensucat, Bossa, İpekiş Mensucat, Karma Kokteyl Örme, Söktaş, Tüp Merserize and Yünsa Yünlü Sanayi. |
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Monday, 17 December 2012 |
 The developments of recent years are heartening after the long period where everyone was lamenting over the death of textiles and ready-to-wear clothing. The textiles sector, with its many applications—from human heart membranes to artificial pancreases, from aviation to wind energy plants-has become a locomotive in exporting and employment, indeed breathing life into Turkey. The determination of the textile manufacturers who went on with their production despite the repeated rhetoric of "Turkey should bow out of textiles," along with the government's move to impose an additional tax were the major contributors to the trend of improvement. In the 11 months after the introduction of the additional tax in July 2011, close to 4000 new ready-made clothing enterprises and 1500 new textile businesses were launched. |
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Monday, 17 December 2012 |
 "The Future of Technical Textiles Congress," which our Association organized together with Euratex, was held with the participation of about 300 local and foreign sector representatives at the Istanbul Ritz-Carlton Hotel on November 16, 2012. The Congress not only demonstrated the wide range of textile applications -from surgery to aviation and the construction sector- and how the sector would play more and more a role in people's lives, but it also reinforced the belief that "The future is in Textiles." As part of the Congress as well, the winning finalists in the Innovation Contest organized by the Turkish Textile Employers' Association received their awards. The Contest was open to the textile sector and related universities to promote innovative, differentiated, original projects adapted to innovative products and to support already existing developed projects. The winner of the contest was the SAN-TEZ Project titled,"Design and Manufacture of a Prototype Textile Flocking Machine and the Production of Flocked Fibers," prepared by a team headed by Prof.Dr. Özcan Özdemir of Uludağ University, Engineering-Architecture Faculty, Department of Textile Engineering. Speaking at the Congress, the President of our Association, Ha-lit Narin, said that he promised that the Association would finance the projects of students and faculty members. |
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Monday, 17 December 2012 |
 The Annual meeting for 2012 of the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) was held on November 4-6, 2012 in Hanoi. Hosted by the Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group (VINATEX), the main topic of the congress was "Challenges of the Global Textile Sector Today and in the Future." The Congress enjoyed the participation of representatives from the world's leading textile countries. Our Association was represented by a delegation headed by Halit Narin. The main trends affecting the global ready-made clothing market were discussed at the congress and it was stated that the expenditure of developing countries on ready-to-wear apparel would exhibit a larger increase in the coming years compared to developed countries. It was also emphasized that Internet sales were steadily growing. |
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Monday, 17 December 2012 |
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METEM, the Çerkezköy Occupational and Technical Training Center, which was brought to life through the cooperation of the Turkish Textile Employers' Association and the Turkish Textile Foundation, signed its name to another international achievement. The project prepared by Çerkezköy METEM, titled "Mecatronic Systems in Electronic Circular Knitting Machines" was found worthy of an EU sponsorship. Of the total of 2261 project proposals submitted to the EU, 2057 fulfilled the evaluation criteria. Çerkezköy METEM's 320 project proposals were accepted for sponsorship by the EU. As part of the project, 30 students and 4 of theirinstructors will be traveling to Austria and Denmark for training.
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Monday, 17 December 2012 |
 The Turkish Textile Employers' Association promoted Turkish cloth dolls at the meeting of the Association of European Toys and Children's Museums (TOYCO). Led by Sunay Akın, the public personality who started the Istanbul Toy Museum, the toy manufacturers and children's museums of Europe met together in Istanbul under the sponsorship of the Association. It was decided that the figure in Turkish mythology known as "Kübey Hatun," the protector of childbearing mothers and their children, would be selected as the symbol of the meeting. November 20, the last day of the meeting, was World Children's Rights Day and this was commemorated with an Association-sponsored closing dinner at Esma Sultan Yalısı. Minister of Culture and Tourism Ertuğrul Günay was present at the evening's event. Meanwhile, Kübey Hatun cloth dolls were given to foreign guests as gifts during the meetings, giving the participants the opportunity to get a close impression of Turkey's cloth doll culture. |
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Thursday, 11 October 2012 |
 The world denim wear trade figure surpassed 90 billion dollars in 2011. This figure is expected to exceed 100 billion dollars in 2015. Which markets, then, are the ones that will ensure a share of the pie and what kind of a sales strategy should be followed? Which markets will exhibit a change in consumer trends? And which markets promise a future? The answers to all of these questions were set out in a survey that was published last month. According to the report of the iTKiB [Associations of Textiles and Apparel Exporters] General Secretariat on "Statistical Information on Denim Fabrics and Apparel Foreign Trade and a Look at the World Denim Trousers Market", Turkey is one of the bigger players in the world denim sector, with a market share of 9 percent in denim fabrics and 5 percent in denim apparel. In the world denim sector, mainly developing countries are expected to be the center of the world denim market in the next five years. The report, which includes also Euromonitor International's "Global Denim Trends" survey, asserts that denim trousers, despite their durability, will continue to be the type of clothing that will be discarded before they wear out. |
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Thursday, 11 October 2012 |
 Becoming wealthier every day, Ethiopia is becoming a new investment base for Turkish entrepreneurs. As part of Turkey's strategy in recent years to open out into new export markets, Turkish businesspeople have discovered Ethiopia, and today, close to 300 Turkish investors are active in this market. Among the companies operating in Ethiopia are Narin Örme, Saygın Tekstil, Ayka Addis Tekstil, Else Tekstil, Ahmet Aydeniz İnşaat, Tümaş, Akgün İnşaat, Deniz İnşaat, Oyap Ethio Endüstri, Ata Ray, Çinisan, Hamidiye Su, Assan Food, Fatih Medikal, Tekron Alüminyum, Akşeker, and Karadiş Tour. Many other companies are preparing to invest. Indeed, Turkish textile manufacturers have the biggest investments in this country, which has a population of 80 million. Ayka Tekstil is the company that has the largest textile investment in Ethiopia, for which there is an opportunity of quota-free exports to the U.S. As one of Turkey's leading yarn manufacturers, |
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