AMMAN — The Kingdom’s
garment imports rose by 22.7 percent in 2022 compared
to 2021, with the bulk of imported clothing coming from China, the Jordan News
Agency, Petra, reported.
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The
value of Jordan’s clothing imports in 2022 reached JD235 million, compared to
JD192 million in 2021, according to statistics issued by the
Textile and Readymade Clothes Syndicate.
Forty-one
percent of textile imports, at a value of JD97 million, came from China,
followed by Turkey at JD54 million, other non-Arab Asian countries at JD57
million, and Arab countries at JD17 million.
The
number of postal parcels entering the Kingdom also increased last year by 24
percent to reach a total of 1.196 million parcels, compared to 964,000 parcels
in 2021, according to data from the Jordan Customs Department.
Over
half of Jordan's apparel and footwear imports were shipped in parcels, said the
clothing syndicate’s president, Sutlan Allan. This negatively affected
traditional trade and forced merchants to pay high shipping costs, he said.
Allan
called for
reconsidering import regulations in terms of shipping by parcels,
lifting customs duties on garments, and reducing sales tax to 8 percent.
The
garment, footwear, and textile sector, the largest commercial industry in the
country, consists of about 11,000 establishments across Jordan employing 63,000
workers, the majority of whom are Jordanians, according to official statistics.
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