India’s textiles and apparel exports grew 3.37% to $9 billion in April-June 2025
India’s textiles and apparel (T&A) exports grew 3.37 percent to $9.082 billion during the first quarter of the current financial year 2025-26 (FY26). Out of the total exports, apparel exports grew 8.91 percent to $4.192 billion, while textile exports declined 0.94 percent to $4.889 billion in April-June 2025. This trend continued in June 2025 as well, where apparel and textile exports showed similar trends.
According to an analysis by the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI), India’s T&A exports grew 3.37 percent to $8.785 billion during the first three months of the previous fiscal year 2024-25. Apparel exports grew 8.91 per cent to $4.936 billion from $3.849 billion during the same period, while textile exports declined marginally from $4.936 billion.
In June 2025, apparel exports grew 1.23 per cent to $1.309 billion from $1.293 billion in June 2024, while textile exports declined 2.07 per cent to $1.591 billion from $1.625 billion.
According to the latest trade data released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the share of T&A in India's total merchandise exports rose to 8.10 per cent during April-June 2025 but declined to 8.26 per cent in June 2025.
In the textiles sector, exports of cotton yarn, fabrics, made-ups and handloom products declined by 1.94 per cent to $2.860 billion in the first three months of FY26. Exports of man-made yarn, fabrics and made-ups rose marginally by 0.11 per cent to $1,166.68 million, while carpet exports grew by 2.06 per cent to $370.85 million.
In June 2025, exports of cotton yarn, fabrics, made-ups and handloom products declined by 3.07 per cent to $930.30 million, while exports of man-made yarn, fabrics and made-ups fell by 2.56 per cent to $373.41 million. Carpet exports, however, rose by 2.04 per cent to $123.92 million.
Imports of raw cotton and waste rose 72.96 per cent to $262.92 million during April-June 2025, as against $152.01 million in the same period of the previous fiscal. Imports of textile yarn, fabric and made-ups rose 11.28 per cent to $619.95 million from $557.10 million. In June 2025, imports of raw cotton and waste rose 5 per cent to $73.73 million from $70.22 million. However, imports of textile yarn, fabric and made-ups declined 1.43 per cent to $206.13 million.
In FY 2025, the country's apparel exports grew 10.03 per cent to $15.989 billion, while textile exports rose 3.61 per cent to $20.617 billion. Imports of raw cotton and waste rose 103.67 per cent to $1.219 billion, and imports of textile yarn, fabric and made-ups rose 8.69 per cent to $2.476 billion.
In FY24, India's T&A exports stood at $34.430 billion, down 3.24 per cent from $35.581 billion in FY23. Imports of raw cotton and waste stood at $598.63 million in FY24, down 58.39 per cent from $1.439 billion in FY23. Imports of textile yarn, fabric and made-ups also declined 12.98 per cent to $2.277 billion.
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