Home textile market numbers, by product and by country
Five short pages in buying order: what is being bought and at what price, who supplies it and what the duty is, who trades it, what the box costs, and the country costs behind each origin.
Eight home textile categories, each with the countries that supply it, sitting beside what America and the rest of the world actually import, one short page a step. Home textiles behave differently from clothing at the border and in the mill, so the duty table and the dye lot minimum matter more here than the labour rate does. Every figure names its source and its date, and each page marks anywhere the arithmetic is ours rather than a published series. Read the note at the top of the products page before you quote anything from it, because it is the honest version of what these figures can and cannot do.
Next trade tables read Sat 14 Nov, 10:00 PKT
How to read this desk five stops, in buying order
Read these in this order
Five stops. Each opens the short page that holds its module, and each says what a reading you can ignore looks like next to one that deserves a second look.
- Start with your own product, not the category
39 home textile lines in 8 groups, each opening to the countries that ship it, with the value and the price per piece or per square metre.
No action needed when your product group is growing at roughly the rate of the total, and the country you buy from is holding its share of it.
Worth a second look when your own code falling while its group grows. That is share moving to somebody else, and in this trade it usually means a competitor has booked loom time you did not.
- Then look at who actually supplies this trade
The twelve largest suppliers of made up textiles to the United States, by value and by share in each of the last three full calendar years.
No action needed when the shares are moving slowly. Weaving and terry capacity takes years to install, so a settled table is the normal reading.
Worth a second look when a supplier gaining several points of share across the three years. That is nearly always somebody else losing rather than new capacity arriving, and the mills in the losing country get harder to buy from every season.
- Check the duty before you check the price
fifteen home textile lines with the rate the United States, Europe and Britain each charge, read from the published schedules with the tariff code on every figure.
No action needed when every line in your set falls under one code you have confirmed, and the rate is the same one your customs broker quotes back to you.
Worth a second look when a set that splits across chapters. A filled quilt sits in chapter 94 and its cover in chapter 63, at different rates, in the same carton. Read the whole set, not the headline product.
- Work out what the box actually costs
Container rates converted into cents per kilo at four realistic load weights, so a lane rate becomes a number you can put in a cost sheet.
No action needed when the composite is flat week to week and you are not shipping into a holiday peak.
Worth a second look when home textiles weighing out before they fill up. Towels and quilts are dense, so a container hits its weight limit with space left, which is the opposite of what happens with knitwear and changes which of the two numbers below actually binds you.
- Sanity check the country before you move an order
Wages, electricity, logistics performance and the tariff your goods pay into the US and the EU, for seven sourcing countries side by side.
No action needed when you are comparing countries on all of the inputs rather than on the quoted FOB alone.
Worth a second look when a headline saying one country is now cheaper. The panel deliberately refuses to publish a single ranking score, and it lists the six things it cannot measure.
Reference points, not advice. They describe what the numbers have done, and they do not know your quality, your terms or what you have already covered.
Two pages belong open beside this desk, because in home textiles the arithmetic finishes there rather than here: import duty by market, where a filled quilt and the cover that goes over it clear under different chapters at different rates in the same shipment, and the costing calculators, which turn a mill price into a landed one.
The five pages of this desk
In buying order. Each page carries its own tables and charts, with the explanation under every one, and the pages link to each other in sequence.
Products and prices
Every home textile line in eight groups, each opening to the countries that ship it and the price per piece or per square metre. Start here, and read the caveat first.
Markets and duty
The twelve countries that supply America, three years side by side, and the duty the United States, Europe and Britain each charge, read from the schedules.
Trade flows
The rest of the world a year at a time: home textile trade by country, the largest partners of Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, product by product, and India month by month.
Freight and landed cost
Freight as cents per kilo at the heavier load weights a dense cargo reaches, the South Asian lanes both ways, and the tools that give a live rate.
Origins and country costs
Wages, power, logistics and tariffs for seven sourcing countries side by side, each with its year. The panel behind any question about moving an order to another country.Every table and chart on this desk
One line each, in the order a buyer reads them. Each link opens the page that holds it.
- What is being bought, and from where Start here. Thirty nine lines in eight groups, each opening to the countries that ship it and the price they ship it at.
- Read this first What a unit price is here, why a sheet set counts as three pieces, and why the weight column is missing on purpose.
- Who supplies America The twelve largest suppliers of home textiles to the United States, with what each one held in every one of the last three full calendar years.
- The rest of the world, a year at a time Annual home textile trade for the countries that make towels, sheets and curtains and the three markets that buy most of them, biggest seller first. Customs headings 6301 to 6304 only, so second hand clothing in the same chapter cannot inflate a row.
- Who trades home textiles with whom The ten largest customers and the ten largest suppliers of Pakistan, India and Bangladesh for blankets, linen, curtains and furnishings, with value, share and dollars per kilogram where the weight was filed.
- Home textiles, product by product Headings 6301 to 6304 each on its own table, so bed and bath linen stands apart from blankets and window furnishings. Pakistan, India and Bangladesh first; Bangladesh counted by its trading partners.
- India, month by month The last twelve months India has filed for blankets, bed and bath linen, curtains, other furnishings and home textiles as a whole, sold out and bought in, with a chart of the exports.
- What the duty is Fifteen product lines with the rate the United States, Europe and Britain each charge, read from the published schedules rather than remembered.
- Container freight Box rates as cents per kilo. Home textiles are dense, so a container weighs out before it fills up, which is the opposite of apparel.
- Freight, South Asian lanes both ways What three carriers asked to move a box out of Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, how far that freight moved through the year, what the run back from Europe costs, and the surcharge on cloth and trim coming in from China. Dated carrier announcements, because no free freight index covers these lanes.
- In from China and the Far East The one China to South Asia number any carrier publishes, seven readings across five months, and the plain finding that nobody publishes the run home the other way.
- Where to get a live rate Seven carrier and marketplace rate tools, each marked with whether it hands you a number without an account. Tested by opening every one of them.
- Country costs Wages, power and tariffs by origin, each with its year, behind any question about moving an order to another country.
Cotton, briefly
Cotton reaches a bed sheet more slowly than it reaches a shirt, because the cloth is heavier and the order book is longer, but it reaches it harder: raw material is a larger share of a towel than of a t shirt. If a mill attributes an increase to cotton, the fibre page is where you check whether cotton actually did that, and by how much.
Common questions
What is chapter 63, and why does the page keep saying it?
It is the part of the customs tariff that covers made up textile articles, which is most of what this page is about: bed linen, towels, table linen, curtains and the rest. Trade statistics are published by chapter, so if you want to compare countries honestly you have to talk in the same units the statistics use.
Why is home textile duty so different from garment duty?
Because they sit in different chapters of the tariff and each market has treated them differently for decades. The rates, the exceptions and the rules of origin all diverge, and a rule that gives you a zero rate on a shirt may not touch a sheet. The duty page carries the actual rates market by market.
Why do home textile minimums depend on colour?
Because the constraint is the dye lot, not the sewing line. The smallest run is whatever fills a dye lot in one colour, and adding a colour adds a lot, which is why a home textile minimum is quoted per colour.
Can I quote a customer from these figures?
No. These are market wide figures for deciding where to ask. A quote needs your specification, your quantity, your route and your terms. Use the page to choose a direction, then send a brief and get real numbers back against it.