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Market Data

The numbers that move a textile quote.

Fibre, yarn, fabric, garment and home textile prices, trade flows, freight, duty and currencies. Every figure dated and linked to its source. Free.

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Cotlook A Index 91.45 c/lb Up 0.80c on the week
US cotton spun yarns 82.3 index Up 0.9% on the month
US apparel imports $74.7B Down 9.3% on the twelve months before
US home textile imports $13.87B Down 12.2% on the year
FBX global composite $3,357/FEU Up $13 against 9 October 2026
USD/INR 94.96 Down 1.77 on the week

One headline figure per desk, straight from the weekly report. Each carries its own period, so a month and a full year sit side by side here on purpose. The date behind every figure is on the weekly summary. Sources last read 17 October 2026.

Sources: Cotton Outlook, as printed in the USDA world market prices report; US BLS producer price index; UN Comtrade; Freightos Baltic Index (FBX), Freightos (opens in a new tab); European Central Bank.

The numbers

Three desks, split by what you buy

Each desk is a set of short pages, one topic each. Every figure is read from its official source on a stated schedule, dated, and linked to where it came from.

Loose raw cotton fibre lying beside cones of spun white cotton yarn on a blue background.

Raw materials numbers

Cotton and polyester prices, the balance sheet, yarn prices, trade flows, currencies and freight.
Sewing machine needle stitching a dark floral fabric under warm light.

Garments numbers

Prices by product, demand in the EU, UK, US and Gulf, trade flows and the landed cost of a shipment.
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Home textiles numbers

Bed linen, towels and rugs: prices by product, markets and duty, trade flows and freight.
One summary, every Monday

The weekly summary

The week's fibre, yarn, garment, home textile, freight and currency numbers, each carrying the source it was read from and the date. Read it on the page, have it by email every Monday, or take it as a plain text file. Free, and the whole issue is published before it is sent.

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The buying guides

The whole purchase, step by step

One guide per desk, in short pages: what happens, what it is called, and where buyers get caught.

Hands guiding tailoring shears through a length of grey suiting cloth.

Getting garments made

Fourteen steps, price to delivery Close-up of pale terry towelling showing its dense uncut loops.

Getting home textiles made

Sixteen steps, spec to delivery Bobbins of undyed white cotton yarn lined up on a spinning frame.

Buying fibre, yarn and fabric

Three lanes, one per material
The reference shelf

Duty, calculators, cases, calendar, glossary, sources

Reference home

Calculators

Costing tools and data files Stacked shipping containers on the deck of a cargo ship seen from above as it leaves a wake at sea.

Import duty

Rates into the EU, UK, US and Gulf

Glossary

Trade words in plain English Pressed cotton bales stacked in a yard, with raw white cotton lint bursting from the top bale.

Buying calendar

When to buy, month by month Plain brown cardboard cartons stacked in the corner of a warehouse room.

Case studies

Six landed costs worked in full Fabric inspection machine in a mill with a length of striped cloth drawn over its lit viewing table.

Sources

Where every number comes from
Not sure where to start?

Two questions

First: do you buy raw material or finished product? For fibre, yarn and fabric, start with the raw material guide. For garments, the garment guide, and for bed linen, towels or curtains, the home textile guide. Second: are you choosing a country, or costing an order you have already decided on? The duty page sets the markets side by side. The calculators and the six worked cases do the arithmetic, line by line, on numbers you can change.

Every table, chart, calculator, download and film in this half is listed once on the all data page. The whole site is on the site map.

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The week's numbers, each with its source and the date it was read. Read it on the page, take it by email every Monday, or download it as plain text. Free, and the whole issue is published before it is sent.

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