Cotton yarn prices by origin

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What the yarn costs

Official export unit values by origin, and the producer price for each spinning route. Between them they tell you whether a quoted increase matches what that family of yarn actually did.

Next trade tables read Sat 14 Nov, 10:00 PKT

Yarn, official statistics

Cotton yarn export prices by country

Cotton yarn (HS 5205) exports for 2025, the newest year all three origins have reported. The average value per kilo reflects each origin's product mix, counts, combed share and packing, as much as its price level, so compare trends rather than levels.

Cotton yarn exports of Pakistan, India and China for 2025: tonnes, value and average dollars per kilo.
Origin	Tonnes	Value	Avg USD/kg
Pakistan	259,237	$649M	2.50
India	1,081,969	$3,191M	2.95
China	219,632	$897M	4.08

What this means for the yarn export benchmark

What this is Cotton yarn exports under HS 5205 for Pakistan, India and China in the newest year all three have reported, with tonnes, value, and the average dollars per kilo we compute from those two.

How to read it One row per exporting country: how many tonnes of cotton yarn it shipped that year, what buyers paid for it in total (M is millions of dollars), and in the last column the average price per kilo, which is simply that value divided by those tonnes. The last column is the benchmark figure. Follow one origin's row from year to year rather than racing origins against each other, because each country ships a different mix of yarns.

What moves it Cotton cost is most of it. The remainder is the count range each country sells, the combed share, the packing, and the currency it prices in.

How to use it A level and direction check by origin before you open a quotation, and a way to see which origin has been getting dearer relative to the others.

The trap This averages everything a country shipped, so an origin selling more coarse carded yarn looks cheap when it is only selling a different product. Read one origin over time rather than one origin against another in a single year.

UN Comtrade, national statistics offices' own reporting. Read on 14 October 2026. This exact query in UN Comtrade (opens in a new tab)

Spinning routes

Yarn price trends by type

Producer prices for the three yarn families a buyer chooses between, plus the mill sector as a whole. Useful when a mill tells you a rise is 'the market': you can see whether that family actually moved, and by how much.

Cotton spun 101.0 +1.0% since Sept 24
Synthetic and other spun 101.6 +1.6% since Sept 24
Rayon, acetate, lyocell spun 104.5 +4.5% since Sept 24
Textured and twisted filament 111.0 +11.0% since Sept 24
All fibre, yarn and thread mills 108.5 +8.5% since Sept 24

Each line set to 100 in Sept 24, because these indexes are published against different base years and their raw levels cannot be compared. 24 months to August 2026.

Show the rebased monthly numbers

Period	Cotton spun	Synthetic and other spun	Rayon, acetate, lyocell spun	Textured and twisted filament	All fibre, yarn and thread mills
Sept 24	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Oct 24	97.7	98.5	100.0	99.5	99.3
Nov 24	97.7	98.5	100.0	99.3	99.2
Dec 24	97.9	99.4	100.0	101.0	100.0
Jan 25	97.9	99.4	100.0	101.2	100.1
Feb 25	97.9	99.4	100.0	100.5	99.8
Mar 25	97.9	99.4	100.0	101.4	100.3
Apr 25	97.9	99.5	100.2	101.0	100.1
May 25	97.9	99.5	100.2	102.2	101.0
Jun 25	97.9	99.5	100.2	104.1	101.9
Jul 25	97.9	99.5	100.2	104.4	102.0
Aug 25	97.9	99.8	100.2	103.6	101.7
Sept 25	97.9	99.8	100.2	103.2	101.5
Oct 25	97.9	100.0	103.1	103.6	101.8
Nov 25	97.9	100.0	103.1	105.3	102.6
Dec 25	97.9	100.0	103.1	105.0	102.4
Jan 26	97.9	100.0	103.1	105.0	102.4
Feb 26	97.9	100.0	100.2	105.5	102.5
Mar 26	97.9	100.0	103.7	106.0	102.9
Apr 26	97.9	100.5	104.0	106.3	103.3
May 26	100.2	101.6	104.5	108.2	104.8
Jun 26	100.2	101.6	104.5	111.2	106.2
Jul 26	100.2	101.6	104.5	111.5	106.3
Aug 26	101.0	101.6	104.5	111.0	108.5

Cotton spun 82.3 index, August 2026 +3.3% on the year
Synthetic and other spun 144.9 index, August 2026 +1.8% on the year
Rayon, acetate, lyocell spun 187.9 index, August 2026 +4.2% on the year
Textured and twisted filament 218.1 index, August 2026 +7.1% on the year
All fibre, yarn and thread mills 123.4 index, August 2026 +6.8% on the year

Cotton spun and Synthetic and other spun were reported unchanged in 10 and 9 of the last twelve months. Few producers reprice into a series like that, so it is a slow moving reference, not a month-by-month test of what a mill tells you.

The most recent month is preliminary and BLS may revise it for up to four months. The whole window is refetched every run rather than added to, so a revision shows up here instead of being frozen.

What this means for the producer price indexes

What this is United States producer price indexes for the series in the key, each rebased to 100 at the start of the window so they can be read against one another on a single scale.

How to read it Every line starts together at 100 on the left edge, so the chart answers one question: which input has climbed furthest since then. A line at 110 has risen ten per cent over the window, one at 95 has fallen five, and where two lines pull apart their costs have genuinely diverged. The list under the chart gives each series' latest published level and its change over the past year; those raw levels sit on different base years, so never compare or divide them directly.

What moves it The cost of the fibre underneath, energy, and how much pricing power the mills in that category currently have.

How to use it Checking a supplier story over months, not weeks. When a mill says the market moved, this shows the direction and rough size of the move in that family of yarn in the United States. Where a series is flagged as slow moving above, do not read a flat line as proof that nothing moved.

The trap These are index numbers for United States producers, not price levels and not your supplier country. They tell you the shape and size of a move, never what anything costs. The rebasing to 100 is our arithmetic and not the statistics office.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics producer price indexes, read on 14 October 2026. A work of the US federal government, in the public domain. The rebasing is ours, not theirs. BLS producer price indexes (opens in a new tab)

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