The textile industry consists of products such as clothing, fabric, yarn, fibers, and synthetic materials. From long ago to the present, this industry has had a prominent importance in people's lives and is an inseparable part of their consumer goods. Although Iran possesses a suitable historical and cultural foundation in the textile industry, it does not have a particularly favorable situation in this field.
To clarify this issue, the Namafar Center has compared the volume of Turkey's textile exports with Iran's. Turkey, as one of the leading countries in the textile industry, has had 4-fold growth in this industry over the past two decades, such that Turkey's textile exports in 2021 reached 41.1 billion dollars. Germany, at 5.32 billion dollars, is the top destination for Turkey's textile exports.
This is while Iran's textile exports in 2021 were only 228 million dollars. The existence of favorable regional markets such as Iraq and Oman, the presence of specialists and an active labor force in the country, and the possibility of small businesses operating are among the factors that make the regret over this lost opportunity in the economic and cultural sphere all the more salient.
In your view, what problems does Iran's textile industry face?
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian