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Canadian Textiles
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 Canadian Textiles
Textiles MarketThe Canadian textiles market fell to $8 847.8 million in 2005, down 2.5 percent from the previous year. The lower market reflected the decline in both domestic shipments and imports. Domestic shipments fell to $3 204 million in 2005, a decline of 3.9 percent from a year ago. They accounted for 36.2 percent of the market in 2005. Imports fell to $5 643.8 million in 2005, a decrease of 1.7 percent from the previous year and accounted for 63.8 percent of the market in the same year.
In the most recent five-year period of 2000-2005, driven especially by declining domestic shipments over time, the textiles market recorded a massive five-year decline of 19.3 percent. As well, in the ten-year period of 1995-2005, the market was also in retreat, dropping 1.5 percent from its level in 1995. With some exceptions, domestic shipments of textiles have been in decline historically and continue so to date. For example, domestic shipments of textiles declined 21.1 percent in 2002-2003, 3.1 percent in 2003-04 and, as noted earlier, 3.9 percent in 2004-2005. As with domestic shipments, imports have been mostly in decline. They dropped 3.7 percent in 2000-2001, 9 percent in 2002-2003 and, as noted earlier, 1.7 percent in 2004-2005.
In the most recent five-year period of 2000-2005, except for 2001-2002 when they rose, textiles domestic shipments and imports recorded year-to-year declines. Domestic shipments were 28.8 percent lower in 2005 than five years ago, and 26.5 percent lower in the ten-year period of 1995-2005. Imports were 12.7 percent lower in the same five-year period but 22.2 percent higher in the same ten-year period. Notwithstanding the declines in both domestic shipments and imports, the latter continued to displace domestic shipments. Canadian textiles manufacturers, who accounted for 36.2 percent of the market in 2005, saw their share further reduced by 1.5 percent in 2004-2005. In the five-year period of 2000-2005, they experienced a market share decline of 11.7 percent. In the ten-year period of 1995-2005, they experienced a decline in market share of 25.4 percent. In contrast, imports, which took 63.8 percent of the decreasing textiles market, rose 8.2 percent in five years, and 24 percent in ten years. Back to topTextiles IndustryAccording to Statistics Canada, the Canadian textiles industry in 2005 comprised some 1 417 establishments, employed about 41 515 workers, and shipped $6 197 million of textiles, of which 48.3 percent was exported. "Canada's textile manufacturing industry has transformed itself in the last twenty to twenty-five years through substantial and sustained capital investment. The result: an industry that is modern, efficient, increasingly capital-intensive, a major user of high technology and a provider of quality jobs for thousands of Canadians. Innovation and investment are the key to the industry's future success in the global trading environment and to its continuing contribution to the health of the Canadian economy"-- Liz Siwicki, Executive Director, Canadian Textiles Institute The Canadian textiles industry accounts for 1.2 percent of manufacturing Gross Domestic Product, 1.2 percent of manufacturing investment and 2.3 percent of manufacturing employment. A capital-intensive industry, the textiles industry, continues to restructure to exploit sustainable export opportunities and compete effectively with stiff import competition, especially from developed countries.
Total textiles shipments were 4.9 percent lower in 2005 from one year ago, 21.1 percent lower in the five-year period of 2000-2005 and 3.9 percent lower in the ten-year period of 1995-2005. Domestic shipments were down in all three periods, -3.9 percent in the one-year period of 2004-2005, -28.8 percent in the five-year period of 2000-2005 and –26.5 percent in the ten-year period of 1995-2005. Exports followed the total textiles shipments performance, down 6 percent in the one-year period of 2004-2005, down 10.7 percent in the five-year period of 2000-2005 but some 43.4 percent higher in the ten-year period of 1995-2005. To offset the continuing decline of the domestic shipments share of total textiles shipments over time, domestic manufacturers continue to work on sustainable export market expansion. Thus, despite a 6 percent decline in export volume in 2004-2005, exports as a percentage of total shipments dipped 1.1 percent to 48.3 percent in 2005, but was still some 13.2 percent higher than five years earlier and 49.2 percent higher than ten years ago. All three major textiles industry sectors, namely, manmade fibres & filaments, textiles mills and textile product mills, contributed to the 2004-2005 decline in total shipments, falling 11.7 percent, 5.4 percent and 1.7 percent, respectively. In the five-year period of 2000-2005, shipments of manmade fibres & filaments declined some 22 percent, falling from $950.3 million in 2000 to $741.2 million in 2005, textile mills fell 20.2 percent from $4025.8 million to $3213.7 million and textile product mills dropped 6.9 percent from $2408 million to $2242.1 million.
The Canadian textiles industry's investments in machinery and equipment and its labour skills upgrading reflect the industry's drive to sustained international competitiveness The industry is capital intensive with larger investments by manmade fibres/filaments producers and textile mills and smaller investments by textile products mills. As well, investment expenditures are concentrated among larger textile companies. In 2005, the textiles industry is estimated to have invested a low $148 million, of which about 67 percent ($99.2 million) occurred in textiles mills, and 33 percent ($48.8 million) in textile product mills. While Canada is not a textile machinery manufacturing country, the industry has full access to worldwide textile technology and often performs further process R&D and customization of new technology.
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