{"title":"Special clothing and accessories market in Belgium","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/be/184-special-clothing-and-accessories","scope":"Belgium","category":{"cpvGroup":"184","label":"Special clothing and accessories"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Belgium awarded 12 supply contracts for special clothing and accessories through award notices on TED; the 11 of them that state a value (91.7%) add up to €5.17 million. Belgium imported €694 million of goods in the customs headings matched to special clothing and accessories in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 6111, 6505, 6112, 6214, 6209 and 7 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), up 10.7% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 35 companies have won 81 public supply contracts for special clothing and accessories in Belgium, in 33 award notices from 27 public buyers.","95.1% of these awards went to companies registered in Belgium; the most frequent foreign origin is Austria.","The five companies that win most often hold 42% of all awards.","17% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":81,"awardNotices":33,"winningCompanies":35,"publicBuyers":27,"awardsWithValue":77,"awardedValueEur":50302031,"localAwards":77,"foreignAwards":4,"top5Share":0.41975308641975306,"singleBidAwards":8,"awardsWithKnownBids":47,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":5,"awardNotices":4,"awardsWithValue":5,"awardedValueEur":2007444},{"year":2024,"awards":38,"awardNotices":10,"awardsWithValue":38,"awardedValueEur":36608616},{"year":2025,"awards":12,"awardNotices":7,"awardsWithValue":11,"awardedValueEur":5170718},{"year":2026,"awards":26,"awardNotices":12,"awardsWithValue":23,"awardedValueEur":6515253}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"6111","label":"Babies' garments and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted (excl. hats)"},{"hs4":"6505","label":"Hats and other headgear, knitted or crocheted, or made up from lace, felt or other textile fabric, in the piece (but not in strips), whether or not lined or trimmed"},{"hs4":"6112","label":"Track-suits, ski-suits and swimwear, knitted or crocheted"},{"hs4":"6214","label":"Shawls, scarves, mufflers, mantillas, veils and similar articles (excl. knitted or crocheted)"},{"hs4":"6209","label":"Babies' garments and clothing accessories of textile materials (excl. knitted or crocheted and hats)"},{"hs4":"6117","label":"Made-up clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted"},{"hs4":"6217","label":"Made-up clothing accessories and parts of garments or clothing accessories, of all types of textile materials, n.e.s. (excl. knitted or crocheted)"},{"hs4":"9607","label":"Slide fasteners and parts thereof"},{"hs4":"9606","label":"Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press studs, button moulds and other parts of these articles"},{"hs4":"6504","label":"Hats and other headgear, plaited or made by assembling strips of any material, whether or not lined or trimmed (excl. headgear for animals, and toy and carnival headgear)"},{"hs4":"6215","label":"Ties, bow ties and cravats of textile materials (excl. knitted or crocheted)"},{"hs4":"6213","label":"Handkerchiefs, of which no side exceeds 60 cm (excl. knitted or crocheted)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":626843126},{"year":2024,"valueEur":695584701},{"year":2025,"valueEur":694186012}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Belgium — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €99.6 billion in 2025, 15.5% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":99553000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":28.5,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Special clothing and accessories market in Belgium\", https://cresques.com/markets/be/184-special-clothing-and-accessories, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}