{"title":"Textile fabrics and related items market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/192-textile-fabrics-and-related-items","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"192","label":"Textile fabrics and related items"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 381 supply contracts for textile fabrics and related items through award notices on TED; the 184 of them that state a value (48.3%) add up to €39.1 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. EU countries together imported €22.6 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to textile fabrics and related items in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 5603, 5407, 5903, 6006, 5208 and 26 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 6.4% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 371 companies have won 951 public supply contracts for textile fabrics and related items in 30 European countries, in 279 award notices from 188 public buyers.","4% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Czechia.","The five companies that win most often hold 12.9% of all awards across Europe.","13.7% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":951,"awardNotices":279,"winningCompanies":371,"publicBuyers":188,"awardsWithValue":486,"awardedValueEur":179380863,"localAwards":913,"foreignAwards":38,"top5Share":0.12933753943217666,"singleBidAwards":123,"awardsWithKnownBids":899,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":3,"awardNotices":2,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":1180174},{"year":2024,"awards":130,"awardNotices":58,"awardsWithValue":81,"awardedValueEur":48714484},{"year":2025,"awards":381,"awardNotices":98,"awardsWithValue":184,"awardedValueEur":39116845},{"year":2026,"awards":437,"awardNotices":121,"awardsWithValue":219,"awardedValueEur":90369360}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"5603","label":"Nonwovens, whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or laminated, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"5407","label":"Woven fabrics of synthetic filament yarn, incl. monofilament of >= 67 decitex and with a cross sectional dimension of <= 1 mm"},{"hs4":"5903","label":"Textile fabrics impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with plastics (excl. tyre cord fabric of high-tenacity yarn of nylon or other polyamides, polyesters or viscose rayon"},{"hs4":"6006","label":"Fabrics, knitted or crocheted, of a width of > 30 cm (excl. warp knit fabrics \"incl. those made on galloon knitting machines\", those containing by weight >= 5% of elastomeric yarn or  rubber thread, and pile fabrics, incl. \"long pile\", looped pile fabrics, labels, badges and similar articles, and knitted or crocheted fabrics, impregnated, coated, covered or laminated)"},{"hs4":"5208","label":"Woven fabrics of cotton, containing >= 85% cotton by weight and weighing <= 200 g/m²"},{"hs4":"4101","label":"Raw hides and skins of bovine \"incl. buffalo\" or equine animals, fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, whether or not dehaired or split (excl. tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared)"},{"hs4":"5515","label":"Woven fabrics containing predominantly, but < 85% synthetic staple fibres by weight, other than those mixed principally or solely with cotton"},{"hs4":"6005","label":"Warp knit fabrics \"incl. those made on galloon knitting machines\", of a width of > 30 cm  (excl. those containing by weight >= 5% of elastomeric yarn or  rubber thread, and pile fabrics, incl. \"long pile\", looped pile fabrics, labels, badges and similar articles, and knitted or crocheted fabrics, impregnated, coated, covered or laminated)"},{"hs4":"6004","label":"Knitted or crocheted fabrics, of a width >  30 cm, containing by weight >= 5% of elastomeric yarn or  rubber thread (excl. pile fabrics, incl. \"long pile\", looped pile fabrics, labels, badges and similar articles, and knitted or crocheted fabrics, impregnated, coated, covered or laminated)"},{"hs4":"5801","label":"Woven pile fabrics and chenille fabrics (excl. terry towelling and similar woven terry fabrics, tufted textile fabrics and narrow woven fabrics of heading 5806)"},{"hs4":"5906","label":"Rubberised textile fabrics (excl. tyre cord fabric of high-tenacity yarn of nylon or other polyamides, polyesters or viscose rayon)"},{"hs4":"5209","label":"Woven fabrics of cotton, containing >= 85% cotton by weight and weighing > 200 g/m²"},{"hs4":"5112","label":"Woven fabrics of combed wool or of combed fine animal hair (excl. fabrics for technical purposes of heading 5911)"},{"hs4":"5512","label":"Woven fabrics containing >= 85% synthetic staple fibres by weight"},{"hs4":"5516","label":"Woven fabrics of artificial staple fibres"},{"hs4":"5309","label":"Woven fabrics of flax"},{"hs4":"6001","label":"Pile fabrics, incl. \"long pile\" fabrics and terry fabrics, knitted or crocheted"},{"hs4":"5211","label":"Woven fabrics of cotton, containing predominantly, but < 85% cotton by weight, mixed principally or solely with man-made fibres and weighing > 200 g/m²"},{"hs4":"5101","label":"Wool, neither carded nor combed"},{"hs4":"5102","label":"Fine or coarse animal hair, neither carded nor combed (excl. wool, hair and bristles used in the manufacture of brooms and brushes, and horsehair from the mane or tail)"},{"hs4":"5111","label":"Woven fabrics of carded wool or of carded fine animal hair (excl. fabrics for technical use of heading 5911)"},{"hs4":"4103","label":"Other raw hides and skins, fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, whether or not dehaired or split (excl. those of bovine animals, equine animals, sheep and lambs, those with wool on and those of goats or kids from Yemen, Mongolia or Tibet and tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared)"},{"hs4":"5210","label":"Woven fabrics of cotton, containing predominantly, but < 85% cotton by weight, mixed principally or solely with man-made fibres and weighing <= 200 g/m²"},{"hs4":"5907","label":"Impregnated, coated or covered textile fabrics"},{"hs4":"5802","label":"Terry towelling and similar woven terry fabrics, tufted textile fabrics (excl. narrow woven fabrics of heading 5806, carpets and other floor coverings)"},{"hs4":"5804","label":"Tulles and other net fabrics (excl. woven, knitted or crocheted fabrics)"},{"hs4":"5212","label":"Woven fabrics of cotton, containing predominantly, but < 85% cotton by weight, other than those mixed principally or solely with man-made fibres"},{"hs4":"4102","label":"Raw skins of sheep or lambs, fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, whether or not dehaired or split (excl. those with wool on, fleeces of Astrakhan, Caracul, Persian, Broadtail or similar lambs, or of Indian, Chinese, Mongolian or Tibetan lambs and tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared)"},{"hs4":"6003","label":"Knitted or crocheted fabrics, of a width <= 30 cm (excl. those containing by weight >= 5% of elastomeric yarn or  rubber thread, and pile fabrics, incl. \"long pile\", looped pile fabrics, labels, badges and similar articles, and knitted or crocheted fabrics, impregnated, coated, covered or laminated)"},{"hs4":"6002","label":"Knitted or crocheted fabrics, of a width <=  30 cm, containing by weight >= 5% of elastomeric yarn or  rubber thread (excl. pile fabrics, incl. \"long pile\", looped pile fabrics, labels, badges and similar articles, and knitted or crocheted fabrics, impregnated, coated, covered or laminated)"},{"hs4":"5113","label":"Woven fabrics of coarse animal hair or of horsehair (excl. fabrics for technical uses of heading 5911)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":24109683296},{"year":2024,"valueEur":22708844616},{"year":2025,"valueEur":22576113104}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in the EU-27 — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €2.93 trillion 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":2926602000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":31.3,"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, \"Textile fabrics and related items market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/192-textile-fabrics-and-related-items, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}