{"title":"Textile yarn and thread market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/194-textile-yarn-and-thread","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"194","label":"Textile yarn and thread"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 28 supply contracts for textile yarn and thread through award notices on TED; the 7 of them that state a value (25%) add up to €5.53 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. EU countries together imported €9.35 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to textile yarn and thread in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 5402, 5205, 5509, 5105, 5107 and 17 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 11.9% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 41 companies have won 58 public supply contracts for textile yarn and thread in 30 European countries, in 38 award notices from 34 public buyers.","15.5% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 32.8% of all awards across Europe.","39.1% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":58,"awardNotices":38,"winningCompanies":41,"publicBuyers":34,"awardsWithValue":17,"awardedValueEur":9002965,"localAwards":49,"foreignAwards":9,"top5Share":0.3275862068965517,"singleBidAwards":18,"awardsWithKnownBids":46,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":15,"awardNotices":12,"awardsWithValue":3,"awardedValueEur":1659306},{"year":2025,"awards":28,"awardNotices":14,"awardsWithValue":7,"awardedValueEur":5528146},{"year":2026,"awards":15,"awardNotices":12,"awardsWithValue":7,"awardedValueEur":1815513}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"5402","label":"Synthetic filament yarn, incl. synthetic monofilaments of < 67 decitex (excl. sewing thread and yarn put up for retail sale)"},{"hs4":"5205","label":"Cotton yarn other than sewing thread, containing >= 85% cotton by weight (excl. that put up for retail sale)"},{"hs4":"5509","label":"Yarn of synthetic staple fibres (excl. sewing thread and yarn put up for retail sale)"},{"hs4":"5105","label":"Wool and fine or coarse animal hair, carded or combed, incl. combed wool in fragments"},{"hs4":"5107","label":"Yarn of combed wool (excl. that put up for retail sale)"},{"hs4":"5404","label":"Synthetic monofilament of >= 67 decitex and with a cross sectional dimension of <= 1 mm"},{"hs4":"5301","label":"Flax, raw or processed, but not spun"},{"hs4":"5401","label":"Sewing thread of man-made filaments, whether or not put up for retail sale"},{"hs4":"5306","label":"Flax yarn"},{"hs4":"5201","label":"Cotton, neither carded nor combed"},{"hs4":"5002","label":"Raw silk \"non-thrown\""},{"hs4":"5106","label":"Carded wool yarn (excl. that put up for retail sale)"},{"hs4":"5305","label":"Coconut, abaca \"Manila hemp or Musa textilis Nee\", ramie, agave and other vegetable textile fibres, n.e.s., raw or processed, but not spun"},{"hs4":"5004","label":"Silk yarn (excl. that spun from silk waste and that put up for retail sale)"},{"hs4":"5207","label":"Cotton yarn put up for retail sale (excl. sewing thread)"},{"hs4":"5206","label":"Cotton yarn containing predominantly, but < 85% cotton by weight (excl. sewing thread and yarn put up for retail sale)"},{"hs4":"5508","label":"Sewing thread of man-made staple fibres, whether or not put up for retail sale"},{"hs4":"5203","label":"Cotton, carded or combed"},{"hs4":"5308","label":"Yarn of vegetable textile fibres"},{"hs4":"5204","label":"Cotton sewing thread, whether or not put up for retail sale"},{"hs4":"5406","label":"Man-made filament yarn, put up for retail sale (excl. sewing thread)"},{"hs4":"5303","label":"Jute and other textile bast fibres, raw or processed, but not spun"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":10615002180},{"year":2024,"valueEur":9812242727},{"year":2025,"valueEur":9348747115}]},"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 yarn and thread market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/194-textile-yarn-and-thread, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}