Outerwear. - Business Location Switzerland

Table 13: Largest extra EU supplying countries of outerwear, 2006-2008
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Position Country 2006 [‘000 €] Change from
2006
l Outerwear 2010
2007 [‘000 €] Change from
2007
2008 [‘000 €]
1 China 1’706’835 21% 2’063’477 16% 2’403’807
2 Tunisia 724’022 -2% 712’974 1% 716’682
3 Morocco 673’775 -1% 667’699 -5% 632’342
4 India 575’986 -2% 563’260 3% 579’893
5 Bangladesh 506’696 0% 505’593 6% 538’135
6 Turkey 473’249 -4% 456’431 -5% 432’976
7 Switzerland 147’655 26% 186’272 3% 191’969
8 Mauritius 141’210 -10% 127’783 -13% 110’726
9 Madagascar 82’148 9% 89’489 -6% 84’430
10 Thailand 160’357 -15% 135’684 -39% 82’628
11 Pakistan 71’823 9% 78’482 0% 78’534
12 Vietnam 83’922 -2% 82’205 -7% 76’574
13 Indonesia 99’603 -15% 84’583 -18% 69’144
14 Hong Kong 125’119 -33% 83’618 -54% 38’281
15 South Korea 67’096 -36% 42’641 -21% 33’894
16 Cambodia 33’740 -2% 33’020 -13% 28’743
17 Malaysia 25’550 8% 27’592 -14% 23’682
18 Macao 67’610 -23% 52’341 -62% 20’126
19 USA 19’313 2% 19’660 -7% 18’336
20 Sri Lanka 24’124 -23% 18’470 -1% 18’228
Source: Eurostat 2009
Extra-EU 27 6’073’822 3% 6’255’259 2% 6’364’314
Intra-EU 27 6’434’957 4% 6’660’298 1% 6’706’674
Total 12’508’779 3% 12’915’557 1% 13’070’988
Typically, the French consider themselves to be rather weak
in foreign language skills. Moreover, they are not very keen on
speaking another language than French. This fact should be
considered by foreign manufacturers wishing to sell in the French
market. This fact also explains the leadership position of the
relatively small EU country Belgium, which is characterised as
a multilingual country, including the French language. Much
business with Belgium is done on a subcontracting basis.