**7. Textile production capacity and competitive factors**

The textile production capacity and competitive factors for each top country is summarized on **Table 3**, indicating the competitive advantages and disadvantages of each country.



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**Table 3.**

*Summary of selected SSA textile and apparel input producers.*

Changes in the volume by country are illustrated graphically on the **Figure A1** on Appendix 1.

The African Value Chain is highly fragmented and is illustrated by **Figure 10** below.

The 4 leading countries on imports of apparels from SSA to USA under AGOA are Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar and Ethiopia. Opportunities for development of the

**Figure 10.** *The African textile value chain.*

textile-cotton industry in SSA depend on the following critical success factors. African countries face 5 key opportunities to develop the cotton-textile sector and these are:


The textile industries of Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, and other nations have been destroyed by cheap Chinese imports. According to the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union in Ghana, only four out of thirty textile enterprises are still active (ICU). The organization claims that the country used to produce yarn for garments marketed domestically and in Sub-Saharan Africa, but that this is no longer the case.
