TNAG-0153-FCO40-189-Exports-of-cotton-textiles-to-Canada-1969 — Page 60

ANNEX C

Canadian production of shirts

The attached table gives all the information available to us.

Woven shirts

Canadian producers' deliveries of all woven shirts (except wool) fell from 1.91m. dozen in 1966 to 1.75m. dozen in 1967 and 1.64m. dozen in 1968 - a decline of 14% over the three year period.

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Within this total, cotton shirts have declined dramatically o.7m. dozens in 1968, they were less than half the 1966 figure of 1.54m. dozens and also heavily down on the 1967 figure of 1.3m. dozens. Shirts of 100% man-made fibre, at 0.11m. dozens in 1968, were slightly down on the 1966 figure of 0.12m. dozens, but up on the low 1967 figure of 0.08m. dozens. Shirts of blended cotton and man-made fibre, on the other hand, rose from 0.24m. dozens in 1966 to 0.38m. dozens in 1967, and in 1968 jumped to 0.83m. dozens over double the previous year's figure.

In 1966, blended shirts made up only 13% of Canadian deliveries of woven shirts. By 1968, they accounted for just over 50%.

Knit shirts

Our picture of Canadian shirt production is incomplete, because we have no information about output of knit shirts in 1968. This is a rapidly expanding sector of the market, and such production figures as we have for 1966 and 1967 only, and combining cotton and man-made fibre show a 15% increase in output between the two years. Judging by the import figures, however, the big upsurge in demand for knitted shirts - part of which was presumably supplied by the Canadian industry came in 1968.

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