Egypt’s garment exports went up 9.5 percent to reach 1.598 billion dollars in 2018, up from 1.459 billion in 2017, the Ready-made Garments Export Council of Egypt said Wednesday.

The US ranked first of the top 10 importing countries of the Egyptian ready-made clothes in 2018, by $797 million dollars of imports, followed by Spain 143 million dollars, then Turkey 134 million.

The UK imported clothes worth 108 million dollars from Egypt in 2018, Germany 93 million dollars, Italy 74 million dollars, France 53 million dollars, among others.