About İTHİB

AREAS OF ACTIVITY

As the umbrella organization for Türkiye’s Textile and Raw Materials Exports, İTHİB serves the sector in many subcategories, from promotional activities to design, education, and R&D studies, in order to achieve sustainable and value-added export goals.

PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES

By organizing national participation in the fairs held twice a year, such as Première Vision Paris, the London Textile Fair, and Munich Fabric Start, it promotes Turkish textile products in the global market.

Techtextil Frankfurt, Heimtextile Fair, and Première Vision Milano, among the world's leading textile fair organizations, represent their members; they set up info stands and organize workshops. By organizing commercial visits to distant markets such as Première Vision Montreal and Intertextile Shanghai, it contributes to the market diversity of the sector.

It collaborates with similar organizations abroad, professional chambers, trade chambers, commercial representatives of embassies, fair organizers, and public relations agencies.

To increase the effectiveness of Turkish exporters in the market, trade delegations are organized for potential and existing markets. Trade delegations to target markets such as Chile, Brazil, Spain, the UK, Poland, Egypt, and Morocco; buying delegations from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and the Netherlands; and a buying delegation as part of the Texhibition Istanbul Fabric, Yarn, and Textile Accessories Fair, held twice a year in Istanbul, are some of the latest delegations organized.

DESIGN ACTIVITIES

In addition to promotional activities abroad, it enhances the competitive and creative potential of the Turkish textile sector through domestic activities.

Since 2006, İTHİB has been organizing the Fabric Design Competition to support and bring young talents into the industry; it encourages and rewards qualified young individuals who will take part in the textile sector.

It conducts studies to encourage and support the design capacity of the sector through periodic seminars and workshops.

EDUCATION

To promote textile engineering and to make education in textile engineering more qualified, the "My Choice Textile Engineering Scholarship Project," realized in collaboration with the Textile and Ready-Made Garment Exporters' Associations, conducts efforts to bring qualified students into the sector and to elevate the sector's perception.

İTHİB organizes periodic vocational training courses, fashion seminars, and workshops related to foreign trade and marketing to support and develop its members' current activities.

It organizes seminars, conferences, training programs, and other events related to matters of interest to its members.

Provides its members with information and consultancy services on topics such as trade policies, market and industry trends, and commercial data. İTHİB, by conducting Ur-Ge projects under the Ministry of Commerce; organizes training and consultancy activities specific to clusters so that its member firms can develop their capacities.

R&D AND REPORTING

Prepares sectoral export, foreign trade, economic indicators, and country-based R&D reports. In this context, export data and economic indicators of the sector are shared with members on a monthly basis, based on all sub-product groups of the sector.

Developments related to the sector in the international arena are monitored and announced to members at regular intervals. Country analysis studies, target country-region reports, and sectoral reports are prepared to create publications on the monitoring of global foreign trade trends.

Playing an important role in conveying the requests of its members and the issues they encounter in export procedures to the relevant authorities, İTHİB shares statistical and regulatory information within the framework of the firms' requests. It promptly informs its members about international regulatory arrangements.

REPRESENTATION

Provides a dialogue mechanism with industries abroad.

As a member of various textile institutions and organizations in Europe and the world, such as EURATEX and EUROCOTTON, it represents the industry on national and international platforms.

Regular meetings, information sharing, and introduction meetings, among other communication channels, enhance cooperation between members and foreign textile organizations.

İTHİB aims to enhance its efforts and capabilities to guide and support its members in all target markets through new organizations and initiatives.

İTHİB aims to build a bridge between Turkish textile and raw material exporters and stakeholders around the world, with a desire to establish long-term partnerships.

COMMUNICATION WORKS

Works intensively with national and international stakeholders within the framework of the country's and sector's common policies.

In addition to promptly informing its members about global developments, it ensures a flow of information regarding the current state of the sector by engaging in international communication activities.

İTKİB directly conveys all the information and developments that the sector may need to its members through the İTKİB target magazine.