In the first 8 months of the year, carpets worth $1 billion 738 million were exported to 178 countries. The largest market was the US with $487 million, and the largest province was Gaziantep with $1 billion 227 million.
TİM Carpet Sector Committee Chair İskender Kaplan reported shipments of 337.5 million square meters and 542 thousand tons. $1 billion 347 million of exports came from machine-made carpets. Istanbul made sales of $356 million and Uşak $62 million.