Statistics of production, trade flows and consumption of wool and wool-type textiles

Abstract

In this bulletin we bring up to date publication No. 18 "Trends in Production, Trade and Consumption of Wool and Wool Textiles" and set out some new data on the non-virgin wool content of wool textiles. All the statistical series in the earlier bulletin are complete up to the end of 1965 and in some cases the 1966 data, where available, has been included as well. Section VI sets out trends in non-virgin wool fibres consumed in the wool textile industry and final estimates of textile consumption are measured in pounds of fibre content and not in berms of wool content alone. The estimates given therefore differ from those given in F.A.O. publications where, as we understand it, allowance for non-virgin wool fibres in wool textiles is not made.