# Top Cotton: sewing thread, containing less than 85% by weight of cotton, not put up for retail sale trade corridors

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Compare reported Cotton: sewing thread, containing less than... trade corridors by value, growth, market share, access, and route signals.

Canonical: https://www.yugalinks.com/trade/product/520419/corridors

## Answer

The leading reported corridor is **Thailand -> Laos**, with $3.2M in the latest reported year. The top five displayed corridors represent 397.7% of the product total used for this view.

## Corridor ranking

| Rank | Route | Latest trade | 3-year growth | Share | Access | Signal |
| ---: | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- | --- |
| 1 | Thailand -> Laos | $3.2M | +20.9% | 56% | FTA reported | Accelerating |
| 2 | USA, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands -> Dominican Republic | $3.1M | +60.2% | 84.5% | FTA reported | Stable |
| 3 | France -> Poland | $2.4M | +85.4% | 99.5% | FTA reported | Accelerating |
| 4 | Viet Nam -> Cambodia | $2.1M | -0.6% | 62.4% | FTA reported | Growing |
| 5 | USA, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands -> Costa Rica | $1.6M | +970.4% | 95.2% | FTA reported | Growing |
| 6 | United Rep. of Tanzania -> India | $1.2M | +3,899.7% | 96% | No FTA reported | Accelerating |
| 7 | China -> Myanmar | $1.2M | -15.5% | 58.4% | FTA reported | Growing |
| 8 | China -> Laos | $1.0M | +50.9% | 17.5% | FTA reported | Accelerating |
| 9 | China -> Cambodia | $994.4K | +15.5% | 29% | FTA reported | Accelerating |
| 10 | Cambodia -> Turkey | $969.7K | Not reported | 95% | No FTA reported | Accelerating |
| 11 | Costa Rica -> Guatemala | $845.2K | +4,929.4% | 59.6% | FTA reported | Accelerating |
| 12 | Dominican Republic -> Haiti | $813.1K | +2.4% | 100% | FTA reported | Accelerating |
| 13 | Viet Nam -> Laos | $742.1K | -8.5% | 12.8% | FTA reported | Accelerating |
| 14 | Viet Nam -> Philippines | $725.4K | +96.5% | 56.9% | FTA reported | Growing |
| 15 | USA, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands -> Mexico | $607.0K | +65.5% | 87.3% | FTA reported | Slowing |
| 16 | USA, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands -> Hungary | $586.0K | +1,114.1% | 99.5% | No FTA reported | Accelerating |
| 17 | United Kingdom -> Sudan | $577.7K | Not reported | 95.2% | No FTA reported | Declining |
| 18 | Egypt -> Saudi Arabia | $546.4K | -4% | 91.2% | FTA reported | Growing |
| 19 | Thailand -> Myanmar | $506.2K | +12.3% | 25.3% | FTA reported | Growing |
| 20 | China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region -> Laos | $491.8K | -10.7% | 8.5% | FTA reported | Accelerating |
| 21 | Honduras -> Dominican Republic | $453.0K | +514.3% | 18.5% | FTA reported | Growing |
| 22 | China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region -> Indonesia | $441.1K | +22.1% | 53% | FTA reported | Accelerating |
| 23 | Thailand -> Turkey | $433.6K | +81% | 32.6% | No FTA reported | Accelerating |
| 24 | United Rep. of Tanzania -> China | $382.3K | +226.7% | 20.9% | No FTA reported | Accelerating |
| 25 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) -> Italy | $371.4K | +297.8% | 34.9% | No FTA reported | Accelerating |

## Growth leaders

- **Costa Rica -> Guatemala**: +4,929.4% 3-year CAGR, $845.2K latest value.
- **United Rep. of Tanzania -> India**: +3,899.7% 3-year CAGR, $1.2M latest value.
- **United Rep. of Tanzania -> Pakistan**: +3,417.6% 3-year CAGR, $160.2K latest value.
- **China -> Guinea-Bissau**: +2,122.8% 3-year CAGR, $277.5K latest value.

## Access comparison

- FTA reported: $28.1M across 54 corridors; average growth +239.8%.
- No FTA reported: $11.4M across 46 corridors; average growth +361.6%.

## Reading the figures

Trade value identifies scale. Growth shows movement over the available comparison period. Access, distance, volatility, and signals provide supporting route context where reported. Missing values are not filled or treated as zero.

## Data sources

- Primary trade series: OECD (2025), Balanced international merchandise trade statistics (BIMTS) - HS2017-6D, OECD Data Explorer (accessed on 2026-08-27). [OECD Data Explorer](https://data-explorer.oecd.org/) - [OECD Terms & Conditions](https://www.oecd.org/termsandconditions/)
- CEPII BACI bilateral trade flows (202601): [dataset page](https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37) - [BACI documentation](https://www.cepii.fr/DATA_DOWNLOAD/baci/doc/baci_webpage.html) - [Etalab 2.0 Open Licence](https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/open-licence.pdf)

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