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Apparel and footwear and Machinery and equipment

Apparel and footwear buys from Machinery and equipment; apparel and footwear depends on machinery and equipment.

Apparel and footwear (industry) and Machinery and equipment (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹0.8 per ₹100 · Apparel and footwear buys from Machinery and equipment

Apparel and footwear buys goods or services from Machinery and equipment; counted through every round of supply, ₹0.8 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹0.8 of every ₹100 of Apparel and footwear output, all rounds
  • ₹0.2 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Machinery and equipment → Apparel and footwear

3 of the enterprise types in Apparel and footwear depend on machinery and equipment.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Footwear assembly factories: moulding and stitching machines (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Sewing and footwear machinery makers: parent industry (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Cut-make-trim garment factories: sewing and cutting machines (criticality 2 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.