18.1% lost in China
How should we evaluate these figures? Why did the sector’s income go back to 2015 despite the high expectations in the new year? At this point China is a factor that should be underlined. The crysis Turkey went through in China is undoubtedly the main reason of the decrease in 2018.
Earning $945,660,862 from China in
2017, Turkish natural stone sector made $773,837,525 in 2018 with a decrease of $171 million. In other words, our income from China decreased by 18.1%.4