Textile industry is one of Chinese mainly export industries, has contributed much more to the development of the Chinese economy. The datas from 2001 show that America is the most important market for textile in the world, and to Chinese, it’s also the main textile export market. However, though the competition in recent years, Chinese and Indian have been the most important competitors in the American market.
This thesis will analysis the status of our textile industry，and then integrate the full and accurate data, use the The Market Share and the Revealed Comparative Advantage Index and other analysis tools to compare the competiveness of two countries’ textile industry in the American market . and compared and analysis the relative factors that affecting the competiveness of Chinese and Indian. Then get the conclusion: although the competiveness of Chinese textile is more stronger than Indian, due to the relative factors ,Indian textile will catch on with Chinese in some years. Then put forward some recommendations for Chinese textile export industry.
KEY WORDS: Chinese and Indian textile industry , competiveness，the market share , Revealed Comparative Advantage Index
