The research studies the variables that encourage the export trading of the textile and clothing sector in Colombia and the department of the Atlántico. The methodology used is the analysis of international trade economic theory. Further, two gravity models are used for estimate the factors that determine the export the sector. The results are common factors among partners such as language; the colonizer country and the size of the economy drive the sector. Trade agreements are not decisive for exports in the Atlantic; however, for Colombia it is statistically significant.