Textile and Apparel Imports Rebound in January; Bangladesh, Indonesia, Cambodia See Surges
The Department of Commerce’s Office of Textiles and Apparel reports that monthly imports of cotton, wool, manmade fiber, silk blend and non-cotton vegetable fiber textile and apparel products totaled 5.05 billion square meter equivalents in January, up 7.4 percent from December and 6.3 percent from January 2015. Textile imports totaled 2.87 billion SME, 7.1 percent higher than January and 6.1 percent higher than the previous year, while apparel imports of 2.18 billion SME were up 7.9 percent from December and 6.5 percent from a year earlier.
For the year ending in January, imports of textiles and apparel totaled 63.8 billion SME, up 8.0 percent from a year earlier. Textile imports rose 8.8 percent to 36.5 billion SME and apparel imports increased 7.0 percent to 27.3 billion SME.
With respect to specific sources, imports of textile and apparel products (except cotton and silk blend textiles) saw the following changes in January.
|
Country |
Jan. imports (SME) |
Monthly change (%) |
Year-on-year change (%) |
|
China |
2.46 billion |
+6.5 |
+9.8 |
|
India |
373.3 million |
+1.8 |
+0.1 |
|
Vietnam |
361.6 million |
+4.6 |
+6.4 |
|
Pakistan |
207.7 million |
+6.2 |
-1.3 |
|
Bangladesh |
199.1 million |
+53.9 |
+16.5 |
|
Mexico |
169.9 million |
-7.2 |
-7.9 |
|
Indonesia |
151.5 million |
+18.6 |
+3.9 |
|
South Korea |
118.7 million |
+3.9 |
+5.3 |
|
Canada |
84.1 million |
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+7.3 |
|
Cambodia |
77.0 million |
+11.6 |
-6.2 |
