Background

Imports of textiles and apparel increased from May to June, according to statistics from the Department of Commerce’s Office of Textiles and Apparel.

For more information on trade-related issues affecting textiles and apparel, please contact ST&R’s textile and apparel practice leader Elise Shibles at (415) 490-1403 or via email

Overall imports. Textile and apparel imports totaled 8.57 billion square meter equivalents in June, up 6.9 percent from May and 2.5 percent from a year earlier. Textile imports totaled 6.53 billion SME, up 3.3 percent from a month earlier and 3.1 percent from the previous year, while apparel imports of 2.04 billion SME were up 20 percent for the month and 0.5 percent from a year before.

For the year to date, total imports were up 5.9 percent from a year earlier to 49.5 billion SME, with textile imports up 6.4 percent to 37.3 million SME and apparel imports up 4.3 percent to 12.2 million SME.

For the year ending in June 2025, total imports were up 15.6 percent compared to a year earlier, to 109.4 billion SME. Textile imports rose 18.3 percent to 83.1 billion SME while apparel imports were up 7.9 percent to 26.3 billion SME.

Source Countries. OTEXA has reported the following statistics on textile and apparel imports from major source countries for June 2025.

Country

SME

Monthly change %

Annual change %

YE change %

China

2.0 billion

+26.3

-32.9

+3.3

India

1.22 billion

-9.6

+37.2

+59.1

Saudi Arabia

821.3 million

+284.3

+1599.1

+684.7

Vietnam

631.4 million

+6.7

+24.1

+17.2

Türkiye

495.4 million

+49.8

-16.1

-20.5

Malaysia

488.3 million

+56.9

-13.4

+2.5

Egypt

342.5 million

-61.9

-27.5

+98.5

Czech Rep.

316.7 million

n/a

+100.5

+55.8

Bangladesh

246.1 million

+16.6

+37.4

+18.0

Pakistan

230.2 million

-25.6

-15.4

+5.8

 

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