Monthly imports of cotton, wool, manmade fiber, silk blend, and non-cotton vegetable fiber textile and apparel products continued to rebound in June, according to statistics from the Department of Commerce’s Office of Textiles and Apparel. Imports totaled 8.54 billion square meter equivalents in June 2021, up 14.0 percent from May 2021 and 83.9 percent from June 2020 (when trade volumes were low in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic). Textile imports totaled 6.21 billion SME, up 19.2 percent for the month and 97.5 percent from the previous year, while apparel imports of 2.32 billion SME were up 1.8 percent from May and 55.2 percent from a year before.
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Overall Imports. Total year-to-date imports were 40.9 billion SME, up 50.7 percent from the previous year, as textile imports rose 57.5 percent to 27.6 billion SME and apparel imports rose 38.4 percent to 13.4 billion SME.
For the year ending in June, imports were 81.4 billion SME, up 28.5 percent from the previous year. Textile imports rose 38.5 percent to 54.6 billion SME and apparel imports gained 12.1 percent to 26.8 billion SME.
Source Countries. OTEXA has reported the following statistics on textile and apparel imports from major source countries for June2 2021.
|
Country
|
SME
|
Monthly change %
|
Annual change %
|
$ value
|
Monthly change %
|
Annual change %
|
|
China
|
3.65 billion
|
+25.9
|
+50.9
|
2.55 billion
|
+23.8
|
+31.6
|
|
India
|
666.2 million
|
-13.7
|
+127
|
730.4 million
|
-18.7
|
+164
|
|
Vietnam
|
497.2 million
|
-8.9
|
+45.3
|
1.17 billion
|
-8.6
|
+27.7
|
|
Turkey
|
439.3 million
|
+42.5
|
+481
|
245.4 million
|
-3.1
|
+117
|
|
Israel
|
310.2 million
|
n/a
|
+717
|
21.8 million
|
n/a
|
+15.1
|
|
Pakistan
|
290.3 million
|
-10.9
|
+66.1
|
349.3 million
|
-7.3
|
+89.8
|
|
Mexico
|
269.3 million
|
+16.4
|
+24.2
|
389.4 million
|
+13.4
|
+42.6
|
|
Bangladesh
|
244.1 million
|
-17.0
|
+143
|
570.2 million
|
-8.4
|
+141
|
|
Czech Rep.
|
204.3 million
|
n/a
|
+2209
|
4.45 million
|
n/a
|
+56.1
|
|
Korea
|
197.7 million
|
+27.9
|
+91.3
|
99.7 million
|
+31.2
|
+72.3
|
|
Indonesia
|
161.1 million
|
+3.7
|
+92.9
|
314.8 million
|
-13.4
|
+42.2
|
|
Italy
|
150.9 million
|
n/a
|
+553
|
193.6 million
|
n/a
|
+75.1
|
|
Malaysia
|
148.7 million
|
n/a
|
+956
|
18.3 million
|
n/a
|
+6.8
|
|
Cambodia
|
101.8 million
|
-13.7
|
+14.1
|
214.7 million
|
-21.5
|
+3.0
|
|
Germany
|
95.8 million
|
-0.5
|
+77.5
|
48.1 million
|
+0.2
|
+47.9
|
|
Canada
|
89.3 million
|
-3.8
|
+13.0
|
98.8 million
|
-8.7
|
+39.3
|
|
Honduras
|
88.0 million
|
+4.8
|
+133
|
245.8 million
|
+7.7
|
+232
|
|
Taiwan
|
87.1 million
|
+16.4
|
+34.9
|
61.3 million
|
+17.9
|
+25.7
|
|
Egypt
|
68.5 million
|
-51.8
|
+157
|
86.6 million
|
-16.4
|
+29.4
|
|
El Salvador
|
64.7 million
|
+8.7
|
+353
|
158.5 million
|
+6.6
|
+547
|
|
Thailand
|
52.7 million
|
-17.8
|
+2.4
|
83.4 million
|
-12.1
|
+13.2
|
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