Imports of textiles and apparel fell 8.6 percent from November to December after a 6.6 percent drop the previous month, 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.
Click here to register for ST&R’s upcoming webinar on apparel classification.
Overall imports. Textile and apparel imports totaled 9.13 billion square meter equivalents in December, down 8.6 percent from November but up 32.3 percent from a year earlier. Textile imports totaled 7.08 billion SME, down 12.2 percent from a month earlier but up 38.6 percent from the previous year, while apparel imports of 2.05 billion SME were up 6.2 percent for the month and 14.0 percent from a year before.
Imports of textiles and apparel were 106.6 billion SME for all of 2024, up 15.2 percent from 2023. Textile imports were 80.9 billion SME, up 18.5 percent, while apparel imports totaled 25.8 billion SME, up 6.0 percent.
Source Countries. OTEXA has reported the following statistics on textile and apparel imports from major source countries for December 2024.
|
Country
|
SME
|
Monthly change %
|
Annual change %
|
YE change %
|
|
China
|
2.87 billion
|
-6.2
|
+14.9
|
+14.4
|
|
Egypt
|
1.19 billion
|
+7.2
|
+5130.6
|
+72.2
|
|
India
|
1.1 billion
|
-34.9
|
+20.9
|
+52.8
|
|
Vietnam
|
503.5 million
|
+4.7
|
+14.0
|
+14.2
|
|
Turkey
|
436.4 million
|
+51.6
|
-1.5
|
+14.8
|
|
Malaysia
|
326.7 million
|
-35.3
|
-35.7
|
+27.4
|
|
Pakistan
|
307.6 million
|
-1.9
|
+7.0
|
+6.4
|
|
Bangladesh
|
207.8 million
|
-7.0
|
+121.6
|
-6.5
|
|
Czech Rep.
|
187.0 million
|
-61.4
|
+562.9
|
+38.4
|
|
Israel
|
164.7 million
|
-44.8
|
+121.6
|
-6.5
|
Copyright © 2025 Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A.; WorldTrade Interactive, Inc. All rights reserved.