Imports of textiles and apparel fell again in December but were still higher than a year earlier, according to statistics from the Department of Commerce’s Office of Textiles and Apparel.
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Overall Imports. Textile and apparel imports totaled 6.91 billion square meter equivalents in December, down 1.0 percent from November but up 12.6 percent from a year earlier. Textile imports totaled 5.12 billion SME, down 3.9 percent for the month but up 21.2 percent from the previous year, while apparel imports of 1.80 billion SME were up 9.1 percent from November but down 6.3 percent from a year before.
For all of 2023, total imports were down 12.3 percent to 92.8 million SME. Textile imports fell 8.4 percent to 68.4 billion SME while apparel imports fell 21.7 percent to 24.3 billion SME.
Source Countries. OTEXA has reported the following statistics on textile and apparel imports from major source countries for December 2023.
|
Country
|
SME
|
Monthly change %
|
Annual change %
|
YE change %
|
|
China
|
2.49 billion
|
-5.3
|
+12.7
|
-12.9
|
|
India
|
912.2 million
|
+27.9
|
+81.0
|
-12.5
|
|
Malaysia
|
508.4 million
|
+18.5
|
+66.5
|
+26.1
|
|
Turkey
|
450.3 million
|
-1.8
|
+7.8
|
-30.0
|
|
Vietnam
|
442.7 million
|
-0.6
|
-2.7
|
-20.2
|
|
Mexico
|
358.0 million
|
-19.4
|
+44.8
|
+44.2
|
|
Pakistan
|
287.2 million
|
+8.3
|
+18.5
|
-10.6
|
|
Bangladesh
|
181.1 million
|
n/a
|
-19.5
|
-30.1
|
|
Israel
|
74.3 million
|
+207.0
|
+190.8
|
+16.2
|
|
Egypt
|
22.8 million
|
+20.0
|
-33.1
|
+37.7
|
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