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 5.82 billion square meter equivalents in July, up 4.3 percent from June and 2.1 percent from July 2016. Textile imports totaled 3.27 billion SME, down 1.5 percent for the month but up 3.8 percent from the previous year, while apparel imports of 2.55 billion SME were up 13.3 percent from July but down 0.1 percent from a year before.
Overall Imports. Total year-to-date imports were 36.5 billion SME, up 2.2 percent from the previous year, as textile imports gained 2.9 percent to 21.2 billion SME and apparel imports rose 1.4 percent to 15.3 billion SME.
For the year ending in July imports were 63.7 billion SME, up 1.4 percent from a year earlier, as textile imports increased 2.5 percent to 36.6 billion SME and apparel imports slipped 0.1 percent to 27.1 billion SME.
Source Countries. OTEXA has reported the following statistics on textile and apparel imports from major source countries for July 2017.
| |
SME
|
Monthly change %
|
Annual change %
|
$ Value
|
Monthly change %
|
Annual change %
|
|
China
|
2.97 billion
|
+6.8
|
+1.6
|
$3.90 billion
|
+16.8
|
+0.8
|
|
Vietnam
|
449.1 million
|
+12.2
|
+19.5
|
$1.20 billion
|
+22.5
|
+12.6
|
|
India
|
423.7 million
|
-3.9
|
+7.1
|
$621.8 million
|
+2.1
|
+3.1
|
|
Pakistan
|
231.3 million
|
+14.2
|
+16.3
|
$259.2 million
|
+13.2
|
+10.1
|
|
Mexico
|
207.1 million
|
-9.6
|
+1.2
|
$410.3 million
|
-4.2
|
+13.9
|
|
Bangladesh
|
192.8 million
|
n/a
|
+2.7
|
$479.0 million
|
n/a
|
-7.3
|
|
Indonesia
|
134.8 million
|
-2.4
|
-17.0
|
$421.5 million
|
+7.2
|
-11.0
|
|
Korea
|
132.4 million
|
-4.4
|
-4.4
|
$74.2 million
|
-2.6
|
-17.0
|
|
Honduras
|
97.0 million
|
+0.5
|
-10.0
|
$242.2 million
|
+2.5
|
-6.3
|
|
Cambodia
|
91.3 million
|
+37.5
|
+16.5
|
$215.9 million
|
+37.0
|
+12.8
|
|
Canada
|
88.2 million
|
-2.0
|
-0.8
|
$106.8 million
|
+1.1
|
+10.9
|
|
Taiwan
|
82.7 million
|
+14.1
|
+15.6
|
$70.1 million
|
+21.7
|
+9.9
|
|
El Salvador
|
74.9 million
|
+16.3
|
-12.0
|
$188.5 million
|
+19.2
|
-6.0
|
|
Turkey
|
58.3 million
|
-15.1
|
-12.0
|
$123.7 million
|
+4.0
|
+7.8
|
OTEXA has also reported the following statistics on textile and apparel imports from major source countries for the year to date.
|
|
SME
|
Change from 2016
|
$ value
|
Change from 2016
|
|
China
|
17.0 billion
|
+4.0
|
$20.7 billion
|
-3.4
|
|
India
|
3.03 billion
|
+8.2
|
$4.53 billion
|
+3.0
|
|
Vietnam
|
2.80 billion
|
+9.9
|
$6.87 billion
|
+5.4
|
|
Pakistan
|
1.49 billion
|
+1.2
|
$1.61 billion
|
+0.7
|
|
Mexico
|
1.46 billion
|
+3.3
|
$2.72 billion
|
+6.8
|
|
Bangladesh
|
1.41 billion
|
+2.2
|
$3.19 billion
|
-5.2
|
|
Indonesia
|
1.00 billion
|
-6.1
|
$2.83 billion
|
-5.1
|
|
Korea
|
938 million
|
+1.5
|
$504 million
|
-4.3
|
|
Honduras
|
630 million
|
+0.1
|
$1.45 billion
|
-1.6
|
|
Canada
|
614 million
|
-4.4
|
$708 million
|
-3.9
|