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 4.78 billion square meter equivalents in February 2020, down 16.0 percent from January and 11.0 percent from February 2019. Textile imports totaled 2.78 billion SME, down 17.8 percent for the month and 10.6 percent from the previous year, while apparel imports of 2.01 billion SME were down 13.0 percent from January and 11.6 percent from a year before.
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Overall Imports. Total year-to-date imports were 10.5 billion SME, down 9.9 percent from the previous year, as textile imports fell 8.8 percent to 6.15 billion SME and apparel imports fell 11.4 percent to 4.32 billion SME
For the year ending in February imports were 68.7 billion SME, down 0.8 percent from a year earlier, as textile imports increased 0.6 percent to 41.5 billion SME but apparel imports fell 3.0 percent to 27.2 billion SME.
Source Countries. OTEXA has reported the following statistics on textile and apparel imports from major source countries for February 2020.
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SME
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Monthly change %
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Annual change %
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$ Value
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Monthly change %
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Annual change %
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China
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1.76 billion
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-28.7
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-29.0
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$1.71 billion
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-30.8
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-42.0
|
|
India
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525.7 million
|
-2.3
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+13.7
|
$723.0 million
|
+0.5
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+7.7
|
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Vietnam
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437.1 million
|
-14.1
|
-2.6
|
$1.13 billion
|
-18.7
|
+2.6
|
|
Pakistan
|
219.9 million
|
-15.7
|
+9.4
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$223.6 million
|
-14.4
|
-1.9
|
|
Bangladesh
|
215.4 million
|
-11.1
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+1.4
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$542.5 million
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-14.9
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+3.6
|
|
Mexico
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206.5 million
|
+4.5
|
-5.0
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$334.5 million
|
+10.2
|
-5.8
|
|
Korea
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146.2 million
|
-22.1
|
-2.5
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$64.4 million
|
-19.8
|
-4.9
|
|
Indonesia
|
130.0 million
|
-15.0
|
-5.9
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$397.0 million
|
-10.8
|
-4.2
|
|
Cambodia
|
129.9 million
|
-6.1
|
+38.1
|
$291.2 million
|
-8.7
|
+40.2
|
|
Honduras
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83.7 million
|
+36.8
|
+7.0
|
$223.5 million
|
+44.0
|
+6.5
|
|
Canada
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80.0 million
|
-2.3
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+9.6
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$95.9 million
|
+14.1
|
+2.5
|
|
El Salvador
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61.9 million
|
+32.3
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-5.6
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$156.8 million
|
+29.6
|
+6.8
|
|
Taiwan
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52.9 million
|
-22.2
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-19.0
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37.9 million
|
-28.4
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-13.0
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