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 5.5 billion square meter equivalents in May, up 11.1 percent from April and 3.7 percent from May 2016. Textile imports totaled 3.35 billion SME, up 12.4 percent for the month and 3.8 percent from the previous year, while apparel imports of 2.14 billion SME were up 8.6 percent and 3.7 percent, respectively.
Overall Imports. Total year-to-date imports were 25.1 billion SME, up 2.6 percent from the previous year, as textile imports gained 2.7 percent to 14.6 billion SME and apparel imports rose 2.5 percent to 10.5 billion SME.
For the year ending in May imports were 63.6 billion SME, up 0.6 percent from a year earlier, as textile imports increased 1.2 percent to 36.4 billion SME and apparel imports slipped 0.4 percent to 27.2 billion SME.
Source Countries. OTEXA has reported the following statistics on textile and apparel imports from major source countries for May 2017.
| |
SME
|
Monthly change %
|
Annual change %
|
$ Value
|
Monthly change %
|
Annual change %
|
|
China
|
2.61 billion
|
+16.0
|
+6.0
|
$2.99 billion
|
+14.1
|
+0.8
|
|
India
|
464.3 million
|
+15.6
|
+13.9
|
$673.1 million
|
+7.5
|
+10.6
|
|
Vietnam
|
394.7 million
|
-2.9
|
+4.7
|
$932.9 million
|
+1.1
|
+1.7
|
|
Pakistan
|
240.0 million
|
+35.9
|
+9.3
|
$245.4 million
|
+28.8
|
+4.4
|
|
Mexico
|
224.1 million
|
+10.2
|
+7.1
|
$424.3 million
|
+21.7
|
+15.4
|
|
Bangladesh
|
201.0 million
|
+8.9
|
+6.9
|
$425.2 million
|
+7.7
|
-1.2
|
|
Korea
|
147.4 million
|
+8.7
|
-0.4
|
$77.9 million
|
+13.4
|
+3.5
|
|
Indonesia
|
135.0 million
|
-4.1
|
-7.8
|
$374.0 million
|
-2.4
|
-8.7
|
|
Honduras
|
99.9 million
|
+15.1
|
+6.5
|
$225.4 million
|
+19.6
|
+3.5
|
|
Canada
|
96.0 million
|
+8.8
|
+1.5
|
$99.3 million
|
+4.6
|
-2.2
|
|
El Salvador
|
70.5 million
|
n/a
|
-4.2
|
$167.4 million
|
n/a
|
+2.4
|
|
Taiwan
|
66.8 million
|
n/a
|
-6.5
|
$55.3 million
|
n/a
|
-8.5
|
OTEXA has also reported the following statistics on textile and apparel imports from major source countries for the year-to-date in 2017.
|
|
SME
|
Change from 2016
|
$ value
|
Change from 2016
|
|
China
|
11.3 billion
|
+4.9
|
$13.5 billion
|
-4.5
|
|
India
|
2.17 billion
|
+7.6
|
$3.30 billion
|
+4.9
|
|
Vietnam
|
1.95 billion
|
+8.9
|
$4.70 billion
|
+4.9
|
|
Pakistan
|
1.05 billion
|
+1.6
|
$1.13 billion
|
+1.3
|
|
Mexico
|
1.03 billion
|
+2.9
|
$1.88 billion
|
+5.1
|
|
Bangladesh
|
1.02 billion
|
+2.5
|
$2.25 billion
|
-4.8
|
|
Indonesia
|
730 million
|
-5.0
|
$2.02 billion
|
-4.7
|
|
Korea
|
667 million
|
+2.5
|
$350 million
|
-4.7
|
|
Honduras
|
437 million
|
+4.7
|
$970 million
|
+1.2
|
|
Canada
|
436 million
|
-4.4
|
$495 million
|
-7.1
|