The volume of US clothing imports proceeded with its upward direction in October, both on a month to month and year-on-year premise, as retailers kept on recuperating from the pandemic lockdown and started to load up for the Christmas season. While shipment volumes from China were down on those a month earlier, the sourcing saw the increment for US on a year-on-year reason without precedent in 14 months.
The figures for October show a 5.17% expansion in volume against the same month last year and a 6.9% drop in an incentive to $6.93bn. Regarding individual supplier nations, six of the main ten saw their exports to the US increase on a year-on-year premise, with the biggest coming from Pakistan at 27.38% to 68m MM2.
China, by a wide margin, the biggest provider of textiles and apparel to the US, booked the fourth-biggest year-on-year pick up in shipment volumes at 11.16% to 1.03bn MM2. The expansion denotes China’s first month to month year-on-year increment since last year’s August. Volumes were, nonetheless, down from 1.04bn MM2 a month ago.
Vietnam, The second-biggest supplier, saw shipments increase up by 0.41% year-on-year to 359m MM2. This analyses to a 4.8% expansion a month ago to 362m MM2.
Out of the other top-ten, Bangladesh, the third-biggest provider of apparel to the US, recorded the second-most noteworthy increase at 17.23% to 196m MM2. Cambodia was not far behind regarding year-on-year increments, with a 16.06% ascent in shipment volumes to 119m MM2.
India was the only other nation to record an ascent at 8.99% to 97m MM2.
All except one of the best ten providers of textile and clothing to the US saw shipment volumes enhance prior year, with Indonesia recording the lone decay. Turkey recorded the biggest increment at 43.59% to 42 MM2, while China’s was up 26.71% to 3.8bn MM2.
