US Department Of Commerce: US Textile Imports Decreased By 18.9% In February

2009/4/10 0:00:00 27

The textile and clothing office of the US Department of Commerce announced in April 9th that the import of cotton, wool, silk blended, man-made fibres and non cotton plant fiber textiles and clothing in February decreased by 18.9% to 3 billion 278 million 600 thousand square meters in the United States last year.

Unit: equal to one million square meters.

	February			January to February
All imports	Two thousand and nine	Two thousand and eight	Increase or decrease%	Two thousand and nine	Two thousand and eight	Increase or decrease%
total	3278.6 4042.7 -18.9 7045.9 8176.5 -13.8
yarn	178.9 237.1 -24.5 369.1 485.7 -24.0
Textile	552.9 634.9 -12.9 1180.8 1344.3 -12.2
clothing	1527.6 1793.4 -14.8 3187.1 3578.1 -10.9
Other	1019.2 1377.3 -26.0 2308.9 2768.4 -16.6
All cotton
total	1455.4 1787.7 -18.6 3042.7 3542.7 -14.1
yarn	18.9 36.2 -47.8 37.6 71.3 -47.3
Textile	65.6 94.7 -30.7 155.9 193.9 -19.6
clothing	950.4 1154.5 -17.7 1966.5 2251.2 -12.6
Other	420.5 502.3 -16.3 882.7 1026.3 -14.0
hair
total	10.8 15.6 -30.8 23.8 34.1 -30.2
yarn	1.2 1.8 -33.3 3.3 4 -17.5
Textile	1.2 2.2 -45.5 2.4 4.9 -51.0
clothing	6.7 9.2 -27.2 14.2 19.7 -27.9
Other	1.7 2.4 -29.2 3.9 5.5 -29.1
Man-made fiber
total	1762.2 2153.8 -18.2 3864.2 4430.4 -12.8
yarn	158.7 199 -20.3 327.5 410 -20.1
Textile	484.5 523.9 -7.5 1017.1 1120.8 -9.3
clothing	536.1 575.4 -6.8 1131.5 1199.6 -5.7
Other	582.9 855.5 -31.9 1388.1 1700 -18.3
Selected countries (regions)
China	1218.4 1608 -24.2 2815.4 3271.4 -13.9
Taiwan, China	50.8 84.5 -39.9 113.6 175.6 -35.3
Hongkong Special Administrative Region	6.9 28.9 -76.1 19.4 64 -69.7
The Republic of Korea	113.1 138.2 -18.2 233.6 271.1 -13.8
Canada	97.4 114.6 -15.0 190.9 246 -22.4
Mexico	158.1 221.4 -28.6