US imports apparel worth $3.5 bn from Cambodia in Jan-Sept 2022

23 Nov '22

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The US imported apparel worth $3.513 billion in the first three quarters of 2022. Trousers and shirts were the biggest contributors in Cambodia’s shipments to the US with a share of 31.06 per cent ($1.091 billion) of the total imports during the period under review. Along with jerseys, trousers and shorts contributed more than half of the total imports.

The import of trousers from Cambodia by the US was around one third of its total imports. Jerseys contributed 21.62 per cent ($759.570 million) in the same period. Both products collectively made up for 52.68 per cent share of the total imports. The other top items were babywear (8.31 per cent), nightwear (7.77 per cent), shirts (4.84 per cent), T-shirts (3.98 per cent), innerwear (3.52 per cent), dresses (3.26 per cent), coats (2.62 per cent) and swimwear (1.48 per cent), according to Fibre2Fashion’s market insight tool TexPro.

The imports during the first nine months of this year reached $3.590 billion, thus surpassing the total imports of $3.522 billion in 2021.

US’ imports from Cambodia have maintained a healthy growth year after year, which was not dampened by the COVID-19 disruption either. The imports were recorded at $2.164 billion in 2017, which grew to $2.447 billion in 2018 and $2.730 billion in 2019. They further increased to $2.953 billion in 2020 and jumped to $3.522 billion in 2021, as per TexPro.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (KUL)

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