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Article: In Terms of Fibre Type, Cotton Dominated U.S. Apparel Imports in 2008 with a Share of 60.4%.
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- Journal of India
- Article date:
- September 15, 2009
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a1c8c5/trends_in_us_texti) has announced the addition of Textiles Intelligence's new report "Trends in U.S. Textile and Clothing Imports, 2009 Edition" to their offering.
U.S. imports of textiles and clothing fell for the first time in seven years in 2008 - by 5.2% to 50.4 bn sme (square metres equivalent) - after growing by an average of 8.4% per annum between 2001 and 2007. Within the 2008 total, imports of apparel fell by 2.7%, imports of made-up textiles by 5.4%, fabric imports by 9.3% and yarn imports by 11.1%. Of these four categories, apparel continued to account for the highest share of ...