U.S. Textiles & apparel imports still down
For the first two months of 2021, U.S. apparel imports – which marked the beginning of factory shutdowns in Asia last year and a pickup in demand in the States this year as vaccines rolled out–still declined 13.84 percent year-on-year to a value of USD 10.92 billion, the Commerce Department's Office of Textiles & Apparel (OTEXA) reported.