Asia, Africa And Latin America Help Chinese Fabrics Export Duty Free To The United States

According to the statistics of the U.S. Department of Commerce, in August this year, the import volume of American textiles increased by 14.1%, while that of grey cloth increased by 31.4%, chemical fiber cloth accounted for 85.6%, cotton cloth import increased by 87.4%, chemical fiber cloth import increased by 25.5%, wool cloth import decreased by 25.3%, and vegetable fiber cloth import decreased by 41%.

In August, nearly one-third of the US's grey cloth imports came from China, with a total volume of 543 million square meters, up 61.48% year-on-year. Imports from India totaled 193 million square meters, an increase of 54.55%. Other sources included South Korea, Vietnam, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Turkey, Taiwan, China and Israel.

From January to August this year, the US grey cloth import volume reached 3.765 billion US dollars, an increase of 11% over the same period of last year. In August, U.S. clothing imports decreased by 2.7% year-on-year, and the growth of textile imports was mainly cloth and manufactured goods.

It is understood that there are long-term tax-free agreements between the United States and Haiti, Africa and Jordan, which do not restrict the cloth sources used in the imported clothing from these three sources, most of which are from China. From January to August this year, the United States imported 1.1 billion US dollars of clothing to Jordan, most of which used Chinese fabrics. US $0.75-0.7 billion was imported from the United States and the United States was not involved in any apparel imports from the United States. From January to August, the United States imported more than 450 million US dollars of clothing to Haiti, of which only 23% contained American yarn or fabric.

In addition, the United States imports 2.106 billion US dollars of clothing, all of which are duty-free. Most of them use Chinese fabrics, equivalent to 6 million bales of cotton. Foreign analysis agencies predict that the United States will import more than 5.5 billion U.S. cloth in 2020, exceeding the level before the epidemic, and China's share will account for a quarter.