There was a rise of 31.9 per cent in the exports of cotton, wool, man-made fiber, silk blend, and non-cotton vegetable fiber textile and apparel products from countries like Vietnam and Korea to the US. This was disclosed by the Department of Commerce’s Office of Textiles and Apparel in the US.
The department has also reported that monthly imports of cotton, wool, man-made fiber, silk blend, and non-cotton vegetable fiber textile and apparel products totaled 5.68 billion square meter equivalents in October 2106 up 3.5 per cent from September and 1.4 per cent from October 2015.
