Imports Of Denims Into USA From China From 2014 To 2017

China’s exports of apparel are on a decline but the situation varies from destination to destination . While, China has lost a large part of market share to Bangladesh in EU, it is not losing so much in the US where it continues to maintain hold – particularly in one segment. We analyse in the report below, the exports of jeans and other denim apparel to US from China from 2014-2017 .

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1. All Denims

It is to be seen that the imports of denims in USA from China is decreasing for all the four consecutive period from 2014 to 2017. The  imports of denims into USA from China for the period 2014 was close to 135.5 million pcs and the imports decreased about less than 2 % to about 133 million pcs in the year 2015, the imports further decreased about 8% to 124 million pcs in the year 2016. The imports of denim’s in the year 2017 was about 120 million pcs which was the result of decrease of 3% from the imports of 2016. The average price(usd / pc) increased about 2% from 7.4 in 2014 to 7.8 in 2017. So from 2014 to 2017, the total decrease in exports was about 10% in volume and 8% in value.

2. Men’s Jeans

The imports of men’s jeans into USA from China was almost the same for the year 2014 and 2015 with the slight fluctuations of less than 1 % from 30.84 million pcs in 2014 to 31.13 million pcs in 2015, further the imports of men’s jeans for the year 2016 and 2017 saw the same trend with a slight increase of about  2% to 32.87 million pcs in 2016 to 32.27 million pcs in 2017.

3. Women’s Jeans

The imports of women’s jeans into USA from China for the four consecutive year saw a  decrease from year to year, it is also to be seen that  the imports of women’s jeans is three times more than the men’s jeans for the all four consecutive period given below. The imports of women’s jeans in the year 2014 was about 105 million pcs  which saw a decrease of about more than 2% to 102 million pcs in the year 2015 , the imports further fell about 13% to about 89 million pcs in the year 2016, the least imports of women’s jeans was seen in the year 2017 with about 85 million pcs which was decrease of more than 4% to 85 million pcs . Over the three years , the total fall in imports comes to about 20% .

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