{"id":30583,"date":"2026-08-17T12:43:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/chinas-34-category-us-retreat-could-reshape-apparel-sourcing\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T12:43:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:43:55","slug":"chinas-34-category-us-retreat-could-reshape-apparel-sourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/chinas-34-category-us-retreat-could-reshape-apparel-sourcing\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s 34-category US retreat could reshape apparel sourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.fibre2fashion.com\/Newsresource\/images\/312\/chatgpt-image-aug-17-4_324278.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h3>\t<strong>A $<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> billion loss spread everywhere<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>According to TexPro, US HS<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>\u2013<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> imports from the world fell <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent to $<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> billion in January\u2013May <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>. Imports from China dropped from about $<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> billion to $<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> billion. That $<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> billion decline was equivalent to nearly <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent of the entire $<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> billion contraction in the US market.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s share of the TexPro basket fell from <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent to <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent in one year, and from <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent in January\u2013May <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>. More importantly, the decline was not concentrated in a handful of labour-intensive products: China lost both value and share in all <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> four-digit knit and woven apparel headings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:'Aptos Narrow','Aptos',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt\">\t<span><strong>Table <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>: Largest China losses in US apparel imports, January\u2013May <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n        <ph name=\"Courtsey\"\/>&#13;\n    <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fibre2fashion.com\/news\/apparel-news\/china-s-34-category-us-retreat-could-reshape-apparel-sourcing-312701-newsdetails.htm\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $*.* billion loss spread everywhere According to TexPro, US HS**\u2013** imports from the world fell *.* per cent to $**.** billion in January\u2013May ****. Imports from China dropped from about $*.** billion to $*.** billion. That $*.** billion decline was equivalent to nearly ** per cent of the entire $*.** billion contraction in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}