Of the $48.176 billion worth of apparels imported by the US during first half of this year, trousers & shorts topped with a share of 26.52 per cent. Together, the top three items; trousers & shorts, jerseys and T-shirts accounted for over 50 per cent of the total apparel import during the same period.

The US trousers & shorts imports increased by 37.31 per cent to $12.777 billion in the first six months of this year. Jerseys constituted the second largest apparel product with import of $7.533 billion or 15.64 per cent of the total import. The same trend was noted for last three years in terms of import value of the item during the first half. Jerseys import surged 37.08 per cent in January-June 2022 over the corresponding period of last year.

The import of T-shirts by the US was recorded at $4.658 billion (9.67 per cent) during the first half of current year. The import of top three items totaled 51.83 per cent of total apparel import in first half of this year. During January-June 2022, other major items of the US apparel imports were shirts (8.90 per cent), innerwear (8.45 per cent), dresses (6.54 per cent) baby wear (2.86 per cent), socks (2.63 per cent) and accessories (2.46 per cent).