India too has been keenly following all the developments during and post elections – after all US is one of those few nations with whom India enjoys trade surplus. If the recent analysis by Madan Sabnavis of CARE Ratings is anything to go

USA was down in its import volume by 13.68 per cent in Q3 ’20 from the same quarter of 2019; however Bangladesh and Vietnam still stayed positive on Y-o-Y basis in volume-terms, despite USA’s fall. Bangladesh was up in its value-wise ex

Even if Bangladesh fails to make immediate and any major breakthrough in apparel exports to China following the latter offering duty-free access to 97 per cent of Bangladeshi products, bringing in more investment from China looks very much

Is the world moving away from China which is heavily dependent on it in terms of apparel trade? The August statistics give a thorough answer to all these predictions.

As far as India and Bangladesh are concerned, there was a clear and significant surge in their respective cotton apparel exports to USA both value-wise and volume-wise in August ’20 over July ’20, while Bangladesh noted a surge even on

India and China faced significant decline in their unit prices of shipped garments to USA in May-August ’20 period, but Bangladesh surprisingly experienced increase in its unit prices!

All the major kidswear shippers to the USA such as India, Bangladesh and Vietnam remained positive in Q1 ’20 and fall started to take place in April and May, while some strong recovery can be seen in June for Bangladesh, Vietnam, China an

All top 5 WG jeans shippers to the USA – China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Cambodia – surged significantly in June ’20 over May ’20; although these fell drastically as compared to June ’19.

Here is the first half-yearly analysis of the USA apparel import and the performance of the major shippers during January-June ’20…