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Vietnam is turning up to be a bigger part of the U.S. market in 2014 with its total apparel imports in the first nine months picking up a 1.2 percentage point share gain, from 10 percent in 2013 to 11.3% in 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) data released last week.
In September, U.S. apparel imports from Vietnam totaled a record $914 million, a 22.7% increase over last September, bringing the year-to-date total 15.6% to almost $7 billion.
