Beijing’s lead in apparel exports to the United States has been reduced in favor of other Asian nations, with reports and experts attributing the decline to a number of factors, including human rights abuses and the U.S.-China trade war.
China, the largest exporter of apparel to the United States, lost 16.4 percent of its share of the market from 2013 to 2023, while other exporters’s shares increased, particularly countries like Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, and Cambodia, according to a recent report by the United States International Trade Commission (USITC).
The report, published in September, found the decrease in the Chinese share of the market happened due to several reasons, the most important being tariffs imposed by Washington and China’s human rights violations against Uyghurs in forced labor camps in Xinjiang….