The Office of Textiles and Apparel of the U.S. Department of Commerce announced on December 10 that U.S. imports of cotton, wool, silk blends, man-made fibers, and non-cotton plant fiber textiles and apparel decreased by 9.2% from the previous year to 4.3425 billion square meters (equivalent to At).
Unit: equivalent to one million square meters.
| All imported | 2009 | 2008 | Increase or decrease % | 2009 | 2008 | Increase or decrease % |
| Total | 4342.5 | 4782.2 | -9.2 | 38893.2 | 43121.8 | -9.8 |
| sha | 195.4 | 255.5 | -23.5 | 1959.5 | 2497.1 | -21.5 |
| Fabric | 598.5 | 641.2 | -6.7 | 6123.7 | 6700.1 | -8.6 |
| Clothing | 2073.3 | 2273.3 | -8.8 | 17931.3 | 19413.4 | -7.6 |
| Others | 1475.3 | 1612.2 | -8.5 | 12878.7 | 14511.2 | -11.2 |
| Cotton | ||||||
| Total | 1772.1 | NA | NA | NA | ||
| South Asia | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| EU15 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Turkey | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Israel | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
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