International Wool Textile Market News: In The First Two Months Of 2025, The U.S. Wool Textile Imports Show Growth

From January to February 2025, the import volume of American wool textile products totaled US $540 million, an increase of 8.3% year on year. Among them, the import volume of wool textile products from China totaled US $100 million, an increase of 13.8% year on year. The import situation of two major wool textile categories in the US market is quite different. The import value of wool knitted clothing is US $91.97 million, up 14.4% year on year, and the import value of wool woven clothing is US $230 million, down 0.5% year on year.

The regional share of American wool textile imports from January to February 2025

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Textiles and Clothing

From January to February 2025, Japan's wool textile product imports amounted to 20 billion yen (about 140 million dollars), down 10.9% year on year. In the same period, Japan imported 6.6 billion yen of wool textile products from China, down 16.8% year on year.

Regional share of Japan's wool textile imports from January to February 2025

Source: Ministry of Finance of Japan

In the first two months of 2025, EU wool textile imports (imports outside the EU) amounted to 640 million euros (about 730 million dollars), down 1.4% year on year. Among them, 230 million euros were imported from China, up 13.4% year on year.

The regional share of wool textile products imported from outside the EU from January to February 2025

Source: Eurostat

(Source: China Wool Textile Industry Association)