By Kristi Ellis
“The big news is that China was up 11 percent for the month,” said Julia Hughes, president of the U.S. Fashion Industry Association. “When you are the supplier with a 43 percent [U.S. apparel import market share for the month] and you are growing by double digits, you are definitely seeing a huge bump there. There are a lot of conversations about companies shifting out of China because their prices are going up, but clearly that didn’t affect their imports in June.”
