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Competition in the U. S. Apparel Import Market

Department of Textiles and Consumer Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742

Jungpil Sul

Department of Textiles and Consumer Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742

The objectives of this study were to investigate changes in the U.S. apparel import market, using data from major exporting countries from 1967 to 1977. The major exporting countries were divided into five regions, and 12 apparel cate gories were selected for analysis. Markov analysis was used to project the market shares of the five regions from 1978 to the year 2000. A comparison of actual and projected market shares indicated that most of the major changes in market shares had occurred by 1977. The overall stability of import market shares was also shown by the fact that market shares in 1987 and 2000 were close for 10 of the 12 categories examined. The Far East was the major supplier to the U.S. for most apparel categories, followed by developing countries in other parts of the world. In contrast, Japan, Western Europe, and Canada have ceased to be major factors in the U.S. import market. The dominance of imports from the developing regions is not surprising in view of the labor-intensive nature of apparel produc tion.

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