A group of U.S. senators recently urged the Biden administration to address troubling import trends in textile and apparel imports that threaten domestic manufacturers and the jobs they represent.
The U.S. textile industry employs approximately half a million Americans and is responsible for $39 billion in annual shipments. It is also a key supply chain for both defense materials and personal protective equipment used by medical workers – the kind America couldn’t source on its own when the COVID-19 pandemic descended in 2020.
