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Japan's apparel imports from China sees sharp rise in recent months

Japan’s monthly import was $*,***.*** million in July, $***.*** million in June and $*,***.*** million in May ****, but it jumped sharply to $*,***.*** million in August, according to Fibre2Fashion’s market insight tool TexPro. The inbound shipment slightly eased to $*,***,*** million in September and $*,***.*** million in October ****. But the gains remained intact to some extent.

The import has recorded robust growth in third quarter of this year. It rose to $*.*** billion in July-September **** against $*.* billion of April-June ****. Total import reached $**.*** billion in the first ten months of the current year. Japan’s apparel import from China last year was $**.*** billion, as per TexPro. If the trend of third quarter continues, Japan’s import of current year is expected to cross the last year’s figure.