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India's strategic position in US industrial textiles market

The US has increasingly allocated most of its expenditure towards the defence, healthcare, and social sectors. The defence and healthcare sectors, in particular, use industrial textiles, and with Trump’s hope of rejuvenating the US manufacturing sector, industrial textiles will play a crucial role in building the US economy, which plans to be self-reliant in the future.

Exhibit *: Top ** exporters of industrial textiles to US in CY **** (Jan-Nov) (in $ mn)