Looking at consolidated trade data reveals a moderate gain in Japan's imports of chiefly-wool men's suits for the month of April, the first year-on-year rise in eight months, while for the first four months of the year, men's suit imports dropped.
Fabric orders for Japanese men's fabric weavers for the Autumn/Winter season were also disappointingly low.
Aggregate import volumes of men's jackets/blazers and trousers, for all fibres, jumped dramatically in April.
Despite this strength wool products continued to face increasing competition from cotton, synthetics and linen with imports of wool jackets and trousers falling for the month.
Women's wool outerwear, by contrast, recorded marked strength in imports for the month of April. Women's wool jackets, wool trousers and skirts all rose.
Worsted fabric imports continued a steady recovery trend during the first four months of the year. At the same time, Japan's total imports of raw wool including top and fine animal hair recorded a small increase in clean weight.
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