Walmart aisles are piled high with goods this holiday season, but one item sticks out: cotton T-shirts that were made in America and cost $12.98. The U.S. is awash in a sea of cheap imports that has destroyed much of the domestic apparel industry. In 2023, less than...

The U.S. Department of Commerce said in October that the U.S. economy remained strong with an increase in real gross domestic product (GDP) and a rise in wages and consumer spending. On a half-yearly basis, between January and June 2024, the U.S. imports of textiles...

MSC Resource Library Manager Tanya Wade will lead this session, which will cover how entrepreneurs and businesses can proceed with developing and producing a textile or apparel product here in the United States. Topics include domestic material sourcing options and...

As part of the company’s celebration of earning a spot on Furniture Today’s 2024 Reader Ranking, Precision Textiles is planting 2,500 pine trees across the state of North Carolina, focusing on areas that were devastated by Hurricane Helene in September.  ...

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in December for the ninth consecutive month and the 25th time in the last 26 months, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®. Textile Mills among seven industries...

On Dec. 19, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum announced an increase in tariffs on textiles and apparel imports and ended the practice of “border-skipping,” wherein many U.S. e-commerce sellers leveraged nearshoring to avoid tariffs on Chinese goods. Under the...