US Footwear Imports Slide Continued in May, Led by China’s 38% Decline

As demand continued to wane from pandemic-depressed consumers and merchants, the slide in U.S. footwear imports went on unabated in May, according to the U.S. Commerce Department’s Office of Textiles & Apparel (OTEXA). For the first five months of the year, footwear imports dropped 25.15 percent in value compared to the same period in 2019…