Following a 28.1 percent increase in 2021, U.S. footwear imports picked up the pace in the first two months of 2022, increasing a year-over-year 29.3 percent to 432.32 million pairs, according to the Commerce Department’s Office of Textiles & Apparel (OTEXA). Top supplier China saw its imports into the U.S. jump 40.9 percent year to…