Footwear

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Changes in 2019 from 2018: 

• U.S. total exports of footwear increased by $73 million (4.7 percent) to $1.6 billion. 
• U.S. imports of footwear increased by $551 million (2.1 percent) to $27.1 billion. 

 

After increasing by $129 million between 2017 and 2018, U.S. total exports of footwear rose by $73 million (4.7 percent) to $1.6 billion in 2019 (table FW.1). Re-exports[1] accounted for about one-third of U.S. total exports in 2019. U.S. imports of footwear increased by $551 million (2.1 percent) in 2019 (table FW.2). 

 

 

Vietnam and China were the top destination markets for U.S. footwear, accounting for a combined share of 47.3 percent of U.S. domestic exports in 2019 and more than doubling their 2015 combined share of 21.2 percent. U.S. domestic exports to China rose by $122 million (87.7 percent) to $262 million and domestic exports to Vietnam increased by $31 million (12.8 percent) to $274 million from 2018 to 2019. From 2015 to 2019, U.S. domestic exports to China increased by $186 million (243.6 percent) and those to Vietnam increased by $170 million (164.0 percent), with most of the increase in Vietnam taking place between 2016 and 2018.  

 

In 2015 and 2016, Canada was the top destination for U.S. footwear, but the country lost its position in 2017 to Vietnam. U.S. domestic exports to Canada fluctuated between 2015 and 2019 and fell by $4.7 million (3.0 percent) to $152.7 million in 2019. Emerging top markets for U.S. domestic exports of footwear include Hong Kong, Indonesia, and the Netherlands, all of which rose in rank between 2015 and 2019. 

 

 

 

U.S. imports of footwear increased by $551 million (2.1 percent) from 2018 to $27.1 billion in 2019, but that total was still less than the peak of the five-year period of $27.7 billion in 2015. China continued to be the top supplier of footwear products to the United States, accounting for almost half of total U.S. footwear imports, although this share declined consistently over the five-year period. U.S. imports from China declined by $604 million (4.3 percent) from $14.1 billion in 2018 to $13.5 billion in 2019. Vietnam continued to be the second leading supplier of U.S. imports of footwear, accounting for a larger share of imports than it did in 2015.[2] U.S. imports from Vietnam rose by $788 million (12.7 percent) to $7.0 billion in 2019.  

 

Cambodia became the fifth-largest supplier of footwear to the United States in 2019, up from being the seventh-largest supplier in 2018 and the ninth-largest supplier in 2015. Between 2018 and 2019, U.S. imports from Cambodia increased by $157 million (47.6 percent), the second-largest increase by value behind Vietnam.