Washington, DC – In the first six months of 2020, the US imported 8.8m mattresses, up by 39% on 2019. In June 2020, the monthly import figure flipped firmly back into positive territory, with a 63% increase on the same month in the previous year.
Figures from the US International Trade Commission show the number of imports was down 11% in May, when the US imported 131,000 fewer mattresses than in the same month in 2019.
There has been a considerable change in the origins of imports to the US in the past year, with the share of imports more widely spread among the top-10 exporting nations.