Component
Cotton fabric
Woven or knit cotton cloth. US mills remain — Parkdale (yarn), Milliken, Elevate (Cone/Burlington), Glen Raven, Mount Vernon — for industrial, home, and technical cloth. Mass apparel fabric is still mostly imported; cotton in finished garments is the clothing node.
Criticality
Medium
Unit cost
$4K
Quality
55 / 100
US saturation
40.0
Made in US
400,000 tonnes
Current demand
1,000,000 tonnes
US exports
32,000 tonnes
Opportunity score
64.1
Domestic vs international supply
Planned US investment, next 5 years
$300M
Expected extra output: 150,000 tonnes per year