China's textile and apparel imports continue to show only nominal growth, but remained very sizable at 14.035 billion U.S. dollars through September. Asia is still the top supplier at 12.328 billion U.S. dollars, with Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong the leading countries. However, imports from Europe surged 25 percent to 1.62 billion U.S. dollars during January through September. Man-made fiber imports dominated imports at 6.578 billion U.S. dollars, while cotton product imports totaled 4.541 billion U.S. dollars.