Imported textiles and apparel account for 15 percent of the $160 billion trade deficit. Imports of textiles and apparel account for 4 out of every 10 bales of cotton consumed in the U.S. The historical growth rate of the U.S. market is one percent a year. Imports are increasing many times faster than this growth rate. We have a crisis. Passage and enactment of textile import control legislation is crucially important.