Garment makers in Vietnam that are closely linked to Esquel Group continue exporting cotton clothes to the United States after Esquel is sanctioned. Two outlets report that three Vietnamese firms have shipped at least $5 million in cotton goods to the U.S. since Esquel was sanctioned in 2024.
Quartz and the Jerusalem Post describe similar findings: the companies’ ties to the blacklisted Chinese cotton group appear to enable ongoing sales, despite the sanctions. Both accounts focus on newly reported U.S. export activity rather than on prior public disclosure of those transactions. The reporting also highlights that the garment makers are still operating in a way that reaches the U.S. market with cotton goods. While both outlets identify the same scale of sales and the same basic timeframe, they differ mainly in emphasis, with Quartz framing the overall pattern of continued shipments and the Jerusalem Post focusing on how the linked firms “shirk sanctions” to sell clothes in the U.S.
Overall, the two reports converge on the same core point: even after Esquel faces sanctions, Vietnamese factories connected to the company have continued shipping cotton goods to the United States, reaching at least $5 million in sales since 2024.
