When cotton is spun overseas, the value-add leaves with it — once. When it's spun in Yuma, that same dollar circulates through wages, suppliers, and the local tax base again and again.
Every pound of premium yarn carries roughly $1.76 of spinning value-add. The only question is which economy captures it.
American fiber ships out raw. The spinning margin is earned abroad, the wages are paid abroad, and the finished yarn is sold back to us at a premium. The dollar is gone the moment the bale leaves the port.
Spun at home, that $1.76 becomes American margin, American paychecks, and orders for American suppliers — then those dollars are spent again in the same community. Value stays and compounds.
A single domestic mill keeps an estimated $120M+ of value on American soil — and every node of the loop feeds the next.
Estimated value kept in the U.S. economy per domestic mill, rather than exported.
Direct mill jobs per facility — skilled, local, and hard to offshore again.
A short domestic loop replaces a 2,900-mile round trip — weeks become days.
Wages and supplier orders recirculate locally, multiplying each dollar's impact.
Figures are consistent with the Yu-Pima Cotton Initiative modeling used across this site (~$1.76/lb value-add; $120M+ retained and 400+ jobs per mill). Value-recirculation is illustrative of standard local-multiplier effects, not a guaranteed return.
Spinning is the step America gave away. Bringing it back is how the dollar — and the jobs — stay here.