[PDF] The Future Of World Trade In Textiles And Apparel eBook

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 24,71 MB
Release : 2004-12-08
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ISBN : 9264018557

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In light of the elimination of import restrictions under the WTO at the end of 2004, this book identifies the most recent market developments throughout the entire supply chain and outlines the policy and regulatory challenges that are arising.

Author : Ellen Israel Rosen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 2002-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520233379

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"Making Sweatshops reveals the inexorable movement towards an open trading system, the shifting alignments of actors pushing for or opposing openness, and, most centrally, how trade policy promotes the globalization of apparel production, filling a gap in our understanding of these dynamics."—Richard P. Appelbaum, coauthor of Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry "A detailed examination of the role that trade policy plays in the process of globalization. Rosen provides a meticulous historical analysis of the textile/apparel industry, one of the world's most globalized industries and one of its most hot-button issues."—Stephen Cullenberg, coauthor of Transition and Development in India "Rosen shows how politics have always shaped the trade agenda from beginning to end, and she presents a most compelling case that if trade and the global economy are to foster justice and equality for the people of our world, we will need to rewrite the existing rules of global trade."—Charles Kernaghan, director of the National Labor Committee "This book delves deep into the industry's trade journals, congressional testimony, newspaper accounts, and economic and political scholarship of the last fifty-five years to tell the story of U.S. trade policy and the decline of labor standards in the apparel industry. This patient and voluminous examination systematically reveals, for the first time, how the U.S. sacrificed its apparel workers on the altar, first of the anti-Communist crusade, and then of free trade ideology."—Robert J.S. Ross, PhD, Professor of Sociology and Director, International Studies Stream, Clark University "Making Sweatshops is, in part, a history of the apparel and textile industries in the U.S. and the world. But it is much more than that. It is also about power and globalization. Rosen explains how the former shapes the latter, and how workers around the world suffer because of it. Activists, policy makers, consumers--anyone interested in understanding why sweatshops exist--should read this book."—Bruce Raynor, President, Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (Unite) "Rosen convincingly demonstrates that it is the transnational corporations rather than the consumers, and certainly rather than the workers, who benefit from trade liberalization, whose rules the lobbyists for these very coporations more or less write for supine politicians. This is a book in the great tradition of solid scholarship allied with deep commitment to the cause of global economic justice."—Leslie Sklair, author of Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives

Author : Umair Hafeez Ghori
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041142010

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The author presents substantial case studies of the effect of the abolition of quotas on global trade in this sector. Concentrating mainly on China and Pakistan but also examining India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and seven other Asian T&C manufacturing countries, he contrasts post-abolition reality with pre-abolition predictions of the impact of abolishing quotas, and details the continuing distortion caused by tariffs, non-tariff barriers and through trade remedies such as safeguards and anti-dumping. All of the analysis is supported by the judicious use and interpretation of extensive statistics, compelling arguments, and interviews with entrepreneurs and trade officials in Pakistan (as a case study of a country predicted to be a major beneficiary of quota expiry).

Author : K. Lal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2009-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230246206

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An in-depth look at the critical question of the role of international trade rules and capacity building initiatives in the growth of textiles and clothing in developing countries. It looks into several aspects that could explain the differential export performance of the textiles and clothing industry in several developing countries.

Author : Kitty G. Dickerson
Publisher : Macmillan College
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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One of the most widely-adopted sources for current and authoritative information for international textile and apparel economics.