Among the Andean states, there are fears that their textile sales to America will lose out to China's as the world textile trade deregulates this year.
Margaret McManus was laid off last year when the textile mill she worked for closed.
It shows that America is willing to shield its textile workers from foreign competition even after the mesh of quotas that currently trammel the global textile industry is undone next year.
James Stoppert, president of Cargill Dow Polymers, is hoping to build a polylactide plant that will start up in 2002 and produce 135, 000 tonnes a year for the textile and food-packaging markets.
James Stoppert, president of Cargill Dow Polymers, is hoping to build a polylactide plant that will start up in 2002 and produce 300 million pounds a year for the textile and food-packaging markets.
The Godiva coat was Mrs O'Connell's first commission after qualifying from a five-year part-time textile degree at Coventry University in 2008.
To pay for the shopping spree, he wants to spin off his textile operations into a separately listed company next year.
In South Africa, under pressure from trade unions, the government last year asked China to voluntarily limit textile exports, resuming quotas that were lifted in 2008.
And Indonesian textile firms are lobbying against the full implementation from next year of the free-trade agreement between China and the Association of South-East Asian Nations.
Mr Buffett has managed to deliver his investors an average return of just under 24% a year since 1965, when he bought a small textile mill called Berkshire Hathaway as his investment vehicle.
The textile firms in the north that have spent much of the past year bleating for protection are classic examples.
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Even so, Mr Morales reckons the economy could grow by about 3.5% this year, its best performance since 1998, thanks to high mineral prices, textile exports to the United States, and recovery in Brazil and Argentina.
The big design news in Stockholm this fall is the expansion of the flagship store of Svenskt Tenn, the 87-year-old home-furnishings label known for the modernist furniture and fantastical textile patterns of Austrian-born architect Josef Frank (1885-1967).
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