On July 1, Washington put into effect new country-of-origin rules on imported textiles and clothing.
FTAA, the United States would have to slash at its protection of textiles, clothing and farm products.
But most rely on textiles and clothing for a higher proportion of their manufactured exports than China does.
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The group owns a diverse portfolio of retail outlets centered on the low-price market, primarily selling textiles, clothing and footwear.
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The most popular purchases were textiles, clothing and footwear, suggesting that fashion bargains were top of many people's shopping lists.
Official Indian data show that in the first quarter of 2005, exports of textiles and clothing fell by an alarming 21%.
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Rich countries are particularly protectionist in many of the sectors where developing countries are best able to compete, such as agriculture, textiles and clothing.
They had ten years' warning of the demise of the World Trade Organisation Agreement on Textiles and Clothing that limited imports from developing countries.
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And last month, Argentina announced that it would follow restrictions on Brazilian steel by unilaterally imposing quotas on imports of Brazilian shoes (which have more than doubled this year), textiles and clothing.
Sanjay Lalbhai, the chairman of Arvind, a textiles maker and clothing retailer based in Ahmedabad, says such a move is "imminent" in his industry.
South African Ndebele art uses beads as an essential material for the adornment of aprons, clothing and textiles.
The painting captures the busy marketplace at the Souk des Etoffes in Tunisia, a place known for its textiles, rugs and clothing.
But that is not the same as its share of the world market since many countries, including the U.S., make some of their own clothing and textiles.
This showroom of locally designed clothing, textiles and accessories reveals strong Nordic influences, with ceramics and carved juniper wood used for homewares, and fabrics often adopting the patterns found in traditional Estonian folk dress.
He hoped to see the technology applied to clothing and interior textiles and other similar areas.
Green is the new black, at least for clothing companies providing environmentally friendly textiles.
Nordas says China accounts for 30% of the world exports in clothing and 22% of textiles (as of 2002), and that its share is indeed growing.
Four out of five firms that manufactured clothing, metal products, textiles and plastics in 1981 either closed or changed lines of business over the next decade.
Markl first became interested in the idea of producing an ethical clothing line when he was researching textiles factories in Honduras as part of his Ph.
There are at least a dozen ethnic minority tribes in the area, each with its own distinct clothing, arts and crafts, cuisines, textiles and music.
Trevor Little, a professor at the North Carolina State University college of textiles, reckons that the domestically-made share of the American clothing business will fall to about 25%, but stabilise there for the foreseeable future.
The textile industry, which has been suffering for many months, undone at first by the strong pound and since by thin demand in the shops, had more bad news this week when Courtaulds Textiles, a large manufacturer, said that it would probably cut 1, 200 jobs at Claremont Group, a clothing supplier to (currently troubled) Marks and Spencer which it bought a few weeks ago.
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