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The Flanarant: TPP - now the real fight starts
2015-10-06 12:08:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
On 5 October, the 12 countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) announced that their trade ministers had agreed a deal. But Mike Flanagan still doubts it will come into action this decade.
THE FLANARANT: Chaos in the world's trade agreements
2015-09-01 17:34:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The world garment trade was transformed in August, writes Mike Flanagan, with the biggest casualty likely to be India's plans to increase textile and clothing exports by 20% a year and create an extra 35m jobs by 2024.
Tags: trade
agreements
chaos
worlds
THE FLANARANT: What will Britain's Modern Slavery Act achieve?
2015-08-07 16:35:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Britain's Modern Slavery Act (MSA), which began coming into force on 31 July, sets new disclosure standards on an extraordinary number of garment businesses. But its legal niceities won't really determine the law's impact, believes Mike Flanagan, noting that public opinion matters more.
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modern
achieve
slavery
THE FLANARANT: When will Bangladesh take compliance seriously?
2015-07-17 15:12:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Are Bangladesh's garment factory owners about to destroy their extraordinary apparel success story? On the face of it, the question sounds absurd, writes Mike Flanagan. But neither the BGMEA nor the Bangladesh government have shown any real interest in developing a compliant garment industry.
Tags: compliance
bangladesh
flanarant
THE FLANARANT: Onshoring has labour compliance challenges too
2015-06-09 19:08:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Can mass-market clothing be made legally - or ethically - in the UK or the US if it's competing with low-wage production? Not according to Mike Flanagan, who calls Western labour practices "onshoring's dirty secret."
Tags: too
compliance
challenges
labour
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