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Cambodia's garment industry resilience put to the test
2019-09-10 13:04:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Cambodian garment industry has had a long run of good growth - but could this come to an end pending reviews by the EU and US into the country's access to key trade benefits? Jozef De Coster reports.
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Cambodia garment industry urges EU to maintain EBA trade benefits
2019-08-19 14:43:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The group that represents garment manufacturers in Cambodia is calling on the European Union (EU) to maintain the country's preferential access to the EU market under the Everything But Arms (EBA) trade scheme, noting a suspension will result in "significant" job losses in the country's garment and footwear industries.
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Cambodia garment industry welcomes policy to cut reliance on EU, US trade
2019-01-17 14:46:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has welcomed the introduction of a new policy to safeguard the country's traders should the EU and US follow through with threats to pull the country's access to preferential trade terms.
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The failure of the US garment industry - Part III - Reshoring Y/N
2018-11-06 19:00:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A 65-year strategy to force US consumers to buy made-in-US garments has been an all-time disaster, asserts David Birnbaum, with the result that the US garment industry is now in a state of failure. But the technology to create smart factories means reshoring has the potential to revolutionise the industry. The key question in this, the last in a three-part series, is: Will reshoring benefit the US garment industry?
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The failure of the US garment industry - Part II - Captive Customer Syndrome
2018-10-17 17:41:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
In the second article in a three-part series examining the failure of the US garment industry, David Birnbaum shows how US government policy to force consumers to buy made-in-America apparel succeeded in almost destroying domestic manufacturing.
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