's two most prominent C&T-goods producing countries-Italy and Portugal. We explore these two countries' situation in a global … more oriented toward C&T-production activities which generate high value added, whereas Portugal was less productive and … relatively more specialized into the production of labor-intensive C&T-goods. Thus, Portugal was more prone to the rising …

of two major textile producing countries in the EU15, i.e. Italy and Portugal between the two years 1995 and 2009. As a …