This paper estimates the costs of EU restraints on trade in textiles and clothing. After explaining the methods used, we examine the impact of an opening up of EU trade in textiles and clothing, inter alia to those economies where the textile and clothing (T&C) industries command sizeable shares...

The two misconceptions — that globalization is unprecedented, accelerating, and predetermined and that trade benefits everyone — form the central justifications for negotiating free trade agreements. In fact, there is little evidence to support either of these assumptions. When we begin to...