Textiles and clothing are among the sectors where developing and least developing countries have the most to expand from multilateral trade liberalization. The Textile Monitoring Board (TMB), one of the adjudicator forums for disputes resolution under the accord, faces a significant challenge in...

This paper highlights and demonstrates the technical and economical impact of technical textiles in the industrially developed countries and their future contribution to the development of economics of newly developing countries, such as China, South East Asia, and North Africa etc. Pakistan...

The dismantling of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement by 2005 and China's forthcoming membership of the WTO, as the world's largest exporter of clothing, will alter profoundly international competition in textiles and clothing. A simulation of these two components of trade liberalization makes it...

This paper estimates the effective market-access granted under NAFTA in textiles and apparel taking into account the presence of rules of origin (RoO) by combining two approaches. First, we estimate the effect of tariff preferences and (RoO) on the border prices of Mexican final goods exported...

Vietnam has achieved notable export success in its textile and garment industry over the past decade. Such an outcome might at first appear puzzling in view of many obstacles in the way of export success: the country had hitherto experienced a long period of international commercial isolation;...

The changes in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) for the textiles, apparel, and agriculture sectors are relatively minor, although they reflect somewhat greater protectionism, particularly with textiles and apparel. In terms of the agriculture industry, the USMCA modestly...

China, GMOs, and world trade in agricultural and textile products China has always strived for self-sufficiency in farm products, particularly staple foods. Its rapid industrialization following its opening up to global markets during the past two decades has been making that more difficult, and...

Between 1230 and 1315 a large amount of Flemish and northern French cloth reached the market of Vic, a medium‐sized Catalan town to the north of Barcelona. Descriptions of cloth from a sample of over 1,000 wedding trousseaus reveal that common people were quite familiar with a wide selection...

This paper examines the extent of protectionism imposed on Hong Kong's textile and clothing exports. Given the quota system imposed on Hong Kong, it is argued that the quota did reflect the capacity of Hong Kong's export of textile and clothing