Includes statistics on the used-clothes trade, including 127 gross used-clothes exporters and 181 importers in 1990 (with values, weights, average prices, and weights-per-capita), and some specifics of U.S. and Swedish imports and exports. Discussion of images of the trade in labor and popular...

Used clothes have to go somewhere, and commercial used clothes exports from industrial countries to LDCs have been growing rapidly, leading to public alarm. Used clothes have also been used as a form of commodity aid, similar to food aid. But used clothes are quite different from food, and...