This study focuses on the adjustment challenges facing the textile and clothing industries across the globe. The analytical work was initially suggested during informal consultations between the OECD Trade Committee and Civil Society Organisations. It took two years of extensive discussions in...

Despite the imposition of temporary safeguard measures on Chinese exports by both the United States and the European Union in 2005, few countries other than China and India have increased their clothing exports in markets where Multi-Fiber Arrangement quotas had been removed, e.g. the European...