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The impact of EU trade policies on its textile and clothing imports : a comparison between India, Bangladesh, China, and Vietnam

Sharma, Toni; Bharti, Nalin - 2025

The European Union has implemented various trade policies in the textile and clothing sector, a major global employment generator, over the past three decades. This paper investigates how these evolving policies have impacted the four largest exporters of textiles and clothing to the EU. A...

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Four decades in the global apparel value chain : evidence from Bangladesh

Fakhruzzaman, Abul Bashar Mohammed - 2025

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The global textile and apparel value chain : from Mexico-US-China linkages to a global approach

Rodil-Marzábal, Óscar; Gómez Pérez, Ana Laura; … - 2022

The aim of this paper is to analyze the participation in the global textile and apparel value chain with special attention, first, to the case of three dynamic and interrelated economies (Mexico, the United States, and China); and second, to a general approach to a larger sample of countries...

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Textile Sector

2025

Textiles are Pakistan's most critical manufacturing sector, contributing nearly one‑fourth of the industrial value added and employing about 40 percent of the industrial labor force. It has the longest production chain and inherent potential for value addition at each processing stage, from...

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Effects of wage differentials, MFA, and GSP on exports in the Bangladesh textile and garment industry

Bhuyan, Md Iqbal; Oh, Keunyeob - 2024

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Securing institutional workers' power in the global garment industry: The ACT agreement's efforts to establish sectoral collective bargaining in Cambodia

Holl, Anna - 2024

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Securing institutional workers' power in the global garment industry : The ACT agreement's efforts to establish sectoral collective bargaining in Cambodia

Holl, Anna - 2024 - 1. Auflage 2024

Edition: 1. Auflage 2024

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Assortative matching of exporters and importers

Sugita, Yoichi; Teshima, Kensuke; Seira, Enrique - 2023

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Assortative matching of exporters and importers

Sugita, Yoichi; Teshima, Kensuke; Seira, Enrique - 2016

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The post MFA performance of developing Asia

Whalley, John - 2006

"This paper assesses the impact thus far that the termination of trade restrictions under the Multi Fibre Arrangement (MFA) which up to the end of 2004 applied to exports of clothing and textiles in key OECD markets has had on Asian suppliers. The speculation prior to MFA termination had been...

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The Post Mfa Performance of Developing Asia

Whalley, John - 2022

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The Post MFA Performance of Developing Asia

Whalley, John - 2006

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Trade restrictions, competition, and firm behavior : India's experience in the US market in the post-MFA era

Khan, Tanveer Ahmad - 2023

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Do Developing Countries Lose from the Mfa?

Trela, Irene; Whalley, John - 2021

This paper provides estimates of both national and global welfare costs of bilateral quotas on textiles and apparel using an applied general equilibrium model which covers bilateral quotas on exports of textiles and apparel negotiated between three major developed importing countries (the US,...

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Do Developing Countries Lose From the MFA?

Trela, Irene - 1988

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Export competitiveness of India's textiles and clothing sector in the United States

Kim, Misu - 2019

We analyzed India's export competitiveness in the textiles and clothing (T&C) sector in the United States. The T&C industry is traditionally important for the Indian economy due to its significant contribution to export, employment, and industrial production. However, the competition in the...

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Internal quota-allocation schemes and the costs of the MFA

Trela, Irene - 1995

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Internal Quota Allocation Schemes and the Costs of the Mfa

Trela, Irene; Whalley, John - 2021

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Internal Quota Allocation Schemes and the Costs of the MFA

Trela, Irene - 1991

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Spatial Exporters

Defever, Fabrice; Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - 2021

In this paper, we provide evidence that expanding firms tend to serve new markets which are geographically close and culturally related to their prior export destinations. We quantify the impact of this spatial pattern using a Chinese firm-level data set. To ensure an exogenous set of potential...

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Spatial Exporters

Defever, Fabrice - 2011

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Dynamic interactions between structure and performance in the textile and clothing industry in India : an econometric approach

Khan, Tanveer Ahmad; Chakraborty, Indrani - 2022

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Impact of the ATC on the performance and productivity of Indian apparel manufacturing

Gambhir, Dhwani - 2022

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Rent sharing in the multi-fibre arrangement : theory and evidence from US apparel imports from Hong Kong

Krishna, Kala - 1994

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Rent Sharing in the Multi-Fibre Arrangement : Theory and Evidence from Us Apparel Imports from Hong Kong

Krishna, Kala; Erzan, Refik; Tan, Ling-hui - 2021

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Rent Sharing in the Multi-Fibre Arrangement : Theory and Evidence from US Apparel Imports from Hong Kong

Krishna, Kala - 1991

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Tight Clothing : How the Mfa Affects Asian Apparel Exports

Evans, Carolyn L.; Harrigan, James - 2021

International trade in apparel and textiles is regulated by a system of bilateral tariffs and quotas known as the Multifiber Arrangement or MFA. Using a time series of detailed product-level data from the United States on the quotas and tariffs that comprise the MFA, we analyze how the MFA...

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Tight Clothing : How the MFA Affects Asian Apparel Exports

Evans, Carolyn L. - 2004

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Factors determining utilization of free trade agreements by indian textile and clothing companies : a conceptual framework model

Bajaj, Parul; Sharma, Anuj - 2022

The study focusses on the determinants to the use of trade agreements by Indian textile and clothing companies. A primary sample survey of 310 export companies was conducted in major clusters. Subsequently a conceptual framework model was developed to understand the various determinants...

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Book Review : Global Textiles and Clothing Trade

Lockett, James - 2021

Book review of Umair Hafeez Ghori, Global Textiles and Clothing Trade: Trade Policy Perspectives, Global Trade Law Series (Alphen aan den Rijn: Wolters Kluwer, 2012). The reviewer argues that Dr Umair Hafeez Ghori indebts us with a focused assessment of the contemporary trade policy dynamics of...

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Policy series effects on Bangladesh readymade garments exportation

Mostafiz, Fahmida; Sun, Jianquiang - 2022

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Learning by exporting : the role of competition

Pane, Deasy D. P.; Patunru, Arianto Arif - 2020

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Trade diversion and trade creation under ASEAN-India Free Trade Agreement (AIFTA) : a study of textile and clothing sector using Partial Equilibrium Model

Bajaj, Parul; Sharma, Anuj - 2022

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Trade impact of SADC-India FTA on textiles and clothing sectors

Jaswal, Isha; Narayanan, Badri - 2017

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Effects of trade liberalization on textile and apparel exports from Sub-Sahara Africa

Biesebroeck, Johannes van; Zaurino, Elena - 2019

This paper estimates the impact of market access liberalization in high-income countries on sub-Saharan African exports. The methodology exploits the large reduction in trade barriers that was induced by three unilateral trade liberalization initiatives: (1) the dismantling of the Multi-Fiber...

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Effects of Trade Liberalization on Textile and Apparel Exports from Sub-Sahara Africa

Biesebroeck, Johannes van - 2019

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Are trade preferences a panacea? : the African growth and opportunity act and African exports

Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Maemir, Hibret; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2019

Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade policy changes in the United States (US) to address this question. The expansion of Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) products for less developed countries in 1997 and the...

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Are trade preferences a Panacea? : the African Growth and Opportunity Act and African exports

Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Maemir, Hibret; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2019

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Regulating the post-independence textile trade : Anglo-Indian tariff negotiations from independence to the Multi-Fibre Arrangement

Morelli, Carlo J. - 2021

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Globalisation and the gender earnings gap : evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015

Robertson, Raymond; López Acevedo, Gladys; Savchenko, … - 2018

This paper focuses on how the forces of globalisation, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a...

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Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap : Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015

Robertson, Raymond - 2018

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Globalisation and the gender earnings gap : evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia

Robertson, Raymond; López Acevedo, Gladys; Savchenko, … - 2020

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Implications of export competitiveness, and performance of textile and clothing sector of Pakistan : pre and post quota analysis

Ahmad, Nawaz; Kalim, Rukhsana - 2014

Textile and Clothing sector of Pakistan has been facing different international trade reforms i.e. Multi-fiber Arrangements, Quota elimination and for some of the developing countries European union, introduced special trade arrangements like GSP plus to improve their balance of trade...

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Globalization and the gender earnings gap : evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia

Savchenko, Yevgeniya; López Acevedo, Gladys; … - 2016

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Globalization and the Gender Earnings Gap : Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia

Savchenko, Yevgeniya - 2017

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Globalization and the Gender Earnings Gap : Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia

Savchenko, Yevgeniya - 2016

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Female Wages in the Apparel Industry Post-Mfa : The Cases of Cambodia and Sri Lanka

Savchenko, Yevgeniya - 2017

The end of the Multi-fiber Arrangement/Agreement on Textiles and Clothing in 2005 was a major policy change that affected the allocation of global apparel productions well as the lives of workers involved in this sector. Since the apparel industry is often the major female employer in developing...

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Female Wages in the Apparel Industry Post-MFA : The Cases of Cambodia and Sri Lanka

Savchenko, Yevgeniya - 2012

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Can Indian-Afro relations sustain the growth of India T and C Industry?

Jaswal, Shivani; Garg, Tripti - 2019

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The Global Apparel Value Chain, Trade and the Crisis : Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries

Gereffi, G. - 2017

This paper examines the impact of two crises on the global apparel value chain: the World Trade Organization phase-out of the quota system for textiles and apparel in 2005, which provided access for many poor and small export-oriented economies to the markets of industrialized countries, and the...

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The Global Apparel Value Chain, Trade and the Crisis : Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries

Gereffi, Gary - 2010

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Quota removal and firm-level offshoring : theory and evidence

Tan, Yong; An, Liwei - 2019

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Changing revealed comparative advantage of textile and clothing sector of Pakistan : pre and post quota analysis

Ahmad, Nawaz; Kalim, Rukhsana - 2013

Many Asian countries have been beneficiaries of quota abolition for textile and clothing sector since 2005. After the implementation of the Agreement on Textile and Clothing (ATC) in December 2004, member countries of World Trade Organization (WTO) have quota-free trade except People's Republic...

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Nachhaltiger Konsum und Textilabkommen: Sollten Unternehmen und Konsumenten auf die Einhaltung von Mindeststandards verpflichtet werden?

Ferenschild, Sabine; Körzell, Stefan; Silberhorn, Thomas - 2016

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Rising to the Challenge : Asian Survivors of the Quota Expiry in Global Textiles and Clothing Trade

Ghori, Umair - 2016

Developing countries, including least developed countries (LDCs), extensively rely on textiles and clothing (T&C) industry for employment and export earnings. They face serious adjustment challenges in post – quota expiry period. The available statistics have proven that many pre-elimination...

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Differing impact of liberalisation : the case of vertically integrated clothing firms

Liaqat, Zara - 2018

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Winner or loser? : a post-quota case study of Pakistan's textiles and clothing exports

Ghori, Umair Hafeez - 2012

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Winner or Loser? A Post-Quota Case Study of Pakistan's Textiles and Clothing Exports

Ghori, Umair - 2016

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Multi Fibre Arrangement and wage inequality : firm and state-level evidence from India and a theoretical model

Kar, Mausumi; Kar, Saibal - 2017

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Eco-testing of textiles

Amutha, K.; Saranya, K. - 2017

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Globalization and the Gender Earnings Gap : Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia

López Acevedo, Gladys; Robertson, Raymond; Savchenko, … - 2016

Disasters in Bangladesh and protests elsewhere have created an intense debate about the value, particularly to women, of apparel employment in developing countries. This paper focuses on how the forces of globalization, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages...

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Implications for South Asian Countries of Abolishing the Multifibre Arrangement

Martin, Will - 2016

Modeling results suggest that South Asia as a whole will gain from the abolition of the quotas under the Multifibre Arrangement. Unambiguously, however, the gains from domestic reform will increase after the abolition of the Arrangement as export demand becomes more price responsive.Kathuria,...

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Bio-processing of textiles

Parameswari, G. Abinaya; Priya, M. V. Reenna - 2017

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India - Pakistan trade : textiles and clothing

Taneja, Nisha; Ray, Saon; Pande, Devyani - 2016

India and Pakistan are the leading textile trading nations in the world. Among the major sectors, the textile and clothing sector accounts for the largest share in trade between India and Pakistan chiefly because of the similarities in culture and the importance of the sector in their economies....

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Lessons learned from the phase-out of the MFA : moving from managed distortion to managed distortion

Hudson, Darren; Ethridge, Don E.; Mutuc, Maria Erlinda M. - 2011

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Perspectives for the textiles and clothing industry in Greece : past experience, outlook and policy implications

Dadakas, Dimitrios; Katranidēs, Stylianos D. - 2011

The liberalization of trade in Textiles and Clothing (T&C) had substantial adverse effects on the Greek T&C industry. The elimination of export quotas affected production levels, exports, prices and employment in the sector. Using past research results we explore how the MultiFiber Agreement...

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Agreement on Textiles and Clothing

2020

“The WTO Analytical Index” is an article-by-article guide to the interpretation and application of the WTO agreements by WTO bodies. It covers the jurisprudence of the WTO Appellate Body, panels and arbitrators as well as related decisions and other significant actions taken by other...

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Analysis of Transferable TQM Tools to Textile and Clothing Sectors

Kumar, Senthil - 2015

Textile & Clothing Industry in India accounts more than contribute more than 16% of Total Export items which significantly contributes the GDP growth of our country. After phasing out the multi- fibre agreement (MFA), Indian Apparel industry is facing so many challenges to compete with global...

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