BRAZIL IS MAINSTAY OF LATIN AMERICA KNITTING INDUSTRY

BY PACIFICA GODDARD CHINA'S entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2002 and the recent end of quotas in the US and European markets have created gigantic changes in the textile industry worldwide, with developing markets like those in Latin America expected to suffer the most from these shifts. However in several countries in Latin America the knitwear industry is experiencing expansion instead of decline. "A gradual shift in the production of textiles has been taking place since the mid 1990's and it is now concentrated in Asia," said Alan ...


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