ORIGIN LABELLING PROPOSAL COULD CAUSE MARKETING PROBLEMS FOR EU KNITWEAR SECTOR
February 2nd, 2011
BY LEE ADENDOORF, KEITH NUTHALL and MJ DESCHAMPS
EUROPEAN Union (EU) governments are facing a political crossroads on a key question whose answer will have an important impact on the EU knitwear sector - both manufacturers and retail. That is the issue of rules of origin and whether there should be an EU-wide law that says clothing and accessories (plus a wide range of other manufactured goods) should be sold with labels saying which country they are made in, if they are imported from outside the EU.
It is a sensitive question of course, and a complex one, ...
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