US QUOTA CALL
January 1st, 2004
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERICAN organisations representing retailers and apparel importers have released a study claiming that the impending January 2005 demise of the country's clothing import quotas was a "well founded" proposition. The report was commissioned by the US Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel, the American Apparel & Footwear Association, the American Import Shippers Association, the National Retail Federation and the International Mass Retail Association. Their paper predicts this move will lower domestic clothing prices, ...
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