USA BRANDS PONDER SWITCH FROM CHINA – BUT RESOURCING WILL POSE TOUGH CHALLENGES
November 1st, 2018
THE ONGOING trade dispute between the USA and China could accelerate an existing trend of American apparel brands shifting their sourcing away from Chinese suppliers. Indeed, US fashion industry representatives were warned at a conference earlier this week that they need to prepare to establish new trading relationships in case Sino-American trading gets tougher still.
“I think that there is pretty much agreement across the [political] aisle that we have a problem with our bilateral trade with China,” Bill Jackson, assistant US Trade Representative for ...
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