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2009

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Asean & South Asia; Victims & Winners In Textiles & Clothing Trade After Quota Expiry, Umair Ghori Jun 2009

Asean & South Asia; Victims & Winners In Textiles & Clothing Trade After Quota Expiry, Umair Ghori

Umair H. Ghori

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Wto Nama Negotiations & The Global Textiles & Clothing Trade: Reconciling The Irreconcilable Amid The Financial Meltdown, Umair H. Ghori Jun 2009

Wto Nama Negotiations & The Global Textiles & Clothing Trade: Reconciling The Irreconcilable Amid The Financial Meltdown, Umair H. Ghori

Umair H. Ghori

Textiles & Clothing (T&C) is a sector of world trade that is critical to the sustenance of developing economies. This sector is not only important in terms of export earnings but also in terms of providing employment to millions of people. With the end of quotas on 1 January 2005, this sector was integrated into the GATT/WTO framework. This entailed a process of readjustment for many countries that are overwhelmingly dependent on T&C to sustain economic activities especially those that do not possess comparative advantage in T&C manufacturing and owed the existence of these industries solely on the basis of …