Textiles and clothing

Textiles and clothing

The textiles and clothing advice programme

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

They're all I could find, and clothes are clothes.

Because I kept ahoundin' him for perfume... and clothes and face paint!

Dynamic products in the context of trade in textiles and clothing

Mr. Munir Ahmed, International Textile and Clothing Bureau

My mother sent yams and rice, and our old clothes, to his family.

Death, fear, flames, horror, and black clothes!

First, they provided food and clothing and sheltered the affected populations.

I had all that stuff, and it's gone.

And clothes. In these things we'd be spotted right away.

In the environment prevailing after the phasing out of all the quota restrictions on textiles and clothing trade in the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC), competition will intensify, and exporters of textiles and clothing will be subject to heavy pressure to cut prices.

(c) Supplies and material (uniforms, protective clothing, emergency kits)

I was asked to do a building, and I was given all the artifacts of clothing and drawings.

They said, They should stop making shoes and clothes.

To allow competitive textiles and clothing firms to grow in the post ATC phase, the introduction of new protectionist measures must be avoided.

Other exported goods are cotton, peanuts, wood products and apparel.

They're taking those bags and clothes as a sense of identity and social status.

Help continues in the form of supplies of medical items, clothing etc.

This legislation introduced a requirement that contract outworkers in the textile, clothing and footwear industry in Victoria receive the same minimum rates of pay applicable to employee outworkers.

Thus, in the post ATC competition environment, identifying dynamic products and diversifying into them are all the more important for developing countries exporting textiles and clothing.

Trade in textiles and clothing is still subject to considerably higher tariffs than other industrial goods, and these tariffs are therefore serious barriers to textiles and clothing exports.

Weaving was still unknown at the time and clothes were often made of furs.

Some of the main products for export are fruits, vegetables, flowers, handicrafts, cloths and others.

UNCTAD's work on new and dynamic sectors was encouraged, and other sectors such as environmental goods and services, as well as textiles and clothing in the post ATC setting, should also be considered.

In addition, labour intensive manufacturing of textile products and clothing has declined as a result of overseas competition.

Also, to extend duty free access to textiles and clothing from all LDCs, it is crucial to assist these countries in the post ATC context.

For years, as optimists see it, China has been the world s cheap assembly shop for shoes, clothing, and microwave ovens.

Of course, Chinese increasingly consume fancy new cars and designer clothes.

People stand in line for days and need daily supplies of food, water and dry clothes.

During the last two decades textiles and clothing constituted the second most dynamic product in world trade.

The expiry of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing on 1 January 2005 brought to an end the discriminatory trade regime that for over 40 years had governed and restrained textiles and clothing exports from developing countries.

Textiles and apparel came first, followed by luggage, dishes, toys, etc.

Food got only 8 of the extra money, clothing only 3 , and personal care 1 .

Strong growth also is evident in the production of edible oils, garments, organic sugar, meat processing, and steel.

The concentration of the textiles and clothing market in the major importing countries is making retailers very powerful.

A group of Teachers, Students and Parents of Teresian College, has organized groups to visit these people, to deliver food and clothing.

I remember the face, I remember the act, I remember the day, the pain, the drug in my drink, the torn clothes, the stolen money, the crashed car.

Global trade in textiles and clothing totalled 390 billion in 2003.

Exporters of textiles and clothing in developing countries often face uneconomical demands by these retailers.

(f) Monitoring developments in labour conditions and analysing implications for the textiles and clothing industry in developing countries

Fossil fuels are also essential for the creation of plastics and polymers, key ingredients in computers, entertainment devices and clothing.

At the same time, the sudden increase in exports of textiles and clothing from China following the expiry of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing has led to recent tensions, and some developed countries have called for safeguard measures.