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While trades involving sewing – textiles, apparel, shoes – are not yet being automated much, it is probably only a matter of time before they are.
Central American textiles were also caught in a CAFTA snag.
Southern eurozone countries such as Italy and Spain have suffered from rising competition with China in textiles and light manufacturing industries.
It is more important to have a large number of workers capable of making widgets, designing textiles, administering health care, and splitting enzymes than to have a plethora of history or literature graduates.
And the textiles industry, recovering from a slowdown caused by the European crisis, is penetrating new export markets.
Countries were required to undertake only limited trade liberalization, with plenty of exceptions for socially sensitive sectors (agriculture, textiles, services).
Moreover, the relative abundance of well-educated workers implies low initial wages and the ability to compete internationally in labor-intensive manufacturing activities – for example, in footwear, textiles and garments, and electronic assembly – which can form the basis for export-led industrialization.
In the textiles industry, profits declined for the first time in ten years in 2008.
Consider the case of a textiles manufacturing center in Jiangsu province, dubbed the “silk capital” of China.
Three-quarters of the city’s GDP had been coming from textiles production.
Leveraging a mixture of administrative guidance and monetary incentives, the city government plans to reduce the share of garments in the output of textiles products by 25% in three years and to increase the industrial applications of chemical fibers, which promise much higher returns than apparel production.
Opening up trade in agriculture and textiles – and even providing preferences of the kind that are offered to other poor countries – would likely benefit directly the poor farmers who make up 70% of the population, as well as create new jobs.
A stronger renminbi would simply mean a switch in the US from China to lower-cost producers of textiles, apparel, and other goods.
The rise of new economic powers with lower costs made employment loss in old industries like textiles, iron and steel, and shipbuilding inevitable.
During the Industrial Revolution in Western Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the pioneers and innovators in textiles, steel, and railroads were not, on the whole, rewarded with immense riches: their profits were competed away.
The textiles exported the world over by these industries are deemed African exports when in reality they are now Chinese exports.)
Yes, apologists of outsourcing say, rich countries will lose low-skilled jobs in areas like textiles to low wage labor in China and elsewhere.
Americans might simply switch from buying Chinese textiles to imports from Bangladesh.
For example, the sanctions imposed in September 2017 on textiles, coal, and other exports are said to have reduced North Korean exports by 90%.
The first industrial revolution so reduced the cost of textiles that it led to a boom in demand, production, and employment.
Japan seized its opportunity in the years following World War II, using labor-intensive industries, such as textiles and simple electronics, to drive its economy until rising labor costs eroded its comparative advantage in those sectors.
The United Kingdom's economic transformation started with textiles.
Similarly, in the United States, cities like Boston, Baltimore, and Philadelphia became centers for producing textiles, garments, and shoes.
In the 1970s, the government set up industrial parks to process textiles and garments for export.
The core agenda is to stitch together a traditional free-trade agreement focused on industrial goods, agriculture, and textiles.
Iran exported more than $30 million in natural gas, motor way vehicles, textiles and foodstuffs to its Central Asian neighbors in 1993, more than three times the 1992 figures.
Other countries have also been trailblazers in building on what they have and moving up the value chain – for example, the difference between simple, low-value textiles and Egyptian organic cotton fiber is immense.
Consider the hypothetical example of full trade liberalization in textiles, which would have greatly asymmetric effects between, say, Sweden, with hardly any textile industry, and Portugal, with a substantial one.
Excessive wages destroy the labor-intensive upstream product stages too fast and also impairs other labor-intensive sectors like textiles, simple services, tourism, and construction.
Indeed, given competition from low-wage economies such as Bangladesh and Cambodia, Pakistan should abandon its focus on textiles altogether and expend much greater effort to develop its knowledge-based industries.
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