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There are, of course, short term risks of some lost growth, perhaps of recession, in such sectors as agriculture or textiles.
Industries that have grown the most, however, are not raw materials but intermediary goods, such as chemicals, pulp, paper, and construction materials, and some manufactured goods, notably microbiology, pharmaceuticals, machinery, textiles, shoes, glass and porcelain.
Thanks to the Industrial Revolution, new technologies in cotton textiles, iron and steel, and transportation delivered steadily rising levels of labor productivity for the first time in history.
Even if Asia has succeeded by relentlessly exporting manufactures, today’s poorest countries, especially in Africa, can realistically export only agriculture and textiles.
Second, the advanced countries should open their markets to textiles and apparel (and other labor-intensive manufactures) from Africa, sectors in which Africa has a clear comparative advantage.
The canonical example of this phenomenon is textiles in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century India and Britain.
Many traditional industries, such as textiles and steel, are likely to face shrinking global markets and over-capacity, driven by demand shifts and environmental concerns.
If rich countries – in particular, the United States, the 25 members of the EU, and Japan – really want to help poor people, they will open their markets to what poor countries produce, especially textiles, apparel, agricultural products, and commodities.
Major Vietnamese exporters of seafood and steel have already been hit with new US tariffs,and additional sectors, such as textiles, could be next.
A progression of manufacturing industries – textiles, steel, automobiles – emerged from the ashes of the traditional craft and guild systems, transforming agrarian societies into urban ones.
Mexico’s traditionally strong industries, such as textiles, could not compete and were essentially wiped out; and incipient industries that had once shown great promise, such as consumer electronics, were crushed.
They can export jet engines, supercomputers, airplanes, computer chips of all kinds—just not textiles, agricultural products, or processed foods, the goods they can and do produce.
(Indeed, it has already had more than 11 years to adjust to liberalization of textiles.)
The private sector – focused on the production of home appliances, machinery equipment, construction materials, textiles, and food – accounts for more than 60% of Foshan’s GDP.
A typical Corporatist economy might contain thirty or so corporations – foods, heavy industry, textiles, chemicals, etc. – each encompassing raw materials, production, distribution, and retailing firms.
This turnaround comes despite South Africa’s protection of its labor-intensive sectors, such as clothing and textiles, through high tariffs.
In Western Europe and the United States, early capitalism drew huge numbers of young, single women into industries like textiles.
A recent International Labor Organization report estimates that 60-90% of existing low-paid jobs in textiles and clothing in several Asian countries might be automated away.
What had been an offshore European island with bad weather emerged as the world’s major economy, whose products, from textiles to railroad equipment, came to dominate world markets.
Roughly 50,000 North Korean workers are employed in 123 factories that produce about $450 million worth of goods (mainly textiles, shoes, and household goods).
That is not the case in basic industries like textiles, steel, or even automobiles.
In Mexico, trade eliminated the textiles industry and privatization killed off government jobs.
Hit hard by the US recession, sluggish growth in Europe, Argentina's collapse, low commodity prices, and protectionist barriers against farm products, steel and textiles, Brazil's economy will do well to grow 2% this year.
Most of what China and other developing countries produce and export are labor-intensive goods such as textiles and apparel.
Increasing trade between the US and Mexico moves both countries toward a greater degree of specialization and a finer division of labor in important industries like autos, where labor-intensive portions are increasingly accomplished in Mexico, and textiles, where high-tech spinning and weaving is increasingly done in the US, while Mexico carries out lower-tech cutting and sewing.
Developed country tariffs on imports of agricultural products, textiles, and clothing – the principal exports of most developing countries – remained between 5% and 8% in 2008, just 2-3 percentage points lower than in 1998.
None of the new state-owned factories (paper, cardboard, milk, urea, cement, textiles, and citric products) created in recent years is fully up and running, and nationalized companies (particularly the country’s oil refineries) have experienced declines in output and efficiency.
Southern European economies, heavily dependent on their textiles, clothing, and footwear sectors, began to face intense competition from cheaper Chinese imports.
Others will have to export furniture or textiles.
The same WTO-induced sectoral adjustment underlies the decline of steel and textiles in advanced countries such as the US.
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