Tag Archives: Apparel manufacturing

Donald Trump has levied sanctions against $50 billion worth of Chinese goods and threatened to implement $100 billion more on a variety of products — but absent from any of those sanctions would be the clothes that Ivanka Trump’s fashion line manufactures in China.

Among the many words that have been spent on the Brexit debate since Theresa May triggered Article 50 last year, one crops up time and time again: trade.

Rapid automation of production, closure of some noncompliant factories and the emergence of some other high-potential sectors have shrunk the total number of workers employed by the garment sector by 0.80 million over the last five years.

Suits and blazers have emerged as one of the most promising value-added apparel items from Bangladesh as local entrepreneurs train their focus on grabbing a share of the $52 billion tailoring market.