U.S. Apparel Imports in 2006-2008: China vs. South Asia - India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
27 January 2009 - US apparel imports from China surged in the last three years to the detriment of South Asian suppliers, especially in categories were quotas have been definitively eliminated in 2005. Where the United States continued imposing limits, however, US imports surged from India and to a lesser extent from Bangladesh. South Asia may now feel consequences of the removal of US barriers, as reflected by our statistical comparison of US category imports per origin.
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