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Clothes call: at midnight on December 31, WTO rules regulating the international trade in apparel are set to expire. If you think China is dominant now ...(Dispatches)
American Prospect, The, December, 2004 by McGarvey, Ayelish
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AT MIDNIGHT ON DECEMBER 31, AMERICANS will toast the new year with a drunken round of "Auld Lang Syne." On the other side of the globe, China will be celebrating by opening new facto ties more than 3,000 new textile and apparel factories that will begin their work as decade old quotas are lifted on China's access to the lucrative American marketplace.
Thousands of Chinese workers will file into position and fire up brand-new spinning, weaving, and sewing machines. Within hours, blouses, pants, towels, and bedding will be ready for shipment to U.S. stores like Wal-Mart and ...
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