Global Apparel Sourcing Practices and Trends

Current Hot Issues 

How EU Fashion Companies Navigate Trump’s Tariffs (Updated November 2025)

Updated Impact of Increasing Tariffs on U.S. Fashion Companies’ Sourcing and Businesses (October 2025)

How Tariffs Affect U.S. Apparel Import Prices and Retail Prices? Evidence from Monthly Trade Data (2015-2024)

Outlook 2025–Key Issues to Shape Apparel Sourcing and Trade

New Study: Exploring India as an Apparel Sourcing Base for U.S. Fashion Companies

Explore U.S. Retailers’ Sourcing Strategies for Clothing Made from Recycled Textile Materials

Sourcing Strategy

Interview with Modaes (Spain) about the Shifting Global Apparel Trade and Sourcing Patterns (November 2025)

Gap Inc.’s Evolving Apparel Sourcing Base: 2021-2024

VF Corporation’s Evolving Apparel Sourcing Base: 2023-2024

New Study: PVH Corporation’s Evolving Apparel Sourcing Strategies

New Study: Exploring India as an Apparel Sourcing Base for U.S. Fashion Companies

Explore Mango’s Apparel Sourcing Strategies (Updated January 2023)

Utilization of US Trade Preference Programs–Why Fashion Companies Make the Sourcing Decisions They Do? (Video recording)

2022 USFIA Fashion Industry Benchmarking Study Released

What Do Fashion Companies Say about China As an Apparel Sourcing Base? (Updated June 2022)

Expand U.S. Apparel Sourcing from CAFTA-DR Members and Solve the Root Causes of Migration: Perspectives from U.S. Apparel Companies

Which apparel sourcing factors matter

Why Sourcing from China? A Case Study on VF Corporation’s Textile and Apparel Sourcing and Supply Chain Strategy

2021 USFIA Fashion Industry Benchmarking Study Released

Primark’s Global Sourcing for Apparel

Global Apparel Market and Trade—The Modern Cotton Story Podcast

ModCloth Sourcing and Supply Chain Strategies during the Pandemic

Which apparel sourcing factors matter?

New Reports: Time for Change & State of Fashion 2020 (Coronavirus update)

How might Covid-19 affect apparel sourcing and trade

New Report: Fashion’s New Must-have—Sustainable Sourcing at Scale

Battling the Trade War and COVID-19: Rethinking Global Supply Chains in a Time of Crisis

Interview with Modaes.es on the Latest Trends of Apparel Sourcing and Trade

North American Apparel Market Leaders Talk 

U.S. Apparel Retailers’ Shifting Sourcing Strategy for “Made in China” under the Shadow of the Tariff War

VF Sourcing Strategy (updated April 2019)

Demystify the “Made in the USA” Apparel Sourcing Strategy

Outlook 2019–Apparel Issues in the Year Ahead

Evolving Sourcing Strategies of U.S. Apparel Companies

Sourcing Strategy of Leading U.S. Fashion Brands and Apparel Retailers (updated May 2018) 

Apparel Sourcing in 2018: Results from the Just-Style State of Sourcing Survey

Apparel Sourcing in 2017: Results from the Just-Style State of Sourcing Survey

JCPenney’s Global Sourcing Practices

Sourcing Strategy of Leading U.S. Apparel Companies

Sustainability and Social Responsibility Issues in Sourcing

FASH455 Exclusive Interview with Avedis Seferian, President & CEO of Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP)

Recording: Due Diligence Education for Gen Z: Preparing Future Fashion Leaders for Sustainable and Socially Responsible Apparel Sourcing (2025 OECD Forum Side Session)

Study: Destinations of Dutch used textiles (February 2024)

What Does Sustainable Apparel Sourcing Mean for Generation Z?

Progress and Challenges in Apparel Supply Chain Traceability: A Case Study on ASKET

Used Clothing Trade Debate Continues in Kenya

What Is the Apparel Industry Doing To Tackle Climate Change? An Analysis of Corporate Filings 

2021 WTO Public Forum Session 105: Develop a more sustainable and transparent apparel supply chain in the Post-COVID world

California Garment Worker Protection Act (Senate Bill 62) Passed, and Debates Continue

The State of Apparel Supply Chain Transparency: A Case Study on VF Corporation

Rana Plaza six years on – A time for reflection

Shipping and logistics

Red Sea Attacks and the Global Textile and Apparel Trade (updated January 2024)

Video Discussion: How Companies Are Overhauling Supply Chains to Ease Bottlenecks?

Video Discussion: How Amazon Beat Supply Chain Chaos With Ships, Containers and Planes

Shipping Crisis and Supply Chain Disruptions: Impacts on Apparel Sourcing and Trade (updated Oct 2021)