Textile & Apparel Trade Policy

Latest:

Exclusive: Timeline of Trade Policy in the Biden Administration (2021-present)

Exclusive: Timeline of Trade Policy in the Trump Administration (2017-2021)

Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report on Trade Issues

US-China Tariff War and Apparel Sourcing: A Four-Year Review (September 2022)

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

USTR Webinar Series on CAFTA-DR Textiles and Apparel Provisions (2022)

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

Video discussion: How Fashion Companies Design Products To Avoid Tariffs

USTR Fiscal Year 2023 Goals and Objectives—Textile and Apparel

Video discussion: How Fashion Companies Design Products To Avoid Tariffs

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and Textiles and Apparel (Updated November 2021)

What Is A Worker-centered U.S. Trade Policy?

USITC Reports Economic Impacts of U.S. Free Trade Agreements

Apparel Sourcing and Trade: Washington Trade Policy Perspectives (June 2021)

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP): What Does it Mean for US Apparel Sourcing from Asia? (January 2021)

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and Textiles and Apparel (January 2021)

U.S. Textile and Apparel Trade Policy In General

What Is A Worker-centered U.S. Trade Policy?

Apparel Sourcing and Trade: Washington Trade Policy Perspectives (June 2021)

What Biden’s first 100 days say about his approach to trade (Just-Style)

U.S. Trade Policy and Textile and Apparel in 2018

Trade Issues Facing the U.S. Apparel and Retail Industry (September 2017)

Are U.S. Textile and Apparel Imports Using Free Trade Agreements?

Gail Strickler, Former Assistant US Trade Representative for Textiles, on Trump’s Trade Policy

Positions on Key Trade Issues: US Fashion Industry Association (USFIA) V.S. National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO)

Outlook for Trade Policy in the Trump Administration and Impact on the Textile and Apparel Industry: A Summary of Views from Experts

FASH455 Exclusive Interview with Julia K. Hughes, President of the United States Fashion Industry Association

The Percent of U.S. Apparel Imports Entering under Free Trade Agreements Fell to a Record Low Level in 2015

Textile and Apparel Sector in the 2016 U.S. Trade Policy Agenda

Textile and Apparel Trade: Key Terms

Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR)

USTR Webinar Series on CAFTA-DR Textiles and Apparel Provisions (2022)

New Study: Expand U.S. Apparel Sourcing from CAFTA-DR Members and Solve the Root Causes of Migration: Perspectives from U.S. Apparel Companies (2022)

Sourcing Apparel from the CAFTA-DR Region—The Modern Cotton Story Podcast

US Apparel Sourcing from USMCA and CAFTA-DR: How Much Import Duties Were Saved and For Which Products?

Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)

China’s Membership in CPTPP Could Threaten the Survival of the US Textile Industry

CPTPP Tariff Phaseout Schedule for Textiles and Apparel

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and Textiles and Apparel (Updated November 2021)

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP): What Does it Mean for US Apparel Sourcing from Asia? (January 2021)

UK & Brexit

US-UK Free Trade Agreement: What Does it Mean for the Apparel Industry?

UK’s Apparel Sourcing Patterns under the Shadow of Brexit

No-Deal Brexit: UK’s Import Tariff Rates for Apparel Products

U.S. Section 301 Action against China (2018–present) 

Textile and Apparel Products Covered by the U.S.-China Tariff War Reference List (updated December 2020)

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

U.S. Textile and Apparel Industry is NOT Immune to the U.S.-China Tariff War

U.S. Textile and Apparel Industry Responds to Trump’s Tariff Announcement against China

The Section 301 Investigation against China Divides the U.S. Textile Industry and U.S. Fashion Brands and Retailers

African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)

USTR Releases Negotiating Objectives of the Proposed U.S.-Kenya Free Trade Agreement

USITC Report: U.S. Apparel Sourcing under African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)

USITC Report: AGOA and the Third-country Fabric Provisions Critical for U.S. Apparel Sourcing from sub-Saharan Africa

African Growth and Opportunity Act and Textile & Apparel

Does AGOA’s “third country fabric” provision discourage the development of Africa’s local textile industry?

U.S.-Japan Free Trade Agreement (2019–present)

U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement (updated September 2019)

USTR Releases Negotiating Objectives of the Proposed U.S.-Japan Free Trade Agreement (USJTA)

U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA or NAFTA2.0)

USMCA: Changes for the Textile and Wearing Apparel Industries

USTR Factsheet: Textiles and Apparel and the US-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement (USMCA)

USITC Economic Assessment Report on USMCA—Textile and Apparel Sector Summary

New CRS Report: Textile and Apparel Sectors Disagree on Certain Provisions of the Proposed U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) Agreement

U.S. Textile and Apparel Industry Provided Assessment of the Impacts of USMCA (NAFTA2.0)

Apparel-specific rules of origin in NAFTA2.0 (US-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement, USMCA)

What Will Happen to the U.S. Textile and Apparel Industry if NAFTA Is Gone?

CRS Releases Report on NAFTA Renegotiation and US Textile Manufacturing

NAFTA Members’ Applied MFN Tariff Rates for Textile and Apparel in 2017

US Tables Proposal Aimed at Limiting the Yarn-Forward Exceptions in NAFTA Renegotiation

NAFTA Renegotiating Objectives Related to the Textile and Apparel Industry

US Textile and Apparel Industry and NAFTA: Key Statistics (updated July 2017)

USTR Hearings on the Renegotiation of NAFTA: Textile and Apparel Industry

US Textile and Apparel Industry Associations Comment on NAFTA Renegotiation

The Importance of CAFTA-DR and NAFTA to the U.S. Textile Industry

U.S.-EU Free Trade Agreement / Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP)

Textile and apparel and the Proposed U.S.-EU Free Trade Agreement (January 2019)

Potential Impact of the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) on Related Textile and Apparel Trade Flows

Why NCTO and Euratex Disagree on the Textile and Apparel Rules of Origin in T-TIP?

EU Textile and Apparel Industry Sees Commercial Opportunities in Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP)

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

CRS Releases Updated Study on the U.S. Textile Industry and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

Potential Impact of TPP on the Textile and Apparel Sector: A Summary of Recent Studies

Textile and Apparel (T&A)-Specific Rules of Origin in TPP—Apparel Products

U.S. Department of Commerce Releases Factsheet on TPP and the U.S. Textile and Apparel Industry

When Will TPP Take Effect? Let’s look at the History

Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)

Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program: An Overview