An Examination of Turkey's Textile and Apparel Industries Strengths and Weaknesses Compared with Its Primary Rivals India And China.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c28836 ) has announced the addition of The Shape of Things To Come - What Will the Textile, Clothing and Leather Industries Look Like in the Future? to their offering.

Presented by Robin Anson at the 9th World Congress of the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation, Istanbul, Turkey on October 4- 6, 2004.

Robin Anson presents an overview of the global textile and apparel industry and examines the strengths and weaknesses of the Turkish industry compared with its main competitors, especially in India and China, in the light of quota elimination.

Topics Covered
- How big is the market for textiles and apparel?
- What are the key issues?
- Who are the fastest growing players?
- What has been driving growth in regional trade
- Why did China have such an impact? This can be explained by looking
  briefly at the quota phase-out mechanism
- Let's take a closer look at what has happened to US imports...
- How has China been doing in the US market relative to Mexico?
- The rise of China at the expense of Mexico is particularly worrying
  for the US textile industry. How has the USA responded?
- The EU market
- Has the impact of quota elimination been over- hyped? Let's look at
  the quota phase-out mechanism
- Industries at risk
- So, how to compete?
- And the future for countries at risk?

List of Charts
- World trade in textiles and apparel, 1980, 1990 and 2002
- Leading textile and clothing import markets, 2002
- World's 15 leading textile exporters, 2002
- World's 15 leading clothing exporters, 2002
- World's 15 leading textile importers, 2002
- World's 15 leading clothing importers, 2002
- Global apparel trade: fastest growing trade flows, 1990- 2001
- Hourly labour costs in the textile industry, selected countries,
  2002
- Global apparel trade: fastest growing trade flows, 1990- 2001
- Trends in world textile and clothing trade, 1980- 2001
- US apparel imports from Mexico, 1996- 2001
- Trends in US textile and clothing imports from China and Mexico,
  1996- 2001
- Trends in US textile and clothing imports from China and Mexico,
  1996- 2002
- Trends in US textile and clothing imports from China, India, Mexico
  and Turkey
- Trends in EU textile and clothing imports from China, India,
  Romania and Turkey
- Importance of China in the world's leading textile and apparel
  markets 2002
- Quota phase- out programme: share of US imports integrated by 2004
- Trends in US textile and clothing import prices, 1983- 2002
- Fall in average price of US imports from China and from all sources
- Fall in average price of US imports from China and from all sources
- Growth in US textile and clothing imports from China, 1996- 2003
- Textile and clothing exports: China, India and Turkey, 2002

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