ITC to Analyze Apparel Industry in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Pakistan and Indonesia
The International Trade Commission will analyze the export competitiveness of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Pakistan and India, after a request from the U.S. trade representative. She asked the commission to track the apparel market shares of each of those countries in 2013, 2018 and 2023, and to describe the changing patterns in those market shares, including against other top suppliers of apparel.
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She asked for: "Country-specific profiles of the apparel industries in the above-listed countries, including information on investment, vertical integration, duty-free access to the U.S. market, wages and labor productivity, and sourcing of inputs, as well as an assessment of the export competitiveness of each country in the U.S. market considering major factors of competitiveness such as trade, industry structure, price and costs, product differentiation, and reliability, using available statistical and qualitative information."
She also asked the ITC to review others' work on what drives export competitiveness in the global apparel industry, and to connect that to these countries' apparel sectors.
The ITC will hold a public hearing for this investigation at 9:30 a.m. EST on March 7; requests to appear at that hearing should be filed at edis.usitc.gov by 5:15 p.m. on Feb. 21. The commission expects to submit its report by Aug. 30. The report won't include recommendations for policy changes.