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GLOBAL APPAREL/CLOTHING EUROPE:

GLOBAL APPAREL/CLOTHING EUROPE:. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND PRODUCTION NETWORKS IN THE NEW EUROPEAN CLOTHING INDUSTRY. Convenors. John Pickles (UNC) Gary Gereffi (Duke University) Meenu Tewari (UNC) Adrian Smith (Queen Mary College, University of London). Sponsors.

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GLOBAL APPAREL/CLOTHING EUROPE:

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  1. GLOBAL APPAREL/CLOTHING EUROPE: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND PRODUCTION NETWORKS IN THE NEW EUROPEAN CLOTHING INDUSTRY

  2. Convenors • John Pickles (UNC) • Gary Gereffi (Duke University) • Meenu Tewari (UNC) • Adrian Smith (Queen Mary College, University of London)

  3. Sponsors • Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies • Center for European Studies • EU Center • University Center for International Studies • Carolina Asia Center • National Science Foundation

  4. Special thanks to… • Robert Jenkins (CSEEES) • Jeremy Pinkham (CSEEES) • Ruth Mitchell-Pitts (CES) • Gali Beeri (CES) • Meredith Clason (CSEEES) • Niklaus Steiner (UCIS)

  5. Global Apparel/Clothing Europe • The Challenge of Outsourcing: How Are We To Think About Industrial and Community Adjustment • I. North Carolina • II. The Role of the European Union • Post-quota/ Post-January 1 2005 Challenges • International Standards, Company Codes, and Fair Trading Initiatives • Competitive Pressure, Upgrading, and Regional Production Systems • Global Apparel/Clothing Europe – Lessons

  6. Central and East European Integration into GCCs • 1980sOutsourcing to Central/Eastern Europe • 1990s End of MFA and January 1 2005? • Globalization or/and regionalization? • The role of the EU and ‘state’ regulation? • Industrial and institutional legacies? • Labor markets • Trade unions and labor codes • Managerial skills, contacts, and know-how • Laws/regulations/institutions

  7. Does place matter? • “We will pay particular attention to the ways in which locally and regionally specific institutions, legacies, and norms make a difference in how the post-socialist European clothing industry is being inserted into pan-European and global production networks.”

  8. Central and East European Apparel

  9. Central and East European Apparel

  10. Global Apparel? • “China will dominate the world” IMF Survey • “U.S. textile companies have had 10 years to prepare for quota abolition. If they haven’t done so, they can’t come crawling to us for help.” • US official quoted in Financial Times July 2004 [just-style.com 23 August 2004]

  11. Ending of MFA… January 1 2005 WTO ReportThe Global Textile and Clothing Industry post the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing August 2004 “China and India will gain market share in EU, US, and Canada” “Proximity to major markets will be of increasing significance” “Other developing countries are catching up with China in terms of unit labor costs” That is: • 2005-> is about China and India • 2005-> is about complex inter-regional shifts in production networks and trade patterns

  12. Globalization, Delocalization, and Regionalization • Delocalization • Extended production networks • East European economic integration • Inter-regional shifts • Western Europe  Central Europe  Southeastern Europe • Upgrading, FDI, and new capacities • Trans-border triangular trade

  13. Some conceptual challenges… • competition • upgrading • regional production/trade regimes • domestic markets • diverse economies • governance lag • labor movements

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