Released on = April 19, 2007, 12:45 am

Press Release Author = Namrata

Industry = Small Business

Press Release Summary = Fledgling textile and clothing industries in Sub-Saharan
Africa are finding it increasingly difficult to compete in the international textile
and clothing marketplace

Press Release Body = Post-Quota Scenarios in Textiles and Clothing: Sub-Saharan
African Producers Invest for Survival

Fledgling textile and clothing industries in Sub-Saharan Africa are finding it
increasingly difficult to compete in the international textile and clothing
marketplace. After four years of growth, their fortunes seem to have taken a
nose-dive in 2005 and 2006 following the global elimination of quotas at the end of
2004.

Between 2000 and 2003 US clothing imports from Sub-Saharan Africa rose in volume
terms by an average of 34.4% a year. But in 2004 growth slowed to 10.4%, and in 2005
US imports from the region fell by 14.4%. Since then the decline seems to have
accelerated. During January-March 2006 US clothing imports from Sub-Saharan Africa
were down by 22.4% compared with the equivalent period in 2005.

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