US levies threaten textile sustainability goals

WASHINGTON – US president has removed historical cost advantages of Asian textile and apparel production after penalising dozens of US global trading partners with sharply higher tariffs. (See table further down).

Countries such as Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, and Indonesia face the largest levy hikes with apparel and textile imports from China to the US at a 22-year low while the world’s largest supplier of textiles faces a separate deadline of 12^th August for a trade agreement to be negotiated.