{"id":14220,"date":"2024-02-22T16:49:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T19:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fund.ar\/publicacion\/comparative-history-of-the-argentine-textile-apparel-industry-with-the-world\/"},"modified":"2024-04-23T13:03:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T16:03:44","slug":"comparative-history-of-the-argentine-textile-apparel-industry-with-the-world","status":"publish","type":"publicacion","link":"https:\/\/fund.ar\/en\/publicacion\/comparative-history-of-the-argentine-textile-apparel-industry-with-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparative history of the Argentine textile-apparel industry with the world."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Until the 20th century, the textile-apparel industry was centralized in developed countries, but after World War II production was delocalized to peripheral countries. What drove the transformations in this industry? How did its evolution affect the different countries that -like Argentina- participate in this global value chain?<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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How did the textile-apparel industry evolve?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The first relocations were to Japan during the 1950s and then during the 1960s and 1970s to the so-called “Asian tigers” (South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan). From 1980 onwards, the “dragons” (the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia) joined in, albeit with less success. Since 2000, Bangladesh and other countries in the region, such as India and Vietnam, have gained participation. Since 1990, <\/span>China<\/span> has been integrated into the world market as the main global exporter, a position it still holds today. Some companies also retained industrial links in developed countries: this is the case of <\/span>Germany<\/span> with the manufacture of technical textiles or <\/span>Italy<\/span> with the production of luxury apparel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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By 2019, 74% of the global value added of the industrial links, both textile and apparel, leather and footwear was generated in Asia. This figure has China as the main world power, with 44.3% of the global product. Within this continent, it is followed far behind by India (6.8% of the total) and Turkey (3.2%).<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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