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Importers Survey Shows Production Leaving China for Vietnam, Pakistan, Bangladesh

Editor’s Note: This article was originally written by Patrick Lamson-Hall for the Sourcing Journal. It is republished here with permission from the publication. The exodus continues, as importers who sell to major US retailers report plans to move out of China. They blame heightened raw materials costs, financing difficulties within China, and the increasingly difficult [...]

Brookings Institution Hosts Seminar on U.S.- Latin America Economic Relationship

On Thursday, April 5, WRAP’s Manager of Communication & Public Affairs Cori Sue Morris attended a seminar at the Brookings Institution titled “Beyond the Global Financial Crisis: The Future of U.S. – Latin American Economic Partnership.” Hosted in Brookings’s Falk Auditorium, the event featured speakers Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, Deputy Assistant for the Western Hemisphere at the [...]

WRAP’s Fire Safety Training Courses Continued Success Help Brands

On March 6, 2012, WRAP’s Saifullah Khawaja, Director of the Bangladesh Office, conducted yet another fire safety training course. The one-day training course was launched in 2011 as a way to help Bangladeshi factories prevent fires and improve fire safety measures, facilities, drills and planning. The course has been taught multiples times in Bangladesh and [...]

WRAP’s Monica Escobar-Hertzoff Conducts Webinar for U.S. Embassy in Peru

Monica Escobar-Hertzoff, WRAP’s Manager of Compliance & Training for the Americas, spoke in an informational webinar online that was broadcast to the United States Embassy in Lima, Peru, on March 28, 2012. Escobar-Hertzoff, a native of Colombia, conducted the webinar in Spanish, detailing the importance of social compliance to the export industry and explaining WRAP [...]