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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 [...]
Posted on April 25th, 2012 by wrapadmin
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Editor’s Note: This article was written by Shane Danaher for the Sourcing Journal and it is republished on the WRAP blog with the author’s permission. At a meeting last week between economic ministers and industry leaders from both India and a variety of African nations, it was announced that India and Africa would strive to [...]
Posted on April 4th, 2012 by wrapadmin
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Editor’s Note: This article was written by Ashley Vaughn for the Sourcing Journal and it is republished on the WRAP blog with the author’s permission. The government of Bangladesh plans to establish new special economic zones (SEZs) in various parts of the country in an effort to promote industrial manufacturing and services for export–specifically in [...]
Posted on March 26th, 2012 by wrapadmin
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Apparel supply chains can be affected by everything—from factory issues to the cost of transportation and everything in between. Fiber prices—most notably cotton and wool—experienced massive fluctuations throughout 2011 and into 2012, affecting the global apparel supply chain. After years of low prices, cotton prices reached historic highs in March of 2011 with a price [...]
Posted on March 23rd, 2012 by wrapadmin
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