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Rags to Riches - Interview with James Arthurs
HOME > PAST ISSUE > QUESTION & ANSWER [Premium content]August 2004
On January 1, quotas will be abolished on garment exports. Consolidation is expected to be fast and brutal as major manufactuers consolidate in China and a handful of other countries. James Arthurs, president of US-based Gerber Technology, a top vendor of automated design, marking and cutting systems in the apparel industry, spoke to China Economic Review about the seachange to come in the sector. Excerpts:
Q: Are all these projections about massive increases in China garment exports right, or way off base?
A: Just to throw out a few statistics, China was exporting US$2 billion in 1980, by 1990 it was up to US$20 billion, and last year it was up to $52 billion so it's been very dramatic. And not just exports about 1980, the domestic textile business was about US$10 billion. Then in 1983, when [China] took textiles off rationing, like a phoenix from the ashes, the fashion industry ...
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