New guide book for fashion trade

A new guide for the fashion trade, "The Clothesource Guide to Apparel Trade Regulations: Second Edition" has been published. The guide provides a summary of agreements, quotas and penal import duties and is a publication of Research and Markets.

The guide taps into the importance for apparel buyers and sellers to keep on top of the changing rules on import duty and quotas, with a looming recession, and more and more talk of protectionism.

This best-selling Guide has been updated in November 2008 to include all agreements signed by the EU and US up to the end of October 2008, and to review commitments made during his campaign by US President-elect Obama.

It summarises the special duty concessions, quotas and penal import duties that the EU and US create to encourage or deter apparel imports from other countries.

The guide provides lists of countries eligible for duty free clothing access to the EU and/or US, including details of the 30 "double-barreled" concession countries, which qualify for duty-free access to both the EU and US. Also, the guide has lists of other trade concessions and barriers; analysis of the cost benefits to importers of the concessions or barriers each exporting country faces; and an outline both of concessions (like America's DR-CAFTA or the EU's Economic Partnership Agreements) and of barriers (like anti-dumping duty).

The price of the publication is €704 and can be ordered online at Research and Markets.