Quota-free retail industry

With textile and clothing import quotas due to expire at the end of this month, importers and textile and apparel manufacturers are making far-ranging strategic decisions as to how they will cope with a world of textile trade that, at the moment, is fraught with considerable uncertainty.

Interviews with industry leaders in both the domestic manufacturing and importing sectors highlight the fact that significant change is about to take place, and how and when it happens will shape the very future of the world's textile industry.