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US jeans makers slapped with triple duty

Just as the US jeans industry was getting back to healthy profitability, it is being dealt a big blow by the EU: From tomorrow, May 1, the European Union will start collecting 26 percent more import duty on all women’s jeans made in the US. This means that the tariff on women’s denims will more than triple from currently 12 percent to 38...