China's Textile and Apparel Industry and the Global Market: Five Competitive Forces

摘要

The anticipated boost from the progressive elimination of U.S. and European Union (E.U.) trade quotas over the past years has not materialized for the Chinese textile and apparel industry. Although, China's textile and apparel industry gained market share in the U.S. and E.U., it did not make significant gains in the rest of the world in 2009. China's share of the global market jumped from 38.8% in 2001 to 47.1% in 2005, but has not risen since that period. In fact,