Two central issues are dealt with in the volume. The first is the positive question of the effects
of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) on the developing countries. The second is the …

Abstract On 31 July 1986 the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) expires. The MFA has
regulated the bulk of international trade in textiles and clothing for the last 10 years, outside …

Because developing countries generally have a comparative advantage in the production of
labor-intensive textiles and clothing, the liberalization of trade in these products is critical to …

HE complicated-and purposely opaque-arrangements that have regulated international
trade in textiles and clothing have been the subject of a lively debate and of much literature …

The effects on the UK economy of international trading policies for textiles and clothing are
investigated. Import restraints under the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) and barriers faced …

OES TRADE in textiles and clothing matter and for whom? Who are the major actors? In
what products do developing countries have most success? How significant is market …

The international trade in textiles slipped out of the General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade's (GATT) purview more than thirty years ago. Incited by the United States, several …

World trade in clothing has been governed for a long time by a range of quantitative
restrictions (QRs) under the Multi-fibre Arrangement (MFA) outside the GATT. The …

Simulations using a world clothing and textile trade model and a new set of estimates of tariff
equivalents suggest that the global welfare cost of the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) …

The textiles and clothing (T&C) industry is considered to be an opportunity for the
industrialization of developing countries in low value added goods. The industry is …