The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched an enhanced strategy to combat illicit trade and level the playing field for the American textile industry, which accounts for over 500,000 US jobs. Two of DHS’s agencies, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Homeland Security
US textile mills will consume just 1.74 million bales in the 2023-24 marketing year that ends in July, the lowest since 1885, which is one year before the Statue of Liberty was installed. “The US textile mills consumption figure is nearly 15 percent lower than the earlier marketing and even lower than the forecast of […]
US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has reintroduced the Fashioning Accountability and Building Real Institutional Change (FABRIC) Act to support domestic garment manufacturing and combat subminimum wages. Senator Gillibrand’s FABRIC Act seeks to offer protection to nearly 100,000 US apparel workers while at the same time rejuvenate the domestic apparel production industry. The