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Interview | texfash
Trade Barriers on Second-Hand Clothing Disrupt a Globally Significant Reverse Supply Chain

Trade Barriers on Second-Hand Clothing Disrupt a Globally Significant Reverse Supply Chain

24 April 2025

The Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles (SMART) Association works towards strengthening economic opportunities by promoting the interdependence of the for-profit textile recycling industry segments and provides a common forum for networking, education and advocacy. SMART President Brian London dwells at length on the second-hand clothing waste and global trade.

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Commentary | texfash
India’s Trans-shipment Ban Serves as a Big Blow to Bangladesh’s Apparel Ambitions

India’s Trans-shipment Ban Serves as a Big Blow to Bangladesh’s Apparel Ambitions

21 April 2025

India’s withdrawal of the trans-shipment facility marks more than a bureaucratic hiccup—it represents a tectonic shift in South Asian trade geopolitics. At the heart of it lies the Bangladeshi apparel industry, now navigating increased costs, longer transit times, and geopolitical uncertainty. The episode underscores how strategic rivalry between India and China is beginning to shape—even weaponise—trade logistics and bilateral relationships.

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Report | texfash
Enabling Systemic Circularity and a Collective Push for Industry-Wide Change

Enabling Systemic Circularity and a Collective Push for Industry-Wide Change

18 April 2025

The path to circularity in fashion is not paved with singular solutions or isolated innovations. It is shaped by the willingness of stakeholders to come together, question assumptions, and collaborate in new ways. The ESCF project has shown that manufacturers, when given space and voice, are not just implementers—they are co-creators of the future. 

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Interview | texfash
Focus Should Be on Collective Responsibility that Foster Transparency and Shared Accountability

Focus Should Be on Collective Responsibility that Foster Transparency and Shared Accountability

17 April 2025

A major player in the Enabling Systemic Circularity in Fashion project of the Forum for the Future was leading apparel manufacturer, Crystal International Group. A spokesperson of the group talks about how brands and retailers can collaborate with their manufacturing partners in making the concept of circular fashion work in reality.

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Interview | texfash
Falling into the Blame Game Is Counter-Productive for all in the Value Chain

Falling into the Blame Game Is Counter-Productive for all in the Value Chain

16 April 2025

Taiwanese player Yee Chain International Ltd was a key participant in a project that sought to understand the systemic challenges that are stymieing the fashion industry’s efforts to go the whole hog. Chief Sustainability Officer, Martin Su, and Global Sustainability and Circularity Scaling Manager, Anett Soti, talk about ground truths in this engaging conversation.

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Commentary | texfash
If Deals Don't Work out, Garment Workers in Manufacturing Hubs Face a Bleak Future

If Deals Don't Work out, Garment Workers in Manufacturing Hubs Face a Bleak Future

9 April 2025

The Big Bro vice-like squeeze of the sweeping tariff hikes will soon be felt far beyond edgy boardrooms and uneasy stock exchanges, and there are sporadic reports of this already starting to take effect. For hundreds of thousands of garment workers—many in the factories across South and Southeast Asia, and Africa to a lesser extent—the arbitrary spike in trade tariffs will be a matter of life and death.

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Interview | texfash
Here's a Response to Anti-Wool Agenda: Transparency and Regenerative Sourcing

Here's a Response to Anti-Wool Agenda: Transparency and Regenerative Sourcing

8 April 2025

The future of fashion isn’t synthetic. It’s natural. It’s regenerative. And The Sheep Inc brand embodies and symbolises ideas from a carbon-negative supply chain, premium merino wool garments and regenerative farms to that word which is at the core of many debates in the fashion world: transparency.

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Analysis | texfash
Just Like 'China Plus One' of Earlier, the World Now Needs a 'US Plus One' Trade Policy

Just Like 'China Plus One' of Earlier, the World Now Needs a 'US Plus One' Trade Policy

8 April 2025

The lesson of the current US tariffs crisis roiling the trade world is this: you cannot keep relying on one country as your export destination. From now on it has to be ‘US Plus One’.

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Commentary | texfash
Better Cotton Remains in Denial a Year after Brazil Scandal Investigation by Earthsight

Better Cotton Remains in Denial a Year after Brazil Scandal Investigation by Earthsight

7 April 2025

In today's world people move from one outrage to the next with as much ease as they swipe left over to the next reel. Last year’s Brazil cotton controversy has resurfaced not only because it has been a year to the revelation, but also because Better Cotton is itself pursuing the thread. And, the loopholes in Better Cotton's damage control exercise that was pointed out by Earthsight remain yawning.

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Commentary | texfash
Trump Tariffs Threaten Growth, Investments and Development for Vulnerable Economies

Trump Tariffs Threaten Growth, Investments and Development for Vulnerable Economies

7 April 2025

Perspectives are varied, and it is not an open-and-shut case against US Prez Donald Trump as his political opponents would have us believe. The tariff calculations could be questionable and the unilateral announcement should be decried, but what’s amply clear is this: trade will never be the same again.

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