The agreement they reached after all-day talks would give European textile and apparel makers time to adjust to China's growing dominance of the global textile and apparel trade.

In 2013 Mode Shanghai will collaborate with ENK International, the leading fashion apparel trade show producers headquartered in New York.

Most of the resumes move around the apparel trade.

As it happens, plurality may be the news from fashionable London, as the design scene here evolves beyond the stale and often monolithic nature of the apparel trade.

It's draw poker, and it has the apparel trade guessing.

That is considerably larger than the 341,000 working in financial services or the 122,000 in the apparel trade, according to the Federal Bureau of Labor.

Markdowns have been the downfall of the apparel trade over the last few years, and by keeping the fashions in demand and inventory tight, vanishing margins can be restored.

There already is in place a Multi-Fiber Arrangement, a system of quota agreements covering all international textile and apparel trade between the United States and foreign governments.

The senior Tarlow was editor and publisher of Teens & Boys, a trade publication for the apparel trade, and now at 76 still drops around his son's shop to write a few headlines.

African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2004 This act lowered tariffs and spurred apparel trade with many African countries.