COMMENT: Textile trade bans unlikely under President Obama
Author: just-style.com | 20 January 2009
The election of Barack Obama as the next president of the United States brought with it a mixed reaction from the US textile and apparel industries who, for the first time in eight years, must deal with the uncertainties of a new administration in Washington. But as Mike Flanagan explains here, protectionism is unlikely to be on the new president's agenda.
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