DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f1b7a9/the_clothesource_g) has announced the addition of the "The Clothesource Guide to Apparel Trade Regulations: 2012 Edition" report to their offering.

“The Clothesource Guide to Apparel Trade Regulations: 2012 Edition”

The fourth edition of the best-selling guide to the special rules affecting the world's apparel trade, with country-by-country explanations for what that means for buying from 191 different countries. And a brief explanation of the likely (and unlikely) changes in the next five years.

NEW 2012 edition

The Guide has now fully updated to reflect new EU and US agreements and to analyse the widely-held belief that a wave of protectionism has hit the world's clothing industry.

Trade Regulations on apparel are supposed to be difficult to understand. But understanding them has never been so important. Many traders expect further EU or US barriers against China to be built, the EU, Japan and Australia are stepping up the pace of duty-free trading with South East Asia, the EU is getting closer to free trade with India and more and more emerging-market garment makers want their government to get duty-free access to major importers.

Having a grasp of what's really happening with trade rules is crucial for anyone reviewing their strategies from 2011 to 2016, like:

• Businesses in developed countries looking at garment sources
• Businesses in emerging countries looking at their selling strategies
• Anybody advising garment buyers or sellers, or representing them. Such as governments, trade associations, or consultants The Clothesource Guide to Apparel Trade Regulations 2012 doesn't just explain current trade rules.
• The Guide explains then in language ordinary businesspeople can understand, and gives references to where details can be found
• The Guide looks at the commercial significance of those rules to the garment and textile industry, making it easy to find, for example, countries with identical rules for duty-free access to both the EU and US
• The Guide looks at the rules imposed by Japan, Canada and Australia as well as the EU and US
• The Guide provides guidelines to changes likely from 2010 to 2015.

The Clothesource Guide to Apparel Trade Regulations 2012 is an essential tool for managing any garment business from today to 2016

Key Topics Covered:

• Introduction
• The Basic Principles
• The major incentives and barriers:
• The major incentives and barriers: General access to other major importers
• Producer-Countries: Current options
• Country-specific trade barriers and trade preference agreements
• Likely Future changes to current arrangements
• Likely effect on sourcing destinations
• Summary of top hundred exporting countries' duty concessions and those concessions' value
• Appendix 1. Preference country lists
• Appendix 2: EU Rules of Origin
• List of Tables

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