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Examine the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade?

1- How America has dominated the global Cotton Industry for 200 years?
2- The History of American Cotton?
3- How Cotton/Apparel comes to China?
4- Perverse effects and unintended consequences of apparel trade policy?
5- the apparel products finally encounters a free market?
6- How U.S. old apparel makes it to east Africa?
7- Discuss Globalization, The people, and Politics All that affected and created todays world of free markets.
8- Economic and political lessons emerge from globalization and todays world markets.
9- Free trade and the Competitive economic markets.
10- Trade and globalization debates of competitive markets; The opposing sides of globalization debate.
11- Politics, history and creative maneuvers to avoid market.
12- The historical and political webs of intrigue in which the markets are embedded.
13- The story of the wealth-enhancing possibilities of globalization in some settings but a cant win trap and markets seem to doom the economic future.
14- How all parties involved in the current evolvement of the globalization need each other.
15- Environmental sustainability to broader issues of trade and globalization.
16- Improve labor practices in the global marketplace.

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Examine the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade?

1- How America has dominated the global Cotton Industry for 200 years?

One of the prominent reasons is the subsidies given by US Government to its farmers. But there are many other factors which have led to the success of the US cotton industry. It is mainly due to farmer's entrepreneurial qualities and their adaptability towards changing environment. They have been dynamic in their strategies. Moreover it has been also the support of public policies that allow them to mitigate the important competitive risks inherent in the business of growing and selling cotton.
http://faculty.fairfield.edu/winston/The%20Travels%20of%20a%20t-shirt.pdf

2- The History of American Cotton?

In 1791, the U.S. share of world cotton production was almost too small to be counted and it produced just around 2 mn pounds . After that in10 years U.S. production increased 25 times. And by the outbreak of the Civil War, the South was producing more than a billion pounds per year approximately two-thirds of the total world production. Cotton production was overwhelmingly export oriented. From 1815 to 1860, cotton constituted approximately half of the value of all U.S. exports, and more than 70 percent of all cotton.

http://faculty.fairfield.edu/winston/The%20Travels%20of%20a%20t-shirt.pdf

3- How Cotton/Apparel comes to China?
Textile production has come to China because of cost effective labor and favorable Chinese government policies support.

4- Perverse effects and unintended consequences of apparel trade policy?

Following has been the negative consequences:
1) There has been decline in jobs in US, China and other parts of the world due to modernization.
2) US textile industry's competitiveness has reduced.
3) Trade has shifted to developing countries.

5- the apparel products finally encounters a free market?

At the end of year 2005 protectionism has reduced, there is free trade in US apparels. This is because of elimination of quota system.

6- How U.S. old apparel makes it to east Africa?

US old apparels are donated to ...

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