The World in a T-Shirt
U.S. Town's Economy Shifts Away from T-Shirt Business()
April 28, 2005 Until recently, Florence, Ala., considered itself the T-shirt capital of the U.S. That was a few years ago, prior to a surge in cheap imports from China and other countries. Today, the T-shirt mills are all gone, along with all the jobs they once provided.
Behind Shanghai's Boom Is a Simple T-Shirt()
April 27, 2005 With the expiration of apparel quotas, China is expected to dominate the world T-shirt market. Many of those T-shirts are sewn in factories in and around Shanghai, China's busiest and fastest-growing city.
After 200 Years, U.S. Remains King of Cotton()
April 26, 2005 Much of the world's cotton comes from Texas, even though it's not a particularly great place to grow the crop. Big subsidies and heavy technology and R&D spending have helped the United States dominate the global cotton trade for two centuries.
