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Why Has the Arse Fallen Out of the Clothing Manufacturing Industry?
OCCASIONAL PAPER
The Australian Textiles Clothing and Footwear (TCF) industry is under the hammer. It has all the appearances of a dying industry, with media reports of redundancies, closures and collapses seeming to occur every week. It is an industry that has been researched and reported on at length with a view to keeping it viable in an environment of declining tariffs.