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Brazil: clothes production in decline as imports rise

06/12/2012

Brazil’s textile and apparel industry association, ABIT, has reported an increase of 9.4% in the value imports of clothes and textiles in the first ten months of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011, with the 2012 figure reaching $5.6 billion. Taken separately, imports of finished garments increased by 31.4% over the period to record a value...

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