“ Over 98% of the retail clothing sold in the United States is imported. This indicates a very high reliance on foreign textiles for the U.S. market”
We basically have no textile industry. Thank a Free Traitor.
Actually, the textile industry in America became non competitive. American textile companies couldn’t sell their products because prices were not competitive with world markets. When sales disappeared, manufacturing was no longer possible.
American companies sold their manufacturing equipment to new textile enterprises started up all over the world.
Isolationists living under rocks can’t grasp the concept of a world market. They can’t comprehend the fact that Americans are no longer required to perform the drudge textile jobs.
The isolationists can’t grasp the fact that the American textile industry actually came from England because Massachusetts had lots of river power and cheap labor. Massachusetts lost the Textile industry to North Carolina where cost of production was less expensive. North Carolins established the best School of Textiles in the world to support the citizenry and the industry.
However, rising costs, especially wages, were not competative with Bangladesh and even Ecuador. Alas, North Carolina lost the textile business. However, new and better industry was established and there were plenty of workers available. North Carolina thrives
Your response tells me you know little of industrial history.
Luddites are like that.