International trade in textiles with special reference to South Asia

Abstract

This study has been primarily concerned with the issues and perspectives on the historical evolution and working of the arrangements governing international trade in "textiles", particularly the last such arrangement, popularly called Multi Fibre Agreement (MFA). While the problems of both the developed and the developing countries in the field of world trade in textiles and their implications for structural changes in the pattern of a more rational international division of labour have been discussed, special attention has been paid to the problems of the developing "textile" exporting countries with special reference to the Southeast Asian countries.