2. Globalization in the Apparel and Textile Industries: What Is New and What Is Not?

Acknowledgements: Support for this research was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The authors are very grateful to Carolyn Evans of the New York Federal Reserve Board for providing us with preliminary results on quota fill rates arising from her research project as well as broader insights from her work. We also thank Soundouss Bouhia, Scott Garvin, and Muriel Peters for research assistance and participants at a series of Sloan Foundation Globalization Network workshops for comments on this research.