Toronto Taking Over North American Used-Clothing Market. Bob Fernandez.
by Fernandez, Bob; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 23Business. Publisher: Philadelphia Inquirer, 2004ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Free trade | Secondhand trade | Toronto (Ont.) | Used clothing industryDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Amid a worldwide glut of American used clothes, Toronto businessmen like Farokh Gahadali have carved out a profitable niche. He and dozens of other immigrant entrepreneurs buy tens of millions of pounds of used clothing from the United States for less than 20 cents a pound, sort the garments in industrial parks around Toronto, then ship items for resale in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) The article reveals that "used-clothing exports to Canada soared 615 percent over the past decade to 190 million pounds in 2003 as Americans--enjoying plummeting prices on new imported clothes--bought even more quantities. That's about 25 percent of the nation's clothing exports--more than 4,000 tractor trailer loads a year."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Toronto Taking Over North American Used-Clothing Market, Dec. 21, 2004; pp. n.p..
"Amid a worldwide glut of American used clothes, Toronto businessmen like Farokh Gahadali have carved out a profitable niche. He and dozens of other immigrant entrepreneurs buy tens of millions of pounds of used clothing from the United States for less than 20 cents a pound, sort the garments in industrial parks around Toronto, then ship items for resale in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) The article reveals that "used-clothing exports to Canada soared 615 percent over the past decade to 190 million pounds in 2003 as Americans--enjoying plummeting prices on new imported clothes--bought even more quantities. That's about 25 percent of the nation's clothing exports--more than 4,000 tractor trailer loads a year."
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