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4. The Transformation of the Textile and Apparel Sector After NAFTA

Author : Raúl Vázquez-López

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Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Based on the preparation of a database that estimates production output numbers, working hours, and their ratio for 5 branches and 27 categories of economic activity, this chapter analyses the evolution of the textile industry in Mexico in the 1994–2008 period, placing particular emphasis on the effects that the insertion of its main activities in global value chains has had on the sector’s structure. The shift-share type methodology reveals that the incipient process of upgrading following the signing of the NAFTA has had mixed results and was not based on a generalized technological transformation. At the same time, the use of the ECLAC’s Competitive Analysis of Nation’s (CAN) methodology for the top twenty export products in 2008 showed a sharp loss of competitiveness of the sector in the 2001–2008 period. The main finding was, therefore, to document the evolution of the global insertion of the Mexican textile and apparel industry from a panorama based on assembly-line style production with low value added to de-industrialization passing through a process of interrupted upgrading.

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Title: The Transformation of the Textile and Apparel Sector After NAFTA
Author: Raúl Vázquez-López
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: NAFTA and the Mexican Manufacturing Sector
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-55264-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-55265-7

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55265-7_4