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Vietnamese garment factory workers stitch apparel at a factory in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

From Relief to Alarm: Asia’s Exporters Read Between the Lines of New U.S. Tariffs

Exporters say the biggest surprise is not the tariff rates themselves: it is the new competitive map emerging underneath them.

By Mayu Saini

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Container ship.
Trade

Small Businesses Take on Trump’s Tariffs—Again

Kate Nishimura
Containers.
Trade

Trading Partners React to Trump’s Section 301 Duties With More Tariffs Brewing

Kate Nishimura
U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer speaks to reporters following a Senate Finance Committee hearing on July 22, 2026 in Washington, D.C.
Trade

Trump’s USTR Imposes Double-Digit Duties on Dozens of Nations Under Forced Labor Probe

Kate Nishimura

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President Donald Trump on July 19.
Trade

Trump’s Canada Tariffs Have Rattled the Industry, But Legal Experts Believe He’s All Bluster

Coats are sewn together at the main Canada Goose factory, Toronto.
Trade

Textiles and Apparel Targeted By Trump's 50% Tariffs on Canada

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Trade

Boohoo Legal Claims Over Sweatshop Scandal Rise to $329M

A thermal process called pyrolysis turns the textile waste on the left into the biochar seen on the right.
Sustainability

Goodwill Collaborates with Universities on Waste Diversion Project

Women's footwear in Rio Grande do Sul.
Trade

What Trump’s 25% Brazil Tariffs Could Mean for the American Footwear Sector

Record June cargo volumes reflect today's supply chain reality, where retailers increasingly move freight around tariffs and uncertainty related to fuel costs.
Logistics

Port of LA Cargo Volumes Signal Retailers Are Rewriting the Shipping Calendar

Eighty-eight brands launched dedicated resale programs in 2022, a 244 percent increase from 2021, says ThredUp’s 11th annual Resale Report.
Industry News

Fashion Apparel Resale Market Goes Mainstream

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This Year’s Tennis Strings at the Winston-Salem Open May Be Next Year’s Fashion

The first 500 fans to donate used tennis strings on the tournament’s opening day will receive complimentary admission.
Industry News

Shuffle Board: Kontoor Taps Past COO for Board, and Agility Robotics Preps for Public Listing with CFO Hire

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 14: Wrangler apparel is seen at Leon Bridges x Wrangler Collaboration Media Launch Event at Baby's All Right on September 14, 2022 in New York City.

Monthly Cotton Economic Newsletter: July 2026

Cotton Incorporated Monthly Economic Newsletter
Industry News

Gap Wants to Use AI Rendering to Create More Than Just a ‘Pretty Picture’

Gap officials say AI render makes beautiful pictures. But what if they have metadata too?
Trade

Do Trump’s Latest Comments Prove Plaintiffs’ Case Against Tariffs?

President Donald Trump speaks at General Motors in Milford, Mich. on Monday.
Shoe Industry News

Shipt Inks First Footwear Retail Partnership With DSW

DSW/Shipt delivery; DSW first Footwear retailer for Shipt
Sustainability

Portugal Exhibits New Biomaterials for Footwear in Sustainable Solutions Showcase

BioShoes4All brought together 69 partners working across sectors, including design, biological resources, leather, polymer, composites, chemical products, machine manufacturers, logistics and waste recovery.
Industry News

As Part of Net Zero Initiative, M&S Rolls Out Electric Trucks

The ten new vehicles are going to be deployed across M&S food and fashion and its home and beauty operations.
Industry News

Humanoid Robotics Entering the Apparel Workforce

The fleet of robots is using existing tools without costly facility modifications.
Industry News

CottonWorks’ New Report Maps 2028 Fashion Trends

S/S 2027 Ralph Lauren
Logistics

UP, Norfolk Southern Sweeten Merger Proposal With New Customer Protections

The new commitments include expanded gateway pricing and temporary access to competing rail service if performance slips after the merger.
Industry News

Tech Tuesday: Retail Technology and Strategies for Success

Zebra Technologies has released new findings from an ongoing research partnership with Oxford Economics, and the numbers make a strong case for updating old-fashioned frontline operations.
Retail

LoveShackFancy, Wrangler Team on Denim Capsule Collection

Some looks from the Wrangler x LoveShackFancy collaboration
Fashion Features

Ralph Lauren Launches Latest Artist in Residence Collaboration With Gee’s Bend Textile Artists

Claudia Pettway Charley and Loretta Pettway Bennett
Industry News

Lightspeed Partners with Meta to Link In-Store Sales With Online Ads

Lightspeed Commerce is partnering with Meta to offer a new interface for Lightspeed Retail customers.

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How Fashion Can Overcome Overproduction While Preserving Profitability

Source Fashion’s Suzanne Ellingham explained an alternative path available for companies to scale back production and better support the value chain.

Source Fashion director Suzanne Ellingham with Jasmin Malik Chua, climate and labor editor at Sourcing Journal
Fireside chat between Vadiraj Kulkarni, business head of Birla Cellulose, and Sarah Jones, senior editor, strategic content at Sourcing Journal

How Birla Cellulose is Greening the Value Chain with Next-Gen Fiber and Traceability Tech

Eileen Fisher's Business Case Sustainability

Eileen Fisher’s Business Case for Sustainability

Mitigating retail cybersecurity risk

Balancing Retail Growth and Cybersecurity Risk

SGS Fireside chat Material Innovation in Circular Fashion

Material Innovation and Verification in Circular Fashion

In conversation with Henry Wong, vice president of product development and marketing at AGI Denim.

AGI Denim Scales Clean Tech Across Operations to Maximize Impact and Efficiency

Retail Rx tariffs brand case study with Lafayette 148 co-founder and CEO Deirdre Quinn

The Tariff Effect: A Luxury Brand Case Study

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SJ Denim

Recycled Cotton Holds Strong

One area that mills hope will remain resilient is the denim industry’s commitment to circularity and recycled cotton.

Denim News

Recover Textile Systems
What's Next Kojima Jeans Street
SJ Denim

What’s Next for Kojima Jeans Street

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