Research Guides: Apparel and Textile Design: CTD 447 Class Guide

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This guide contains a selection of resources related to CTD447, Textiles and Apparel in International Trade. Use these resources to evaluate the country you are considering for production and select an apparel contractor.

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Global Road Warrior This link opens in a new window
Global Road Warrior consists of country guides covering a variety of topics including education, country facts, business culture, climate, life cycles, religion, food, health, electrical, transportation and more.
D&B Hoovers This link opens in a new window
D&B Hoovers, formerly OneSource Global Business Browser, provides access to industry analysis, company profiles, corporate families, key executives, and financial data.
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Gale In Context: Global Issues This link opens in a new window
Global Issues in Context integrates news, global viewpoints, reference, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics and more in a single search. It focuses on broad issues such as poverty and nuclear proliferation, and also covers targeted issues, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Syrian Civil War, Genetically Modified Foods, Internet Control and Security, and Privacy Rights.
Passport This link opens in a new window
Passport is a comprehensive system providing key business intelligence on countries, companies, markets and consumers, with statistics covering historical and forecasted data. Includes lifestyle indicators and analysis, market analysis, company profiles and market shares. Features historic and forecast statistics from 1977-2016, 5-year historic market size data, plus 5-year forecasts.
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CIA World Factbook
Country profiles include economy, demographics, political situation, etc.
Country Background Notes
Includes facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy and foreign relations of many nations.

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Scout This link opens in a new window
The University of Alabama's discovery service, searching content from hundreds of electronic databases, print resources from our library catalog, ebooks, videos, news and more.
Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Indexes business journals worldwide; covers marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, economics and more. Also includes financial data, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses. Includes the full text of articles from many publishers and links to full text options for other articles. 1886 to present. Updated daily.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Analyses for 700+ US industries. Includes global & specialized industry reports, risk rating reports and business environment profiles.

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China and "apparel industry"
China and apparel and outsourcing

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Mexico and "trade quota" and fabrics

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