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The EU Agreed to Make Fashion Brands Pay for Their Textile Waste
Extended producer responsibility for clothing is set to land in every member state — and the fee schedule, not the principle, is where the margin moves.
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How RFID Tags Track a Garment From Warehouse to Sales Floor
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The $2 Wage Rise Against the $9.99 Price Floor: Summer 2026 in One Number
Cambodia's 2026 garment wage rose $2 while union demands ran $22 higher; Bangladesh's base held flat. The price floor above them has not moved either.
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How RAIN RFID Tags Let a Stockroom Count Itself
A passive tag with no battery, read from meters away, is why apparel retailers can now count a backroom in minutes instead of a day — and why the same chip is turning up in blockchain pilots and returns fraud checks.
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From Saks in January to Papaya in Spring: The 2026 Chapter 11 Ledger
Apparel dominated the year's retail bankruptcy filings — Saks Global led in January, per the coverage Moody's and analysts flagged — and mid-2026's ledger shows the stress is structural, not seasonal.
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Asia's Share of US Clothing Imports Fell Below 71% in April Data
Per University of Delaware analysis of official figures updated in June, Asian countries supplied 70.2% of US apparel imports by value in April 2026, down from 72.0% a year earlier.
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A South Carolina Mill Town Counts Down: 120 Textile Jobs End April 3
Per the WARN notice reported in February, an Upstate South Carolina textile plant will permanently close, laying off more than 120 employees beginning April 3, 2026.
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Cotton's Spring Climb to 92.8 Cents Is Squeezing Basic Apparel Margins
USDA's price tracking shows the cotton A-Index rising from 82.6 to 92.8 cents per pound between early April and May 2026, tightening margins on the most cotton-dependent categories.
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Who Owns the 'Independent' Label: The Filings Tell a Simpler Story
From Guess's $1.4 billion deal with Authentic Brands to LVMH's $850 million Marc Jacobs exit, the ownership paper behind fashion's brand stories is public — and consistently surprising.
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What a Freight Rate Does to a $30 Shirt: The Spring Import Math
Transpacific container rates tracked by federal data determine the landed cost of every imported garment — and the spring season ships under the year's least predictable rates.