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Wars have been fought, ships sunk, and broader trade wars initiated over
trade in textiles. No other industry comes close to matching the
significant role the textile sector has held in the history of trade.
Inventories of early sailing ships listed textiles as a vital part of
the cargo. Critical to the economic development of country after
country, the textile industry has provided both products and jobs needed
by humans around the world. In the early 2000s, almost every country in
the world produces textile goods, resulting in highly competitive
global market conditions.
Following industrialization of the textile sector in Europe and the
United States, the industry also began to spread to Asia and other parts
of the less-developed world. In country after country, the textile and
apparel industries became the first sector for nations as each moved
beyond an agrarian society. The nineteenth century was a period of
tremendous growth for the U.S. cotton industry, emerging as the
country's leading manufacturing industry prior to the Civil War. New
England textile mills developed and prospered. Trade in general among
nations expanded greatly, and a sense of international economic
interdependence developed. Expansion in the twentieth century bridged
the gaps between continents, creating the global textile and apparel
markets that exist in the twenty-first century.
Ironically, as soon as the industry began to develop in the states, they
applied restrictive measures on imports, similar to the British
restrictions they despised. By the late 1700s, Congress imposed tariffs
and embargoes on foreign cotton to protect American cotton production.
These early barriers on textile imports were a hint of later trade
policies for the sector.
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