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The Spanish Textile Industry Sans ATC Quota Protection

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  • Lila J. Truett
  • Dale B. Truett

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The Spanish textile and apparel manufacturing sectors have been badly impacted by the global recession as well as the removal of quotas that were in place with the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC). This study employs a cost function to investigate the presence of scale economies and the interrelationships among inputs of domestic capital, labor, and intermediate goods as well as outsourced (imported) intermediate products for the Spanish textile industry in a global environment that has become increasingly competitive. While there is evidence of scale economies at low output levels, there is also some evidence consistent with diseconomies of scale at the highest output levels. All of the inputs appear to be substitutes for one another except for domestic capital and outsourced intermediate goods. An important finding is that the demands for both labor and domestic intermediate goods have become increasingly sensitive to the prices of outsourced inputs. The estimated coefficients of dummy variables indicate that reduced international trade restrictions have put downward pressure on unit cost for the industry in recent years. These results suggest that the Spanish textile industry and its domestic suppliers will be increasingly challenged by international competitive pressures.

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  • Lila J. Truett & Dale B. Truett, 2016. "The Spanish Textile Industry Sans ATC Quota Protection," International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(3), pages 357-376, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:irapec:v:30:y:2016:i:3:p:357-376
    DOI: 10.1080/02692171.2015.1105936
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