"Automation in GarmentManufacturing-Its Likely impact on Advanced and Emerging Economies"


The first ever International Conference on "SteeringMature Business: A Leadership Challenge to Textile Industry" held onOctober 3rd and 4th in Ahmedabad, in the once so called Manchester of the East. There were over 200 plus industry leaders and stakeholders fromthe textile industry present on the occasion. The conference has been organisedby Fibre2fashion, the leading global B2Bwebsite for the textile, apparel and fashion industry in association withAhmedabad Management Association; a pioneer in the management movement.


Prof. Ashwin Thakkar from Department of Textile Technology, L. D. College ofEngineering, Ahmedabad began with a presentation which delved at length onthe trade shifts in the pre-quota period, i.e. before 1974; Quota period (MFAregime (1974-1994); Quota phase out period, ATC Regime (1994-2004) and finallythe post quota period when the present treaty came in to effect from 2005onwards.


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