But in textiles and apparel, the story is not just “tariffs down, exports up.” It is a messy collision of unusually high baseline US clothing duties, a new and blunt reciprocal-tariff overlay, rule-of-origin politics, and enforcement and compliance realities that ultimately determine who actually gets orders. What follows is a sector-only deep dive, and a closer look at the conversations largely missing from mainstream coverage.
What exactly did the India–US framework do to textiles and apparel?
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