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NCTO Advisory to the Trade — April 4, 2019
Free Trade Agreement Benefits and YOU

Free Trade Agreement Benefits and YOU Background The United States has 14 free trade agreements (FTAs) with 20 nations. Two — NAFTA with Mexico and Canada, and DR-CAFTA with six Central American/Caribbean partners — are regional.  The rest are bilateral, meaning they each are between the U.S. and one partner nation. All but two — […]

NCTO Advisory to the Trade — March 28, 2019
The USMCA, Side-by-Side Comparison with NAFTA

The USMCA, Side-by-Side Comparison with NAFTA Background In talks launched in August 2017, the Trump administration initiated a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the aim of improving the deal to better serve American manufacturing interests.  NCTO supported the renegotiation effort as a means to modernize the 24-year-old agreement and make […]

2019 State of the U.S. Textile Industry Address

WASHINGTON, DC – Outgoing 2018-19 National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) Chairman Marty Moran delivered the trade association’s 2019 State of the U.S. Textile Industry overview at NCTO’s 16th Annual Meeting on March 21st at the Capital Hilton in Washington, DC. Mr. Moran’s speech outlined (1) U.S. textile supply chain economic, employment and trade data, […]