Summary of UK Apparel Industries experience:

·         As a most developed country, national output and trade currently made by apparel industry has a very small contribution.

·         The forces of global shifts in the sectors are extremely powerful, reflecting a natural tendency for apparel manufacture to act as an engine of development in newly industrialising nations.

·         The labour cost gap between the developed and developing world remains large and there is no sign of any immediate technological break-through which could ease the impact of this gap upon costs.

·         Exports performance became worst badly after 1998 and the sectors displays huge trade deficit a high negative trade balance on apparel trade.

·         The global spread of the UK industry is extremely limited. The UK domestic market is large but extremely competitive and dominated by a small number of large retailers.

·         After 1995 the trend in UK output and employment entered a new phase that both data have turn down together.