World trade evolutions confirm that European companies managed to maintain their overall position by changing competitiveness paradigm and by favouring a competitiveness based on products with high added-value and non-price competitiveness content.

There is clearly a correlation that can be made between changes in consumption and changes in imports. Retailers are increasingly relying upon just-in-time purchasing, and as far as they can, keeping the risks related to long-term purchasing down to a minimum. In effect, nearly one fourth of all...

Over the year 2012 as a whole, clothing imports to five European countries (France, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany,) from the major Mediterranean Basin countries (Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey,) declined by an average of 3 % in value. While this decline is a reflection of the...