Clothing Manufacturers Are Finding It Difficult To Break Free From China’s Supply Chain

From Adidas AG to Nike Inc, garment and footwear manufacturers have been relocating their supply chains away from China

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Some are even uprooting themselves and returning to the mainland.

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I can’t think of another place that can do the quality, the quantity and the price as well as China.”

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Bloomberg News talked with apparel manufacturers and factory owners who shared Magill’s thoughts.

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Lin Feng, in his fifties, is a businessman who owns garment companies in and around Guangzhou, China’s southernmost metropolis.

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As Covid closed borders in 2020, he began a new manufacturing line for ladies’ gowns in Hanoi to “test the waters,”

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