Did you get any articles of clothing for Christmas? It’s likely you did, along with many millions of other gift recipients. Unless it was very high-end (think Italian or French), it was almost certainly made in Asia…and more specifically, in China. China’s huge clothing export business is bigger than the other fifteen billion-dollar-or-more Asian exporters – combined! The graphic below, from howmuch.net based on World Trade Organization data, shows just how mind-bogglingly large the Chinese clothing export business has become.
