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#PRC: Apparel giants departing China for Vietnam, India, Bangladesh.Charles Ortel of the On the Money with Charles Ortel podcast @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#PRC: Apparel giants departing China for Vietnam, India, Bangladesh.Charles Ortel of the On the Money with Charles Ortel podcast @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill



https://amp.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3229636/china-audits-reveal-consumption-vouchers-did-not-work-and-were-misused-cash-handouts-remain-elusive
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-state-council-issues-measures-expand-consumption-2023-07-31/



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0:00.0

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0:18.8

This is CBS, I'm the world. I'm John Batcher with Gordon Chang, my friend and

0:29.5

colleague and we're looking at reshoring or offshoring or friend-shoring. The

0:36.2

factory floors from China given the risk of the confrontation with the people's

0:41.2

Republic of China and given the abuse of the Chinese people by the Masters in

0:46.9

Beijing. The electronic story, the Per River Valley, long told is China is a good

0:55.4

place to go for high tech, especially for what you need, car manufacturers,

1:01.1

electronic manufacturers. But now I learned from Bloomberg a surprising fact

1:05.6

about what our guest Charles Ortelle on the money with Charles Ortelle has

1:11.6

taught me to call the Rags trade, sometimes known as the apparel industry.

1:15.5

Bloomberg reporting, a record number of US fashion companies no longer list

1:21.2

China as their top supplier. 61% of apparel CEOs have stopped using China as their

1:28.7

primary supplier up from 30%. And the chart accompanying this says over the next

1:33.6

two years, these apparel companies sourcing value or volume expected

1:39.1

decrease their business in China by 78% and increase it in Vietnam, Bangladesh and

1:45.3

India. Charles, are you surprised by this because the legend has always been

1:49.7

China offers cheap, fast, effective supply chain, but no longer to all the

1:55.6

major apparel companies. Good evening to Charles.

1:58.3

Good evening, and I go and I it doesn't surprise me at all. I think in the

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