| Summary: | The article provides a succinct evolution of the global textile, clothing, leather and footwear industry, highlighting the major trends during 2000-2015. In the first part, the authors present the evolution of products world trade for global textile, clothing, leather and footwear industry, emphasizing the valences of new technologies in developing the major tendencies. Next, the article shows the influence of regulation on the world light industry and on the structural changes of the major actors in the field, emphasizing the impact of structural changes in the global economy. Further benchmarks of world global textile, clothing, leather and footwear industry in the global context are developed. Finally, the article offers guidelines on the forecast of the global textile, clothing, leather and footwear industry. The article is based primarily on exploratory research and statistical calculation.
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