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Chinese imports take toll on apparel makers: area contractors' ability to turn around orders quickly helps firms.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 28-MAR-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Chinese imports take toll on apparel makers: area contractors' ability to turn around orders quickly helps firms.(Manufacturing)

Article Excerpt
Now that the jeans, T-shirts and socks are arriving from China in record numbers, local apparel makers are puzzling over how to stay in business.

"There's a lot fewer manufacturers out there for me to service," said Jan Rutkin, the president of 39-year-old Todd Rutkin Inc., a Huntington Park apparel contractor that cuts clothing patterns and has been losing big-volume contracts to overseas producers for years.

Apparel manufacturing, once a mainstay of Los Angeles County's economy, has been struggling for years, as production moves to countries with cheaper labor. The ones that remain are mostly specialized contractors delivering quick turnarounds on high-fashion apparel or providers of ancillary functions, such as cutting and sewing.

Local contractors say they won't realize the full impact of the Jan. 1 end of quotas for a few more months, but so...

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