28790: Demare (reply) Re: 28457: (news) Chamberlain: Haiti's garment industry seeks relief (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: mimi demare <mimi_demare@yahoo.ca>

i was interested to see what this was about, having heard about a once active 
indigenous "garment industry" that supplied the needs of haitian people 
(including shoes)--which industry has been all but destroyed by the dumping of 
used clothes from the united states (and elsewhere?).  i thought, ah! 
something about that the remainder of that industry.  disappointing to realize 
that what is being referred to (all right--forgive my innocence here) is making 
cheap t-shirts for the u.s. market.

  is there any activity in a more homegrown clothing industry, that anyone 
knows of?