Fashioning The Canadian Fashion Industry

Before I started this project I had no clue how the fashion industry was regulated. I actually thought there could not be more regulations than import and export laws, upon further research I found myself astonished that I ever believed that. This is just a brief list of some of the policies I found. This list outlines not only the regulations but the regulators as well.

World Trade Organizations (WTO)
• Textiles Monitoring Body (TMB)
• Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC)
• Multi-fibre Arrangement (MFA)
Canadian Organizations
• Canadian Trade Commissioner Service
• The Canadian Apparel and Textile Industries Program (CCRA)
• Foreign Embassies and Trade Offices Canada
• Export Development Canada
• International Trade Canada
• Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT)
• Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA)
• Canadian Border Services
• Canadian Apparel and Textiles Industries Program (CATIP)
• Competition Bureau
• Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network
• Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC)
• International Trademark Association (INTA)
American Organizations
• U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Regulations and Policies
• Regional/ Bilateral Trade Agreements
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
• Free Trade Agreement with:
o Chile
o Israel
o Costa Rica
• Textile Tariffs
• Designer Remission Order
• Canada’s Least Developed Country Tariff (LDCT)
• General Preferential Tariff (GPT)
• Copyright Act
• Trademarks Act
• Industrial Design Act
• Textile and Labelling Act

-Courtney Wright