The United States imposed trade sanctions against the military regime in Myanmar in July 2003. The import ban damaged the garment industry in particular. This industry exported nearly half of its products to the United States, and more than eighty percent of United States imports from Myanmar had been clothes. The garment industry was probably the main target of the sanctions. Nevertheless, the impact on the garment industry and its workers has not been accurately evaluated or closely examined. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of the sanctions and to further understand the present situation. This is done using several sources of information, including the author's field and questionnaire surveys. This paper also describes the process of selection and polarization underway in the garment industry, an industry that now has more severe competition fueled by the sanctions. Through such a process, the impact was inflicted disproportionately on small and medium-sized domestic firms and their workers.
権利
Copyrights 日本貿易振興機構（ジェトロ）アジア経済研究所 / Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO) http://www.ide.go.jp
雑誌名
IDE Discussion Paper
雑誌名(英)
IDE Discussion Paper
巻
42
発行年
2005-12-01
出版者
Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO)
著者版フラグ
publisher
日本十進分類法
589.2
JEL分類
JEL:F19 - Other
JEL:L60 - General
JEL:O14 - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
地域/国名
ミャンマー
アメリカ合衆国
キーワード(LSH)
Myanmar (Burma)
United States
Sanction
Garment industry
Apparel industry
Economic sanctions
ミャンマー
アメリカ合衆国
アパレル産業
経済制裁
The Impact of United States Sanctions on the Myanmar Garment Industry
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