Making clothes in Central America

Central America emerges as leading source for value-added products

- pros include convenient locaation, quick response capability, and duty-free status: Supplychaindive, July 2017

The demise of a free-trade agreement between the United States and several Asian countries is breathing new life into the Guatemalan apparel industry: Apparel News, June 2017

Qualifying apparel products made in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua pay no duty when imported into the United States: Qcostarica, June 2017

For the first time in its 28-year history, American Apparel is making items outside the United States - shirts in Honduras and Nicaragua: Nypost, April 2017