The shelves of ready-to-wear stores may not be as stocked as usual in the spring. Distributors, who import 27% of the clothing sold in France from China according to the French Fashion Institute (IFM), fear that they will not receive the last part of their spring-summer collection in time, which must be delivered from March April. “The factories have been slowed down or stopped for four weeks. Either the goods that had to be produced were not produced, or they are blocked in ports , notes Laurent Thoumine, director at Accenture. For companies in the sector, the epidemic is already likely to impact their results . "
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The time taken to transport garments produced in China by boat is forty days, customs clearance included. The alternative that now arises for textile brands is to produce elsewhere what they are currently manufacturing in China, or to transport goods despite everything produced by
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