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One side of the story The other side of the story Opportunities and strategies for SEE countries in the garments sector
Going East/1
It is since the first half of the 1990s that the European manufacturing industry has started to exploit the opportunities offered by the opening of the former socialist Centre-east European countries and progressively internationalised growing parts of its production. Italy has been one of the most active countries in this process both because of its geographical proximity and because it was, and still is, one of the European Unions (EU) main producers of low-technology products, a position conquered in the early 1980s, when the other European main industrialised countries progressively moved to more sophisticated, high-tech and capital intensive sectors.
Going East/2
Since the second half of the 90s Italys manufacturing firms have progressively substituted in-house production or supply relationships with local firms with supplies from SEE, particularly Romanian, firms developing a buyer-driven value chain. To this aim, Italian manufacturing firms directly acquire raw or processed materials and then export them to Romania or other SEE countries, importing then back the semi-finished or finished products. To give and indication of the phenomenon we consider here Veneto, one of Italys most active regions in this process, reporting imports and exports from and towards Romania in the traditional Made in Italy sectors: textile and clothing (CPATECO code db), leather and leather products (dc), wood and wood products (dd), furniture and other manufactured products (dn).
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1.200.000.000
1.000.000.000
800.000.000
600.000.000
400.000.000
200.000.000
0 1994 Source : Istat Exports Imports 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
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DK- achiner
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Source: Istat
Employees Total export Total export minus omania
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100.000
80.000
60.000
40.000
20.000
extiles Clothing eather and leather products 1991 1996 2001 Machinery holesale (except motor vehicles)
Source: Istat
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Source: Istat
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Printing 2004
hole product
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Alessandro Spaventa Head of the Research Unit - Leonardo Business Consulting a.spaventa@leonardobc.com Tel. +39 06 68891578 fax +39 06 68891146 Via del Banco di S. Spirito 3, 00186 Rome Italy
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