Businesses wanted to keep insight into their suppliers and manufacturers as opaque as possible. If no one knew where supplies were coming from, no one could build identical apparel. And this ...

In recent years, there have also been changes in the dynamics of the clothing manufacturing industry, with many companies choosing to outsource production to cheaper locations across the world.

Expanded tariffs could protect some manufacturers from foreign competition, but economists warn that they would also drive up ...

A Portland-based zero-waste soft goods design and manufacturing company is expanding into wool and cotton milling.