News / LSPs could become the new 'heroes' of a changing apparel industry

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The sourcing shake-up sparked by the US-China trade war means logistics service providers could become the “heroes” of the apparel industry.

According to Jane Singer, managing director of apparel intelligence firm Inside Fashion, the major impact on China from the US tariffs has not been a shift in production, but the growing risk of worldwide political instability and the need to diversify supply chains.

“We can clearly see the movement out of China has not been just because of the recent tariffs,” ...