Implicaciones para el subsector textil-confección del tratado de libre comercio con Estados Unidos

Abstract

The central objective of the document was to analyze the positive and negative effects that the commercialization of products of the textile sector with the United States brings, to carry out this, the periods in which there was less and greater growth in different variables were identified and characterized , and some factors of greater incidence were found, in order to determine how the textile sector is (gross production, added value, intermediate consumption and employed personnel) in a period of 4 years, in the same way an analysis was carried out (balance commercial), calculating growth rates of exports and imports between Colombia and the United States, also, the value creation of a specific company was identified, in this case of Protela. It was found that for 2017 textile production has decreased considerably, the growth rates of exports and imports were lower, on average they were in 2017. From the value chain of the Protela company, it is possible to show that it creates value from different mechanisms such as differentiator in marketing, innovation in production processes.