Q. So how can the independent textile producer compete?

No textile producer of woven goods has been a significant apparel manufacturer.

It later turned to a broader focus on encouraging the use of existing technology among clothing manufacturers and textile producers.

But experts say the threat to European textile producers, and especially to European jobs, is exaggerated.

The group includes some executives of Burlington, which is the nation's largest textile producer.

Dozens of Brazilian textile producers have gone bankrupt.

The Chicago industrialist has asked for antitrust clearance to buy at least 15 percent of the textile producer.

French textile producers set up workshops to make Indiennes and began a thriving business.

The nation's largest textile producer, Burlington Industries, became a takeover target yesterday.

It is clear to me that there is no long term future for European textile producers hiding behind a wall of protection.