Apparel Sourcing Show will be held in Canada from August 22 to 24, 2016. The show will allow Canada to have better trade platform for the apparel industry and find better ways to source its products. Canada’s retailers will be able to connect with major apparel and textile manufacturers from around the world. Many countries will be represented, including, of course, China, as well as Bangladesh, Mexico, the United States, India, Vietnam, Taiwan, Indonesia, Mauritius, Guatemala, Colombia, Jordan, Honduras, Myanmar, Burma, and Peru.

The expo will feature international textile producers, and offer a series of seminars on trade and textiles, from the Trans-Pacific Partnership to how to choose the best overseas producers to work with. Established over 150 years ago, in small, urban communities that offered a stable labor supply and rivers ideally suited for water-generated power and dyeing or finishing processes, the Canadian textile industry started with the manufacture of yarns and fabrics from natural fibers.

The industry is heavily capital-intensive, uses natural, artificial and manmade fibers and filaments, and supplies a wide range of value-added products to over 150 consumer, household and industrial customers in Canada and worldwide. Canada imports nine times more per capita in textiles compared to the US and three times as much as the EU.