How Trump’s trade war is supercharging the fast fashion industry

By Mona Mashhadi Rajabi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
Lisa Lake, Director, Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Fashion + Textiles, University of Technology Sydney
Martina Linnenluecke, Professor of Environmental Finance at UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
Yun Shen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney

High US tariffs on Chinese-made goods didn’t halt the fast fashion industry. They just rerouted it, and the Australian market has been flooded.

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