LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Matilde Flores haggles with customers about the smartly tailored jackets she's selling at her street stand in central La Paz on a chilly morning. "The fabric is Chinese but ...

The United States is landlocked Bolivia's No. 1 trading partner, but while it has favorable trade status for a number of exports, Washington levies tariffs of 16 to 26 percent on Bolivian textiles.

''If you've traveled anywhere in Ecuador or Bolivia or Peru, you probably remember those great textiles that you see in all the markets over there,'' says Georgina Javor, referring to ponchos and ...

Even now, the U.S. Congress is threatening to levy import duties on Bolivian textiles as punishment for Morales’ refusal to sign a free-trade agreement with the U.S.

La Paz, May 17 (EFE). — Enatex, the largest staterun textile company in Bolivia, shut down its operations and laid off 800 employees, who subsequently protested in the streets to demand that the ...

Imports of used clothing, mostly from the United States, also hurt domestic production, costing Bolivia more than 160,000 textile industry jobs between 2000 and 2008 as some 32,000 mom-and-pop ...

Imports of used clothing, mostly from the United States, also hurt domestic production, costing Bolivia more than 160,000 textile industry jobs between 2000 and 2008 as some 32,000 mom-and-pop ...

Chinese textile imports, worth $8.7 millon in 2010, nearly doubled to $17 millon last year, according to the National Institute of Statistics. From China, Bolivia buys everything from motorcycles ...

In this April 4, 2012 photo, a woman embroiders a Chola wrap in her clothing store that uses Chinese made fabric in La Paz, Bolivia. Bolivian manufacturing has been slammed by cheap foreign goods ...