New Global Value Chain Coalition takes message to Capitol Hill, USTR

Retail associations and major U.S. companies are banding together to “educate” policymakers on the economic importance of global value chains and the U.S. jobs they create, with meetings planned on Capitol Hill, at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Commerce Department. The Global Value Chain Coalition, launched on Oct. 20, is also touting research it commissioned from Moongate Associates showing that U.S. “value-added” in the overall retail and apparel supply chain amounts, on average, to at least...