,
while commodity product production was
awash in inventories. These under-
capitalized firms and their supply chain
structures were ill-equipped to meet the
unsubsidized world of expensive energy and
environmental costs and react to the
conditions of ever-decreasing product life
cycles for ever- increasing product mixes.
Here, the U.S. Government assumed that the
domestic economy had reached a point in its
development that further subsidization of the
U.S. Textile and Apparel Industry in its
present form was no longer of prime
national interest