Article: US textile, apparel firms hearing chant: build in Jamaica.

US Textile, Apparel Firms Hearing Chant: Build in Jamaica NEW YORK -- A popular television commercial, featuring palm trees, turquoise water and white, sandy beaches, coos, "Come back to Jamaica." But if Peter King and his associates at the Jamaican National Export Corp. have their way, it's not just transient tourists who will answer that call.

King, who is chief executive officer of the JNEI and chairman of the Jamaica Textile Council, spends a good portion of his time in the U.S. urging Americans to set up textile and apparel operations under Item 807 and promote their fabric lines to Far Eastern firms operating in their Caribbean nation.

Yet, the ...

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