Chemicals from dyeing are spread worldwide by exporting clothes with residues on them.
Since founding Luma in 1998, Mr. Zhang said, he has exported clothes to 30 countries, including China, Mexico, Venezuela, Jordan and Lebanon.
But we [she and Fitz] ended up in Brazil, exporting clothes from there, working with other labels like Cacharel.
By the time Benetton came to Syria to scout for a franchisee in the mid-1990s, Mr Samha owned a factory exporting clothes to Europe.
And a Chicago company that Mr. Shilin had founded to export clothes to Russia was crippled by a broad Internal Revenue Service investigation of Russian money laundering.
His eventual goal, and Mr. Petukhov's, is to move from a supplier of basic cloth to a producer of more profitable dyed and refined fabrics, and eventually to make and export clothes.
After running a travel agency and other small businesses in the city for eight years, he returned to Pakistan in the early 1980's, raised a family and made a small fortune exporting clothes to Kmart and other American stores with an American partner.
As well as lucrative IT services, companies here export clothes, pharmaceuticals and engineering goods to the US - one of the largest export market for India.
One of Sheico's plants operate near the Vietnamese border near the regional trade hub of Ho Chi Minh City, making it ideal for importing supplies and exporting clothes, the company says, The second factory is near the Phnom Penh international airport.
It was explained that they were exporting clothes to Russia but because of the Olympics had to relocate so as to avoid detection and interference.
