The chart below shows the average price per kilo of clothing imported into the European Union from seven major countries of origin in 1997 and 2003. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates the average price per kilometre exported into the European market garments in 1993 and 2003.

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, there were 6 main cloth exporters, and the vast majority were the Asian countries. To start with, there are only two countries which have decreased their prices in 2003. The first one was Argentina, with an average of about 27 pounds in 1993 and just above 25 of the same currency in 2003. Japan has

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reduced its clothing cost by a few pound sterlings to some 13 in 2003. Except for Argentina, Brazil is the second Latin American exporter,

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, the price of garments has remained the same, at about 23 pounds on average, throughout the observing period.

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, 3 out of 4 Asian states have increased the average value of exported garments.

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, Bangladesh's prices have grown twice more throughout 10 years, reaching almost 7

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of British currency in 2003. China and India have raised the clothing value not at the same speed, but the add-ups were

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substantial, from 10 pounds on average to just above 15 in the first country and from about 7 units of the same currency to almost 13 in the latest. In conclusion, I want to emphasize the trend for clothing price growth in less developed Asian countries with low primary values.

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, Latin America did not act the same, as cloth costs have either decreased or plateaued.