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• France has been a first-mover with French Decree 2022-748 AGEC, which stipulates that brands selling in France as of January 2023 must include point-of-sale labelling with detailed and verified information about reparability, recyclability, sustainability, traceability and more.
•  European governments are seeking to legislate the end of fast fashion by 2030 with eco-design rules that would restrict the use of non-recyclable synthetic materials, promote the use of recycled fibers and fabrics, and ensure longer durability of clothes.
• In the 1780s Europeans imported raw cotton from the West Indies, Brazil, the Ottoman Empire, and India. The Europeans were familiar with America’s use of slave labor to grow tobacco, rice, indigo, and sugar, but did not know that American land could grow cotton.
• Cotton became cheaper to produce expanding the industry and therefore there was a need for more laborers. The cotton crop resulted in a massive expansion in the slave trade route
• Additionally, more than half of all the United States’ exports between 1815 and 1860 consisted of raw cotton.