El Salvador

In El Salvador, the secondhand clothing market has grown into a primary source of affordable apparel for millions of households navigating inflation, informal employment, and limited purchasing power. A just-released joint study by Garson & Shaw and Full Cycle Resource Consulting maps how US-collected surplus clothing moves through a commercially disciplined supply chain to reach Salvadoran consumers at prices calibrated to local demand.

The lesson of the current US tariffs crisis roiling the trade world is this: you cannot keep relying on one country as your export destination. From now on it has to be ‘US Plus One’.