Competition, competitiveness factors and liberalization of international trade: the consequences of the new global context on the competitiveness of the Tunisian clothing sector.

Summary We propose in this thesis to study the change which knew the world context of exchange of products Textile-Clothing (following the entry of China (being the first world producer of TH) in the WTO and the liberalization of the exchanges on the world market), as well as the capacity of Tunisian price competitiveness compared to its competitors and the important role which play the factors of structural competitiveness in the determination of the competitive capacity of the sector TH of the various exporting countries in particular Tunisia. The thesis is divided into two main parts. The first part concentrates on the study of the history and the evolution of the sector TH in addition to its current context of production and exchange. The second part focuses more on the comparative quantitative analysis of competitiveness and its determinants. The objective of this work is to study the competitiveness of the Tunisian TH sector in an increasingly hostile context. Indeed, from this thesis, we tried to mount a comparative grid based on the different theories of world trade and the different factors of competitiveness in order to highlight the achievements and the factors of action likely to improve the competitiveness of the sector on the world market.