Apparel Textile Sourcing Canada Show Introduces Miami EditionThe event May 21 to 23 will have about 300 booths for apparel, accessories, fabrics, raw materials, and home and hospitality textiles and linens.

[Collection]For all its talk of being an international city, Miami is missing a significant demographic. Asians accounted for only 1.6 percent of Miami-Dade County’s population in 2016, according to the U.S. Census, while Asian tourism is so low it doesn’t even warrant its own sliver on the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau’s pie chart. The Mainland’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cluster of Asian grocery stores is a feeble attempt at a Chinatown within the dearth of Asian culture here. Now a group of entrepreneurs, economic initiatives including the Miami-Dade Beacon Council and Florida Enterprise, and politicians from the local and state levels are collaborating to eradicate the white space in the face of President Trump’s trade war threats with China. They acknowledge the first obvious step is to introduce a direct flight to China and are developing infrastructure for the day it finally happens. The expansion of Apparel Textile Sourcing Canada’s annual trade show in Toronto to Miami from May 21 to 23 is just the tipping point, according to Jason Prescott, chief executive officer of JP Communications, which produces both events. He relocated from California to Miami for a larger role as a liaison between the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and

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