Download or read book Shifting Patterns of Comparative Advantage: Manfactured Exports of Developing Countries written by Alexander J. Yeats and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labor -intensive goods are the developing countries' strongest export items -- and the United States is the chief import market for these goods. What's more, the industrial countries can expect increasing competition in the 1990s in clothing, footwear, leather products, wood manufactures, and some primary metal manufactures.