Zoe Chase
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252 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 19 Aug
Zoe Chase’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, I think it's a little bit more than a little bit.
Lot of
Chowdry set up a meeting with the head of the factory, the CEO of the company Dai Woo.
The meeting was scheduled for forty five minutes.
It went over.
Chowdhury emerged in the dead of night with a deal.
Korea would help set up the first export-oriented garment factory in Bangladesh.
Chowdry had help convincing the Daiwoo chairman to invest in Bangladesh, help from an unlikely source.
Richard Nixon.
And so what we're fighting for is for the protection of our textiles and our textile markets.
But let's This is President Nixon talking in Asheville, North Carolina in nineteen seventy, promising to do something about the cheap clothes and textiles that were flooding in from places like Korea and threatening jobs in textile towns like Asheville.
You know, textiles are produced all over the United States.
America.
And we have the problem of imports, imports from abroad.
So Nixon helped create this massive piece of trade policy in 1974, the multi-fiber arrangement.
Sounds boring, but you could say it reshaped the entire global economy.
It set these firm limits for how much clothing and textiles each country could sell to the United States.
And around the time that Mr.
Chowdhury had made his trip to the Daiwoo clothing factory, Korea had hit its limit, which gave the Koreans an incentive to open up a factory in another country, say Bangladesh, get made in Bangladesh labels, put on their Korean-made shirts, and sell them to the West.
So the deal Chowdry and the Daiwoo CEO worked out in the late hours of their meeting was for Chowdhury to come back to Korea with a
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