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Originally posted in The Business Standard on 22 March 2022 Ready-made garments (RMG) workers have blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway and set fire to a bus after a worker was injured in a road accident in Chaydana area of Gazipur. The ...

Originally posted in Textile Today on 14 March 2022 Bangladesh’s readymade garment (RMG) value addition has been inconsistent in recent years. Apparel exporters have mainly attributed the COVID-19 pandemic-induced raw materials high prices and lack of long-term policy supports for ...

Originally posted in The Daily Star on 13 March 2022 The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) to reinstate GSP status in the American ...

Originally posted in Textile Today  on 13 March 2022 Bangladesh’s readymade garment (RMG) exports to the USA upheld an impressive growth – both in terms of value and volume – in January 2022. In terms of export growth, the country ...

Originally posted in The Financial Express on 7 March 2022 Bangladesh’s apparel industry rejoices at rejuvenation with old factories expanding and new ones sprouting amid a glut of orders from buyers, though global tensions pose downside risks, sources say. Encouraged ...

Originally posted in The Daily Financial Express on 05 March 2022 The share of woven garments in Bangladesh’s export earnings wanes mainly as lax backwards-linkage industry fails to support the apparel subsector, insiders say. Backwards-linkage industry is also “important to ...

Originally posted in The Daily Financial Express on 03 March 2022 The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has launched its online-based membership management system to make registration procedures easy, faster and more convenient for factories. The online-based system ...

Originally published in Prothom Alo on 2 March 2022 পণ্য রপ্তানিতে ধারাবাহিকতা ধরে রেখেছে বাংলাদেশ। তাতে ২০২১-২২ অর্থবছরের প্রথম আট মাসে (জুলাই-ফেব্রুয়ারি) ৩ হাজার ৩৮৪ কোটি ডলারের পণ্য রপ্তানি করেছেন দেশের উদ্যোক্তারা। এই আয় ২০২০-২১ অর্থবছরের একই সময়ের তুলনায় ৩০ ...

Originally posted in The Daily Financial Express on 01 March 2022 The country’s garment accessories makers urged the government to legalise sub-contracting for them in a bid to grab increased work orders as well as to help small- and medium-scale ...

Originally posted in the Prothom Alo on 13 February 2022 রপ্তানিমুখী ৩ হাজার ৬৩০টি তৈরি পোশাক কারখানার তথ্য-উপাত্ত ম্যাপড ইন বাংলাদেশের (এমআইবি) ডিজিটাল ম্যাপ বা মানচিত্রের আওতায় এসেছে। এসব কারখানায় কাজ করেন ২৭ লাখ ৫১ হাজার ৭৭৯ শ্রমিক। গত জানুয়ারি ...