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Every day, CPD RMG Study team reveals what’s on our economic and apparel radar and curates a selection of the best reports, opinion, and analysis you may have missed   India brings no cheer to garment exporters Garment exports to ...

Published in the Daily Star on 24, July 2017 Garment exports to India declined in fiscal 2016-17 thanks to 12.5 percent countervailing duty by the neighbour, which negates the benefit of duty-free access, and the emergence of its own apparel ...

Every day, CPD RMG Study team reveals what’s on our economic and apparel radar and curates a selection of the best reports, opinion, and analysis you may have missed   RMG owners compensate 984 terminated workers Six readymade garment factory ...

Published on the Prothom Alo on 22, July 2017 Six readymade garment factory owners have compensated some 984 terminated workers and withdrawn criminal cases filed against them following negotiations and conditions set by buyers, according to IndustriALL, a global union. ...

Every day, CPD RMG Study team reveals what’s on our economic and apparel radar and curates a selection of the best reports, opinion, and analysis you may have missed Seven local firms get approval for overseas investment Bangladesh Bank has ...

Published in the Dhaka Tribune on 19, July  2017 Bangladesh Bank has approved the proposals of seven local firms to bring their capital aboard for investment. Central bank’s Executive Director ANM Abul Kashem made the disclosure while speaking at a ...

Every day, CPD RMG Study team reveals what’s on our economic and apparel radar and curates a selection of the best reports, opinion, and analysis you may have missed Local apparel-makers lift objection to FDI in RMG outside EPZs The ...

Published in the Financial Express on 18, July 2017 Syful Islam The country’s apparel-makers have finally withdrawn their objection to foreign direct investment (FDI) in readymade garment (RMG) industry outside the export processing zones (EPZs), officials said. Now the government ...

Every day, CPD RMG Study team reveals what’s on our economic and apparel radar and curates a selection of the best reports, opinion, and analysis you may have missed Body to finalise draft labour law suiting int’l prescription The government ...

Published in the Financial Express on 17 July 2017 The government formed a high-level committee to finalise the draft amendments to labour-and EPZ laws accommodating all labour-rights issues raised by western stakeholders, failing which Bangladesh’s European GSP may also be ...