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The Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) yesterday demanded the central bank allow them to repay stimulus loans in 42 months instead of initially fixed 18 months as the severe impacts of Covid-19 persist.

Industry insiders think the loss of Ethiopia’s duty-free benefit will bring in more orders for Bangladeshi apparel makers

Despite Bangladesh's securing a good number of apparel work orders from the European Union and the United States, it was outnumbered by neighbouring India and Pakistan in terms of export growth in the two major markets in January-July this year.

  Staff Correspondent,  bdnews24.com Published: 11 Apr 2021 09:01 PM BdST Updated: 11 Apr 2021 09:01 PM BdST Workers wash hands with water and soap before entering a garment factory in Dhakas Tejgaon on Monday, Apr 5, 2021 as a weeklong lockdown began to contain a surge in coronavirus cases. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi Workers enter a garment factory in Dhakas Tejgaon by maintaining physical distancing on Monday, Apr 5, 2021 as a weeklong lockdown began to contain a surge in coronavirus cases...

  Faysal Atik, Staff Correspondent,  bdnews24.com Published: 07 Mar 2021 02:48 AM BdST Updated: 07 Mar 2021 02:48 AM BdST Split in two old camps, the readymade garment exporters’ group BGMEA is gearing up for the polls to elect their new leaders. "); } Candidates of the two panels -- Sammilita Parishad and Forum – have begun campaigning after the voter list was finalised on Mar 4. The two panels are also preparing to introduce their candidates in events. A total of 70 candidates from th...

Country Director, ILO, Bangladesh The ILO Convention Eliminating Violence and Harassment in the World of Work (C190) and its accompanying Recommendation (R206) went through a long process and it culminated in the adoption of the convention in the ILO Centenary Conference in 2019. The Bangladesh government voted in favour of the adoption of the Convention C190 and Recommendation R206 and we are optimistic about the ratification of C190 by the government of Bangladesh. Workers and Employers organ...

Disrupted Global Supply Chain Amid Corona Woven exports fall, knitwear sector rebounds 8th January, 2021 09:40:26 The woven sector, which makes up more than 50 per cent of RMG exports, has continued to remain in the negative trajectory due to a fall in export orders from major markets like US and EU amid the corona pandemic. Though the knitwear sector has been maintaining its strength in the first half of the current fiscal, the woven sector continues to stay weak. The RMG sector, which contrib...

Flashback in Outgoing 2020: Corona hits hard RMG sector 31st December, 2020 09:38:45 The ready-made garment (RMG) sector, the lifeline of the country’s exports, has faced its toughest year in 2020 as the entire apparel supply chain collapsed due to the economic fallout caused by coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic that erupted at the beginning of the outgoing year pushed the RMG sector into a great uncertainty with widespread order cancellation, fall in export prices, factory closure, lay offs...