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Textile Manufacturers Move From Pakistan To Bangladesh

2011/8/31 9:04:00 36

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Tauseef Salamat, a factory owner in Pakistan, said with a bitter smile that he received a text message telling him to shut down the plant's natural gas supply for three days in accordance with the government's rationing scarce energy plan or face a fine.

For once prosperous Pakistan

Textile industry

For now, it is a very difficult time.

The long term energy crisis, coupled with the plagued countries' armed and political violence, has led to the emergence of safety and safety problems in the country, and the textile industry has suffered huge losses.

Now, there is a new threat: textile manufacturers are moving to Bangladesh.

"Bangladesh also has energy problems, but unlike us, they are managing the energy crisis and are well managed," said Salamat, head of Tauseef, which has 3000 employees in Pakistan.

The energy crisis has increased the cost of doing business in Pakistan.

In fact, Salamat has voted with his feet. His company now has more than 800 workers working in a place once known as the east wing of Pakistan about 2000 kilometers away.

Bangladesh to Pakistan

textile industry

With strong attraction, it leads to Pakistan.

Textile enterprises

Move to Dhaka.

After a bloody civil war and India intervention, Bangladesh broke up from the western part of Pakistan and declared its independence in 1971.

Its advantages are obvious: it not only shares a common culture and history with Pakistan, but also has a more friendly investment policy for investors, cheap skilled labor, and the key is tariff free access to 37 countries, including the European Union, Canada and Australia.

The movement of textile enterprises from Pakistan to Bangladesh is also evidence of the new trend of globalization of labor and capital flows in the world: first, the shift from the west to the rapid economic development of the economy.

Frederick Newman, chief economist of Hongkong HSBC Asia (Frederic Neumann), said: "the third wave of globalization has entered the frontier market.

"As some emerging markets climb up the value-added ladder, the frontier market is increasingly finding a competitive advantage."

Pakistan's textile industry accounts for 37% of manufacturing workers, accounting for more than 50% of manufacturing exports, and exports of 2010/11 are close to 25 billion US dollars (15 billion 300 million pounds) in the fiscal year.

In 2010/11, textile exports grew by 35% over the same period last year, reaching US $13 billion 800 million.

But the main reason is that cotton prices are high and cotton prices are expected to fall.

In fact, exports dropped by about 15% in July, the first month of the 2011/12 fiscal year.