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Manufacturing in Southern Asia

  • Sri Lanka’s clothing industry looks to regain competitiveness

    SRI LANKA, 2015/12/27 With an eye on the target of reaching $8.5bn worth of clothing exports per annum by 2020, Sri Lanka’s apparel manufacturers are backing a national bid to regain preferential trade concessions from the EU. Sri Lanka has carved a niche as an international centre for clothing manufacturing despite tough regional competition, with the high-price segment performing particularly well. However, a decision in 2010 by the European Commission to temporarily revoke the low or non-existent tariffs awarded to the country under the Generalised System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) scheme has inhibited additional robust sector increase in the intervening years. Sri Lanka lost its GSP+ concessions following an investigation into alleged human rights abuses at the end of the country’s civil war, though it retains access to the standard GSP scheme, which grants some, albeit fewer, preferential import tariffs.

  • Rwanda: India Imparts Skills to Local Manufacturers

    INDIA, 2015/01/30 Rwandans will be able to acquire various manufacturing skills from the India-Africa Vocational Training and Incubation Centre launched yesterday in Nyarutarama, Gasabo District, Kigali. The centre will provide training to bridge the skills gaps and reduce unemployment. It consists of eleven fields: bakery, tomato ketchup and fruit juice making, edible oil extraction, packaging, soya milk extraction. Others are automatic wire nail manufacturing, paper napkin and toilet roll manufacturing, knitting, stitching and embroidery, cell phone repair, potato chips manufacturing, popcorn making, ice cream cone making, fashion design, and crockery, part others.

  • Bangladesh’s ready-made garment (RMG) secto

    BANGLADESH, 2012/12/12 If Bangladesh’s ready-made garment (RMG) sector ever had a cheap connotation tied to it, it is well on its way out, thanks to the efforts of high-quality manufacturers such as Mohammadi Group (MG). “It’s time for Bangladesh to re-brand itself as a producer of higher price added items,” says the group’s Chairman, Annisul Huq, adding that the entrepreneurs of the RMG sector have risen above the challenges of natural disasters and labor issues to sustain increase in the sector. “Nothing deters our spirit. The resilience comes from our need to survive and compete in today’s world with excellence,” he says.
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