The representative of the Chinese government and Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng led the trade and economic delegation of the Chinese government to visit Bangladesh on August 25-26. During the visit, Gao met with the Premier of Bangladesh ...
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Mercia Bernicat has that Washington is committed to helping Bangladesh's readymade garment (RMG) sector, according to media reports in that country. Bernicat's comments came during a courtesy call on Prime ...
Tags: readymade garment, garment
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the foreign buyers to raise the price of garment products, saying that this money would be spent for further welfare of the country's four million readymade garment (RMG) workers, the ...
Tags: aaparel and clothing, garment products, readymade garment export
Bangladeshi exporters, including apparel makers, will now have to pay 0.6 per cent tax at source on their income from export from the upcoming financial year, as the government slashed the rate from the proposed 1 per cent, according to ...
Tags: Bangla Apparel, Apparel
Japan has agreed in principle to further relax rules of origin norms for importing knitwear from Bangladesh, and modalities for the same are being worked out, foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque told reporters after his meeting with the ...
Tags: Knitwear, knitwear products
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has requested buyers to raise the prices of readymade garments (RMG) so that RMG workers could lead a more comfortable life. The Prime Minister said this while inaugurating the first-ever ...
Tags: readymade garments, Apparel
H.E. Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has officially opened the Center of Excellence for the Bangladesh Apparel Industries (CEBAI), during a ceremony held at the Dhaka Apparel Summit at Bangabandhu International Conference ...
The Bangladesh Ambassador to US, Mohammad Ziauddin, has sought help from the US Government for promoting the readymade garment (RMG) sector of Bangladesh, BSS news agency reported. Mr. Ziauddin, in a discussion with US Congresswoman ...
Tags: Bangladesh, US Government, Accessories
Bangladesh, the second largest readymade garment exporter, has urged Japanese entrepreneurs to increase the share of Bangladeshi garments in their total apparel import from the current 1.77 percent to at least 10 percent. Speaking at a ...
Tags: Garments, readymade garment
The Government of Uzbekistan has invited Bangladeshi entrepreneurs to invest in the textile sector in Uzbekistan. During a meeting with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka, the visiting Uzbek Minister for Foreign Economic ...
Tags: Textile, woven garments, garments
The readymade garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh has suffered a loss of US$ 20 million in the month of December 2013, due to shipment delay, cancellation of orders, extra-burden of air freight, price discounts, and losses due to vandalism, ...
Tags: RMG Sector, Apparel
BATEXPO 2013, the country's largest garments export fair, kicked off on Thursday. Prime minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the annual three-day expo, hosted by Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, at Sonargaon ...
Tags: Garments Export
India is set to start electricity exports to Bangladesh, despite its own chronic power shortages, in a project that could improve relations soured by a water supply dispute, play into upcoming elections and be a key link in an eventual ...
The North American Bangladesh Worker Safety Working Group, a collaboration of six leading U.S. and Canadian apparel and retail trade associations, sent a letter to the Prime Minster of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina Wazed regarding the serious ...
Bangladesh has resumed piped natural gas connections to households from Wednesday -- after nearly three years -- amid increasing illegal connections and repeated pleas from affected stakeholders, including the real estate industry, Energy ...
Tags: Gas Connections, Gas