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Govt fails to make safety inspections reports public, says HRW

The government and retailers have largely failed to make public the findings of factory safety inspections ordered after the April 2013 Rana Plaza catastrophe that killed and injured several thousand workers, said Human Rights Watch. Reports should be published in Bangla as well as English so that they are accessible to workers. More than 1,100 workers died after they were persuaded, and in some caseRMG Rana Plazas forced, by their employers to return to Rana Plaza a day after they evacuated because large cracks appeared in the building's walls. As a result of the tragedy, the Bangladesh government and western ret...

Govt to support apparel accessories makers

The Government will provide policy support to garment accessories and packaging manufacturers in the country, in order to help the sub-sector grow parallel to the apparel industry, said Minister of State for Finance MA Mannan, during the launch of the ‘Integrated Support to Poverty and Inequality Reduction through Enterprise Development’ (INSPIRED) project that aims to develop small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country. Bangladesh-rmg-workerMr. Mannan explained that the garment accessories and packaging manufa...

Garment exports grow 15.38pc in July-April

The exports of readymade garments from Bangladesh increased by 15.38 percent to US$ 19.97 billion during the first ten months of the ongoing fiscal year 2013-14, as against exports of $17.307 billion made during the corresponding period of the previous fiscal, as per the latest data released by the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB). Segment-wise, woven apparel exports grew by 13.91 percent year-on-year to $10.166 billion during July-April 2013-14 period, whereas knitwear exports soared by 16.96 percent to $9.803 billion. Knitwear and woven garments together accounted for 81 percent of total $24.654 billion exports made by the South Asian nation during the ten-month period beginning July 1, 2014.

Govt must help apparel firms open shops in UK 

The Government should allow garment exporters to invest 5 to 10 percent of their export value for opening showrooms and outlets in the UK, which has a huge market for Bangladeshi clothing brands, said chairman of the newly formed trade body UK Bangladesh Catalysts of Commerce and Industry Ltd (UKBCCI) Iqbal Ahmed. Mr. Ahmed said this during a recent meeting of a 10-member delegation of UKBCCI with Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) president Kazi Akram Uddin Ahmed at the FBCCI office in Dhaka, reports the Daily Star. Workers on the floor of a garm... </div><!-- .entry-content --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <div class=

US retailers’ donation to Bangladesh fund ‘paltry’

Walmart has been criticised for offering a paltry amount to victims of the RanaPlaza factory collapse in Bangladesh after joining other US-owned retailers including Asda, Gap and The Children’s Place to donate $2.2m (£1.32m) to a compensation fund. Of 28 retailers linked to the building in Dhaka, where more than 1,100 people died and at least a further 1,000 were injured nearly a year ago, just 16 have been confirmed as donors to a formal compensation fund co-ordinated by the UN agency the International Labour Organisation (ILO). So far there is just $7m in the pot, well short of its $40m target.

Tax cut on RMG exports for 15 months

The National Board of Revenue is set to issue a statutory regulatory order reducing tax at source on export of apparel items to 0.30 per cent from the existing 0.80 per cent for 15 months, officials of the NBR said. rmgThey said that readymade garment exporters would get the benefit for maximum 15 months as the revenue board decided to offer the tax waiver up to June, 2015, reports the New Age. ‘After getting approval from the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, last week, the revenue board on Sunday sent a draft of...
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