ASEAN: VERTICAL INTEGRATION AND STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP NEED TO GROW
January 1st, 2013
THE CREATION of a harmonised customs system within the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) by 2015 should be better exploited by its regional clothing and textile industry through better vertical integration, a conference was told this week.ASEAN’s projected ‘Single Window’ common market system should speed flows of capital, labour and goods within the ASEAN bloc. But clothing and textile industry players speaking at the ‘Prime Source Forum – Focus on ASEAN’, in Jakarta, Indonesia, on January 30, said ASEAN manufacturers ...
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