BANGLADESH SEEKS EU LEGISLATORS’ HELP TO BUCK EUROPEAN BRANDS’ RMG ORDER CANCELATION
May 2nd, 2020
THE BANGLADESH government has taken the unusual step of asking the European Parliament to use its influence to persuade European clothing brands to be more sensitive about the impact of cancelling orders with Bangladesh-based suppliers during the Covid-19 crisis.
In a formal letter to Bernd Lange, chair of the European Parliament’s international trade committee, Bangladesh’s commerce secretary Dr Jafar Uddin complained of the cancellation of billions of dollars of textiles and clothing orders by European high-street retailers and asked lawmaker to help ...
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