INDIA’S GARMENT INDUSTRY OUTRAGED AT DUTY-FREE DECISION
September 1st, 2011
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
THE RECENT decision by India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to provide duty-free access to the Indian market for 46 different garment products from neighbouring Bangladesh, has been met with angry responses from the Indian garment industry.
"The prime minister has made a major mistake," said Kandasamy Selvaraju, secretary general at the Southern India Mills' Association, in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu: "It is a disaster - our industry will now be ruined".
Selvaraju pointed out that the garment industry in India was already ...
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