LEBANON TO BAN TURKISH TEXTILES
June 1st, 2018
THE LEBANESE government has moved to ban the sale of certain Turkish products, including textile imports worth USD123.3 million a year, to protect local production.
However, Lebanon’s textile manufacturing sector is small, raising questions as to why Turkish textile imports should be banned.
Lebanon’s Council of Ministers approved the request of the country’s ministry of economy and trade to ban certain Turkish products following lobbying by the Association of Lebanese Industrialists (ALI) over “unfair competition”. Since the start of the Syrian ...
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