MOROCCO BEGINS PRODUCTION OF TEST-ORDERS FOR FASHION CLIENTS AHEAD OF RELAXATION OF COVID-19 CONFINEMENT.

Morocco’s clothing manufacturing sector has pivoted to making medical supplies to cope with the flood of cancelled orders from hard hit European customers that marked the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic – developing textile backward linkages that could strengthen the industry for the future. Fatima-Zohra Alaoui, director general of Moroccan textile and garment manufacturing association AMITH (Association Marocaine des Industries de Textiles et l'Habillement) said: “During the week of 9th March when Spain went into lockdown we started to receive order ...


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