MOROCCO CLOTHING INDUSTRY WORKS TO DEEPEN BACKWARD LINKAGES AS IT EYES NEAR-SOURCING BUSINESS

The Moroccan Textile and Clothing Industry Association (AMITH) is pushing ahead with a new strategic programme to develop backward linkages for its clothing industry command to enable it to grab more business as European and American brands consider nearsourcing their products. The goal of ‘The Textile Sector – 2035 Visions and Convictions’ is to boost Morocco’s clothing and textile exports, which in 2019 saw 1,628 companies, employing 189,000 people, exporting Moroccan Dirham MAD36.5 billion’s (USD3.88 billion) worth of product, according to the ...


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