MYANMAR’S TEXTILE INDUSTRY IS SLEEPING GIANT PREPARING TO WAKE

THE LIBERALISATION taking place in Myanmar has been making the global textile and clothing sector excited about the country’s thus far untapped potential to export indigenous and mainstream textiles. Aung Min, research director of the business insight and social insight department at the Myanmar Marketing Research and Development Co. Ltd (MMRD) told WTiN.com that Myanmar already makes and exports woven fabric rolls and glass fibre fabric, for instance. And this export market has a lot of space to grow. Last year (2012), China, Italy, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand ...


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