PHILIPPINES CLOTHING INDUSTRY EXPORTS SAY MORE COMPETITIVENESS NEEDED TO PROFIT FROM US-CHINA TRADE WAR
August 1st, 2019
Clothing industry sources in the Philippines say that the USA-China trade war has helped boost orders for all garment-exporting countries in southeast Asia but their country, despite the Philippines government’s plan to boost local manufacturing capacity. The much-trumpeted Manufacturing Resurgence Programme of President Rodrigo Duterte had originally stated that a national ‘Roadmap for the Garments and Textile Industry’ should be drafted by the end of last year (2018). But it has not been released. And, moreover, receipts from exports of ...
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