SAFE FACTORIES IN BANGLADESH WOULD COST 10 EXTRA CENTS PER GARMENT, SAYS BANGLADESH EU AMBASSADOR
September 1st, 2013
THE COST of making Bangladeshi garment factories safe would add USD0.10 cents to each garment shipped out of Bangladesh over the next five years, Ismat Jahan, the ambassador of Bangladesh to the European Union (EU) said yesterday.Speaking in a meeting of the European Parliament’s international trade committee organised to take stock of the progress in Bangladesh following the Rana Plaza factory collapse in April, Jahan said the overall cost of making her country’s factories fully compliant with structural and fire safety rules would be about USD3 billion ...
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