SRI LANKAN KNITWEAR SECTOR CONFIDENT IT WILL RIDE OUT CURRENT POLITICAL CRISIS
November 1st, 2018
SRI LANKA’S knitwear industry is insisting that despite the country’s current political turmoil over who should lead its government, its business is operating smoothly, noting that it had managed to maintain commerce during the country’s 26 years-long civil war that ended in 2009.
“I don’t know if the political situation here is being exaggerated,” Joint Apparel Association Forum Sri Lanka (JAAFSL) secretary general Tuli Cooray told Knitting International. “We had a serious civil war and the garment sector [including knitwear] still survived,” he ...
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