UZBEKISTAN CLOTHING SECTOR EYES MAJOR INCREASE IN EXPORTS AS GOVERNMENT PUSHES AHEAD WITH LIBERALIZATION PROGRAMME
December 1st, 2019
THE UZBEKISTAN clothing and textile industry is eyeing a major increase in clothing and textile imports as its government liberalises what was until three-years-ago a largely unreformed post-Soviet state. A key goal is swapping raw cotton exports for overseas sales of added value textiles and clothing. Uzbekistan has been reforming since President Shavkat Mirziyoyev rose to power in 2016, following the death of the country’s only head of state since its independence, Islam Karimov. A 2017−2021 reform strategy was quickly developed, involving privatisation, ...
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