VIETNAMESE TEXTILE EXPO SHOWCASES FOREIGN INTERESTS

At this year’s Vietnam Textile & Garment Industry Expo, which bills itself as “the biggest and the most important event in the textile and garment industry of Vietnam”, only 60 of the 502 companies exhibiting were Vietnamese. WTiN.com visited the show, in Ho Chi Minh City, last month noting that 283 exhibitors were Chinese companies, with fabric, accessories and machinery manufacturers of 22 other countries making up the rest.“One of the reasons why there’s so many knitting companies moving from [South] Korea to Vietnam is the Trans-Pacific ...


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