Burma Clothing Will Make "100% Burma" In The Future.

According to an article recently published by foreign media websites, the time for new players to join in the clothing game is ripe except for the recognized clothing centers such as Bangladesh and Vietnam. Burma, Haiti and Ethiopia hope to revive the once thriving industry, or even to develop the garment industry from scratch.

Recently, Burma

The Secretary General of the manufacturers' Association (Mgma) said that the clothing industry in Burma is shaping the new brand image of "Burma made" and striving to promote the clothing produced by Burma to the whole world.

From the Burma foundry to Burma manufacturing, Burma garment industry has begun to show its eager attitude.

Burma clothing will make "100% Burma" in the future.

Mgma secretary general said that although some are currently labeled "

The label's clothing is only made in Burma, but the materials, capital and technology for making these garments may come from Burma local enterprises in the future.

Mgma chairman pointed out that Burma now enjoys the EU GSP treatment, so the recent orders from this market have increased.

East Asia and Southeast Asia are the key markets for clothing exports in Burma, especially in the Japanese market.

Japan's trade promotion agency supports Burma's apparel industry to strengthen exchanges with Japanese businesses. The agency will organize talks regularly, share experiences from each other, and help Burma's apparel industry enhance its brand image.

At present, the local garment manufacturers in Burma are mainly engaged in the production and processing of the specified style orders. Their customers mainly come from Japan, China, Malaysia and Germany.

Low labor costs and preferential tariff preferences

In recent years, due to the low labor costs, abundant labor force and preferential tariff preferences exported to Europe and the United States, Burma has gradually been regarded as the target country of unfinished garment production centers and purchase orders.

The textile and garment industry, which can create a large amount of foreign exchange and employment opportunities, has been highly regarded by the Burma industry. However, some recent comments from the international industry point out that Burma textile and garment industry still needs to face a series of challenges to become a pillar industry to stimulate economic growth.

As a newly made garment manufacturing country, Burma has the advantages of low labor costs, abundant labor force and tariff free and quota free exports to the EU. In addition, the technical support provided by the Japan Trade Promotion Council and the Ministry of industry, commerce and industry and the consumption scale of 60 million of Burma's domestic market have also become an important factor supporting the development of the industry.

Win Aung, chairman of the Burma chamber of Commerce and industry, said that the EU's GSP and the EU's suspension of sanctions against Burma both helped the development of the garment industry in Burma.

In addition, Burma is one of the 10 ASEAN member countries. When the ASEAN economy was fully completed in 2015, Burma would share the tariff preferences of 600 million people's consumer market with other Member States, Brunei, Kampuchea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand.

Thailand Tai Hua Farmers Research Center once made a research report on Burma textile industry. The report points out that Burma is regarded as a new investment destination with potential for development in ASEAN countries.

The Thai Farmers' Research Center believes that for Thailand textile and garment enterprises that are looking for production bases to maintain their survival, Burma is one of the countries worthy of investment. Burma's garment manufacturing industry is booming. The reason is that other manufacturing powers including Thailand need to diversify production risks and pay more attention to the investment clothing industry in Burma.

The main advantage of Burma is that Burma has the lowest labor wages and production costs compared with other neighbouring countries that are also the same as garment production bases.

Disadvantaged working environment is unstable and supporting facilities are lagging behind.

Objective factors such as the unrest of Burma's migrant workers and backwardness of industrial facilities will still constrain industrial development.

In a report on its 2013 human rights risk, Maplecroft, a British business consultant, pointed out that although Burma has undergone reforms in the past year and a half, Burma's risk profile remains "very high" in the eyes of foreign investors.

The labour law, which was implemented in October 2011, allowed workers to strike and organize trade unions. Workers clearly realized that the time had come to improve their wages and working conditions.

According to the Burma times report, on May 1, 2012 ~7 30 workers in 70 garment factories went on strike demanding higher wages and better working conditions.

At the same time, even though the Burma clothing trade union has set up training centers and technical schools, it is still a problem to find and retain skilled garment factory workers in Yangon.

Garment factories complain that once trained workers become skilled technicians, they will leave the factory to the Thailand border for higher treatment.

Another reason for the weak competitiveness of Burma's garment manufacturing industry in the global market is that the quality of productivity is still lower than that of Vietnam, Kampuchea and Bangladesh.

The Yangon Electricity Supply Bureau has announced that from January 1, 2013, several industrial areas in Yangon will be blackout from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m.

All textile mills and almost all garment factories must have their own diesel generators to supplement their electricity.

According to the survey, the total cost of electricity in Burma garment factories is about 30%~40% of the total labor cost. The most serious reason is that the textile machinery and equipment are accelerated depreciation due to voltage instability.

Besides kenaf and jute,

It is also one of the main crops in Burma. However, due to the backwardness of upstream industry facilities, investment must be introduced to support the rapidly expanding export garment industry.

The industry calls for the development of industrial washing equipment and accessories and packaging materials in order to facilitate the spinning and dyeing industry to attract investment.