Due to the rampant spread of the Delta virus variant of the new crown virus, the Bangladesh government decided to impose restrictions on the country’s textile and textile industry starting from July 23 after the Muslim Eid al-Fitr (July 19-23). The garment industry implemented a nationwide blockade policy. (Bangladesh is the second largest exporter of textile and clothing products in the world after China.)
According to observations, due to the blockade period, 40% of Bangladesh’s annual textile exports The overlap in time makes things complicated; orders for the 2021/11 autumn and winter series began to be delivered around May. Compared with the same period in 2020, Bangladesh’s export volume increased by about 12%.
The blockade may cause some customers in the industry to transfer orders, but there is no other region to transfer except China, where manufacturing costs are higher. Although the governments of Cambodia and Thailand have not yet implemented blockade policies on the industry, as far as is known, larger exporting countries such as Vietnam and Indonesia have begun to implement safety restrictions in response to the epidemic. </p
