Production and shipments are dependent on strict lead times set by international clothing retailers and brands, yet the factories have had to be kept shut for the past three days

Production shutdown begins today

The growth rate hovered around 2.3% in the same period of FY23

The amount hit $2.9 billion in the January-May period

The primary textile sector will lose competitiveness in global arena, says BTMA president

$21.64 billion worth of apparels were shipped to the European Union in the Jul-May period this fiscal year

Hundreds of ready-made garment workers in Narayanganj’s Bandar upazila blocked the Dhaka-Chattogram highway yesterday, demanding due salary and festival bonus

Office hour 10am to 6pm, transaction hour 10am to 4pm

Shipment to the American market has been falling for high inflationary pressure

The reserves hit $18.67 billion on June 5, down from $18.72 billion on May 29

They made the call as a protest to journalists' entry restriction to BB office

Chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Kamal Uddin Ahmed today urged garment factory owners to take necessary measures to pay the workers before Eid as no vested interest group can use the workers to worsen the law and order situation

They also demanded action against factory owners who will stay aboard or will not pay before Eid

Apparel’s demand decreases among end consumers hit hard by high inflation, it says

Reserves hit $18.61 billion on May 21, up from $18.43 billion on May 15

Shafiur Rahman, regional operations manager of G-Star in Bangladesh, needs to send 6,146 pieces of denim trousers weighing 4,404 kilogrammes from a Gazipur-based garment factory to Amsterdam of the Netherlands.

The government’s target of earning $110 billion from exports by the fiscal year of 2026-27 would be difficult to attain because of the persisting challenges in the global and local economies, economists and businesspeople said.

EU ambassador meets BGMEA president in Dhaka

The first-ever Purchasing Managers' Index shows slower expansion at 62.2 in April

The crawling peg system for the taka is a delayed and, perhaps, inadequate response to the bleeding of forex reserves. Some economists suggest the central bank should go beyond this formula and open the exchange rate to market forces to stop the continuous erosion of reserves. Either way, exporters and remitters will celebrate more flexibility in the exchange rate.