The apex garment makers’ body in Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), has sought fund to create virtual platforms of the likes of eBay and Amazon so as to export clothes of local brands to the international market.
This was maintained in media reports, which underlined the BGMEA demanding fund allocation in the next budget for creating a global platform that would help the garment makers in Bangladesh to directly deliver apparel items to overseas buyers through individual shopping portals.
Amongst the BGMEA’s demand (in a budget proposal for the fiscal 2021-22) sent to the Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal last week, included fund allocation for health and education of garment workers, 10 per cent cash incentives for the next 10 years for exporting garments and in recycling textile waste to produce fashion items, waiver of interest against loans and incentives to help the industry deal with the fallouts of the coronavirus pandemic even as the garment makers’ body also expressed interest to sell apparel items of local brands at the retail level outside the country through the online platform, and has sought up to 15 per cent cash incentive against the exported items.
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