Apparel exporters are losing Russian buyers
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Once a fast-growing market for Bangladeshi ready-made garment exporters, shipments to Russia have been falling in recent years after Western sanctions over the Ukraine war cut Moscow off from international payment systems and disrupted shipping routes.
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Export growth picks up as garment rebounds
2 October 2026
The country’s merchandise exports rose 8.54 percent year-on-year to $3.93 billion in September, helped by a gradual recovery in garment shipments, according to data from the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) released yesterday.
2 October 2026
News Analysis / RCEP bid moves forward. What now?
28 September 2026
The RCEP ministers approved the establishment of an Ad Hoc Accession Working Group to advance the accession process of Bangladesh, alongside Chile, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka
28 September 2026
LDC deferment proposal gaining major support, Titumir says
27 September 2026
Bangladesh is gaining support from major countries and trade blocs for the country’s proposed LDC graduation deferment at the 81st UN General Assembly (UNGA) session, adviser to the prime minister on the ministries of finance and planning Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir said yesterday.
27 September 2026
Can the US become a top import source for Bangladesh?
25 September 2026
Traditionally, China and India have been the major sourcing destinations
25 September 2026
Rising heat puts Bangladesh’s garment workers at risk
24 September 2026
For Bangladesh, where rising temperatures are increasingly threatening the health and productivity of garment workers, a new heat stress management toolkit from the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) offers manufacturers and global brands a framework to address heat risks in factories.
24 September 2026
Expired cylinder found at Ashulia explosion site
22 September 2026
Omar Sultan, a 38-year-old truck driver, was with colleagues at Pretty Group’s loading and unloading area in Jamgara, Ashulia, around 6:30pm on Sunday when, five minutes later, a massive explosion sent him fleeing.
22 September 2026
SPOTLIGHT / BATEXPO returns after 12-year hiatus
17 September 2026
After a 12-year pause, the Bangladesh Apparel and Textile Exhibition (BATEXPO), a flagship event of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), is returning this year.
17 September 2026
Rawhide traders down in the dumps
Seasonal traders of rawhide have been left disappointed by this year’s sales as the price for untanned leather has remained low for two consecutive years now.
17 August 2020
Cheap rawhides have nothing to do with high prices of leather goods: experts
That very low prices of rawhides will be able to keep prices of leather goods such as footwear and bags from going abnormally high in the domestic markets is not necessarily true, finds research of the Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission (BTTC).
15 August 2020
TJMaxx yet to clear dues of Bangladeshi suppliers
News of garment work order cancellations and holdups and deferred payments became commonplace when pandemic struck.
11 August 2020
Cotton imports tipped to return to pre-pandemic levels by year-end
Cotton imports witnessed a slump for the first time in over a decade last fiscal year due to a fall in demand from local mills amid a stunning drop in apparel work orders for the global coronavirus pandemic.
9 August 2020
Govt has come up with a solution to the hurdle to higher leather exports
The government will allow construction of effluent treatment plants (ETPs) by individual tanneries inside the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate (STIE) in a bid to expedite the process of obtaining much-needed certification from the Leather Working Group (LWG) to boost export of leather goods.
8 August 2020
Garment export orders rolling in once again
It appears garment manufacturers are at last breathing a sigh of relief as work orders for apparel items from international retailers are coming back with the reopening of their stores in the European and American markets.
6 August 2020
Steps taken, yet rawhide wasted
The government was hoping there would be no recurrence of the waste of rawhide last Eid-ul-Azha.
4 August 2020
Export makes a stunning rally in July
July, it seems, will go down the annals as the month in which the Bangladesh economy lifted the pall of gloom brought on by the global coronavirus pandemic.
4 August 2020
Bad news for rawhide trade this year too
The rawhide business at the retail level across the country faces a major blow this year as well because of the low demand despite government's efforts.
2 August 2020
Most garment workers got full bonus and salary
Almost all the garment and knitwear factories have paid their workers Eid festival bonus and salaries for July yesterday, in a refreshing departure from previous years, where the days leading up the religious festivals are almost always marred by demonstrations.
30 July 2020
Economy in a limbo
The economy, it seems, is in a sort of limbo, neither fully on recess nor roaring ahead.
30 July 2020
Bonus disbursement not up to the mark
The owners of many companies in Bangladesh’s 42 various industrial, manufacturing and service sectors failed to provide their workers with festival bonuses for Eid-ul-Azha by yesterday, the stipulated deadline to disburse the annual allowance.
27 July 2020
Exporters get yet another shot in the arm from govt
The government yesterday gave yet another stimulus package worth Tk 3,000 crore for the export-oriented industries to help them provide wages and salaries to their workers for July.
23 July 2020
Eid-ul-Azha primed to flood the country with rawhide
Risk looms large of a recurrence of last year’s discarding of rawhides en masse during Eid-ul-Azha in Bangladesh this year for a low injection of funds in the sector and a lack of preparedness of both the government and traders.
23 July 2020
Pandemic Redemption: Recent sales spike for local weavers soothing missed Eid, Baishakh sales
The coronavirus pandemic continues to bring surprises, this time around in the form of booming sales for spinners, weavers and finishers who serve the local markets.
18 July 2020
Apparel-makers pursue another round of low-cost loans
Pandemic-hit apparel exporters have sought continuation of low-cost loans from the government for three more months to help them pay wages to workers as the sector is struggling to stay afloat.
16 July 2020
Is the $41b export target a mountain too high amid pandemic?
Aiming high is always a welcome attribute. But, sometimes, in its quest, one ends up setting targets so high that it just seems hopeless.
16 July 2020
Orders are finally trickling in, but garment factories are still reaching out for the axe
One has got to feel for the garment workers. Despite the availability of low-cost loans to pay wages, repeated requests from the labour ministry and a recent uptick in work orders from international buyers, they are getting the chop.
13 July 2020
Promising Asian markets could revive export earnings, say analysts
The promising growth in export earnings seen at three Asian markets during the previous fiscal year has come to a halt following the coronavirus outbreak.
9 July 2020
Garment work orders coming back slowly
With the reopening of outlets of major clothing retailers and brands in the EU and US, the inflow of work orders at local garment factories has been on the rise, albeit on a limited scale.
8 July 2020