Bangladesh garment manufacturers call for fair pricing
Bangladesh
garment manufacturers want a ‘commensurate adjustment’ by global brands
and retailers in pricing and sourcing garments from developing
countries like Bangladesh. They conveyed this at a recent seminar on
responsible garment supply chain organized at The Hague by the TMC Asser
Institute, a leading think tank in the Netherlands.
Representatives
from the civil society, Accord, International Apparel Foundation, the
Dutch Government and academics and researchers participated in the
day-long seminar, a Bangladeshi news agency reported quoting the
Bangladesh Embassy in The Hague.
Any
discussion on wage increase has to be matched by commensurate real
increase in pricing for the actual producers within the global apparel
supply chain, Bangladesh High Commissioner to Sri Lanka M Riaz
Hamidullah told the seminar.
Bangladesh
Ambassador to the Netherlands Sheikh Mohammed Belal, Bangladesh High
Commissioner to Sri Lank M Riaz Hamidullah, and BGMEA President M
Siddiqur Rahman and Vice-President (Finance) Mohammed Nasir also spoke
at the programme.
The
BGMEA leadership shared a number of key aspects to illustrate the way
the RMG manufacturers in Bangladesh stepped forward in transforming
garment manufacturing by adopting new values, approached and
technologies, pledging on labor rights and occupational safety.
Bangladesh
Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) president M
Siddiqur Rahman said while more than 300 Bangladeshi readymade garment
units are to receive Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design (LEED) certification offered by the non-profit US Green Building
Council (USGBC), most of them do not receive the expected response from
brands and retailers in spite of significant investment and
innovations.
All
the sessions discussed the need for European governments to engage with
their respective brands and retailers to urgently look at increasing
pricing as part of making apparel supply chain responsible and
sustainable. (DS
Source: The Economic Times, India Saturday, 21 April 2018