AungHtoo, Myanmar's Minister of Commerce, Joins Myanmar At the opening ceremony of the industrial zone, SUMECWinWarGarments said that more and more European and Asian countries place orders with their Myanmar garment factories, and continued that although the local garment factory was not established for a long time, Is rapidly growing momentum.
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce, the garment industry's export value reached 337 million U.S. dollars in 2010 and nearly 3 billion U.S. dollars in 2014. In 2015, the export value reached 1.46 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 10% of the total.
Cambodia exported 80% of its garments to the EU in 2015. The Ministry of Commerce and Myanmar Garment Entrepreneurs Association plan a 10-year strategic plan, and in recent years the number of garment factories has risen to more than 400. In 2016, the Cambodian clothing industry hired About 350,000 are women, about 90% of whom are women.
