Nigeria: Chinese Exporters Destroy Nigerian Textile Industry, Lament Man, NTMA

27 October 2008

Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) and Nigerian Textile Manufacturers Association (NTMA), has raised alarm over the systematic and deliberate destruction of the Nigerian textile industry and economy by unscrupulous Chinese their textile exporters and called on the Federal government to engage the Chinese government over the matter.

In a joint presentation at a policy dialogue forum on Nigerian Textile, organised by the National Union of Textile, Garment Tailoring Workers of Nigeria in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FEF) in Abuja, MAN and NTMA, lamented that the most serious problem afflicting the textile industry in Nigeria is the unabated influx of counterfeit textiles from China.

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