BULGARIA SNAPSHOT: Textile and apparel industry in brief
Author: just-style.com | 19 October 2010
Bulgaria, with its population of 7.6m, joined the EU on 1 January 2007, together with Romania. From 2000-2007 it looked as if Bulgaria would take over Romania's role as the biggest eastern European apparel supplier to markets in Western Europe. But exports have fallen since the last quarter of 2008.
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