SRI LANKA: Industry sees 10-15% drop in garment exports
Author: just-style.com | 22 January 2009
With Sri Lanka's two main apparel industry markets - the US and the EU - going into recession, the country's garment exports are expected to drop 10%-15% in 2009 costing tens of thousands of jobs.
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