From mid-2005 to the present, many large international Clothing Buyers to shift their business out of Sri Lanka, into more cheap manufacturing destination. During this time, in seven provinces to close 75 factories, including 24 factories in the past 6 months to close. The survey was conducted in February 2009, is a private advisory body RoyDawson conducted. The survey found that many of the major Sri Lankan Clothing Foreign buyers in the past three years, closed their offices in Sri Lanka, their manufacturing orders to other countries. Procurement office in Sri Lanka Apparel Association registered about 50 major international apparel sourcing units, 12 units in the past three years, closed their offices in Sri Lanka. The major shift procurement office in Singapore, India and Pakistan. Production mainly to India, Bangladesh and Vietnam. So far, about 20 foreign buyers no longer a stable operation in Sri Lanka. A major reason for their transfer business in Sri Lanka's production costs are relatively high and unstable security situation is also a Print . For example, buyers find it difficult to dispatch technical personnel to local factories for regular factory monitoring, which is at the security concerns. The survey also found that the seven provinces in the investigation of the 75 garment factories in mid-2005 and 2009, only in the past 6 months, there are 24 factories closed. These factories are mainly located in Katunayake, Biyagama, Koggala and SeethawakaPura the free trade zone. Some factories registered in the Investment Authority, part of the plant in the Ministry of Industrial Development Textile Office. In addition, these garment factories closed due to foreign exchange losses to combat unemployment and other related industries. This includes embroidery factory, garments washing plants, manufacturing plants fold, label manufacturing plant, silk manufacturing units Plastic Rack and the polyethylene bag manufacturing units, transport service providers, shipping agency, freight Proxy Agencies, customs clearing technological transformation, Food Providers, sub-contractors to provide services, such as fabric cutting, ironing and packing. The survey showed that in 1980 and 2004, in Sri Lanka has 650 large, medium and small-scale garment manufacturing plant, to increase the direct employment of 45 million people, 10 million people with indirect employment. However, since 2005, the termination of multi-fiber agreement and the end of export quotas, Sri Lanka's garment industry stable contraction. This is mainly due to Sri Lanka's apparel manufacturing with other Asian countries compared to the higher cost of production. The current global recession has also hit the apparel industry in the past 6 months, increase the frequency of plant closures. After reading this article,people also read: • • • • • EU warning Hummel brand jacket childrenJul 29.2009 "Create type" survival Japanese textile clothing industry in transition InspirationJul 29.2009 Analysts expect: pick up the Korean economy will slow pace ofJul 29.2009 Guard against inflation, the dollar behind the arbitrage flowsJul 29.2009 England beat the GDP inflation rateJul 29.2009 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/b09d3571f46527d3240ce073.html