According to the industry sources, the primary textile industry presently holds a capacity to supply over 80 percent of the fabric requirements of the knitwear industry, and 40 percent of that of the domestic RMG's woven sub-industries.
The primary textile sector of the country enjoyed a protective regime for many years prior to the EU relaxing its Rules of Origin (RoO) for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), as in order to avail duty-free benefits in the EU market the local garment producers' necessarily procured fabrics from domestic textile mills.
Following the EU's relaxation in its RoO, imports of woven fabrics by garment producers during the first quarter of the current year surged year-on-year by 88.34 percent and that of knitwear fabrics surged by 32.25 percent.
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