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Related Keywords: Africa, Asia, Asian textile industry, collapsing factories, Ethiopia, global textile, global textile brands, Inditex, Kenyan textile industry, production hub, soaring labour wages, Swedish chain H&M, US-based WalMart, value adding industry, violent workers protest

Global textile retailers have found alternatives to Asia as a production hub as they saw some bad event happening in Asia’s textile industry in the year 2014 like the soaring labour wages in China, violent workers’ protests in Cambodia and collapsing factories in Bangladesh. These events points at the fact that the entire Asia textile industry seems to be in transition and the transition lies in a shift to a more value-adding industry.

Related Keywords: Bangladeshi RMG companies, Declaration of Accession, Dhaka Apparel summit, environmental, German Parliamentary state secretary, global textile, Hans Joachim Fuchtel, partnership, promote, signed, social improvements, supply chain., Sustainable textiles

Hans-Joachim Fuchtel, the German Parliamentary State Secretary during his recent visit to Dhaka Apparel Summit 2014 to promote the work of the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles announcement four Bangladeshi ready-made garment (RMG) companies have joined the partnership.

The Partnership for Sustainable Textiles which was recently established by German Federal Development Minister Dr Gerd Mueller with the aim of bringing about environmental and social improvements in the global textile supply chain.