Thailand's garment industry recovery 1

Thai Textile Industry Development Agency Huila, said    Thai Textile Industry Development Agency
the textile industry in Thailand has begun to growHuila said that although Thailand's textile export
from January to February 2010, textile exports roseprospects, exports forecast up to 7.2 billion U.S.
35% in Thailand, especially in fabric exports rose 30%dollars this year, but there are a lack of domestic
on this year's overall export growth of textilelabor as much as tens of thousands of people,
industry hold more than 15% confidence, will not beespecially experienced textile engineers, for example,
worth less than 72 billion dollars.the shortage of textile dyeing industrial chemical
    Willard said, the Thai textile export growthexperts and designers.
markets include ASEAN and the EU, exports to these    To this end, the textile industry to carry out
markets rose 50%, in particular the ASEAN markethuman resources development agencies must step
because of the ASEAN free trade agreement by theup training activities, scheduled for July 1-4 this year
support of ASEAN countries to promote trade tariffs.at the Bangkok International Convention and
    Willard said there are still a large number ofExhibition Center (BITEC) held GFT exhibition will be
investors investing in the construction of textileheld at the Young Designers Award competitions.
factories in Thailand to export to neighboring    Thai Garment Industry Association, said
countries to be processed, such as Laos, CambodiaDeputy Prime Kyrgyzstan, the current Thai operators
and Vietnam. The reason is labor costs andto obtain a large number of orders, but the impact of
transportation costs in Thailand is low, and thea shortage of labor, the whole industry can not
products of good quality, that the Thai textileeffectively improve productivity.
industry should make more efforts to develop the    Sukit forecast, Thai garment exports this year,
ASEAN market.worth about 3.5 billion U.S. dollars, the overall value of
    Huíla, said ASEAN countries are ordered eachThai textile exports estimated 7.2 billion U.S. dollars.
year the total value of 180 fabric billion, while exports    Sukit that Thailand will continue to expand the
of ASEAN, Thailand fabric market value is only 15Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Asian
billion U.S. dollars, there is still much room for growth.market, forecast in the next 5-10 years will be an
ASEAN countries ordered fabric from China worthimportant export market, export quantity and order
over 10 billion U.S. dollars, if the Thai company can beamount will be greatly, but there are a lack of Thai
adjusted to improve the quality of fabric to replacedesigners to the problem and the need to intensify
the fabric from China and Japan, will lead to aPeixun.
substantial increase in orders.