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Major retailers are cancelling or postponing orders, putting Bangladesh’s garment industry, the country’s top foreign currency earner and employer, in jeopardy.

The value of order cancellations up to yesterday reached $124m – but the industry expects more to follow.

The top buyers so far forced to cancel or withhold orders include C&A, Zara, Pull and Bear, Baby Shop, Blackberrys, Inditex and Primark.

Apparel manufacturers say that just after Covid-19 hit China, they faced a shortage of raw materials, which disrupted their production.

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