Garment workers walk to their factory in Phnom Penh on September 20 2019. Picture: AFP/TANG CHHIN SOTHY
The garment industry is Cambodia’s largest employer, generating $7bn for the economy each year. It faces uncertainty after the EU, in February, began a process that could suspend the country’s special trade preferences. Cambodia benefits from the EU’s “everything but arms” trade programme, which allows the world’s least-developed countries to export most goods to the EU free of duties.
“Even though this figure is not what we wanted, it is positive, as Cambodia is in the midst of uncertainties around trade preferences,” Sina said. “If our wage goes higher than countries in the region, we will also suffer.”
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