US garment retailers and brands have reached out to Indian apparel manufacturers, exhorting the latter to partly absorb a likely product price increase due to US President Donald Trump’s tariff policy. The US companies are striving to ensure that American consumers do not experience a steep price rise after Trump slapped India with a 26…
India’s ‘knitwear capital’ Tiruppur is grappling with labour shortage as thousands of migrant workers who went back to their homeland to cast votes in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections are not willing to return. The crisis comes at a time when export enquiries from the US are showing early signs of recovery. There is an…
The Tiruppur apparel industry is on the brink of a labour crisis as thousands of migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh are returning to their homeland amid increasing job opportunities there, particularly after the inauguration of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. Migrant workers constitute half of the estimated 600,000 workers at apparel units in this textile…
