India Garment Manufacturers Lose American Orders Due To Child Labor

　　 India Knitwear of North Ludhiana Textile Center Garment manufacturing enterprises They are all concerned about an unusual situation. U.S.A Buyer cancel Their Order American buyers claim these India enterprises. hire 了 Child labor 。 According to well-informed sources, about 20% of the orders were withdrawn at the last minute.

A few months ago, the Ministry of Commerce and AEPC, the top decision-making body of India clothing exporters, launched a task to educate exporters not to use child labor, which would give the United States a chance to reiterate India's employment of child labour when it reviewed child labour months later.

Knitted club has 1000 knitting and textile production enterprises in Ludhiana. Mr Vinod Thapar, the club's president, said: "we are disappointed with the accusation of the textile industry. The textile industry is the largest job creation industry after agriculture, and is also regarded as the mother industry, providing clothing for India and the world. The current situation has a negative impact on the textile and garment industry of India, and really affects the development of the textile and garment industry. "

Goyal, President of Goyal knitted garments, said: "although we strongly feel that child labor should not exist, at the same time, we must not forget the living and eating conditions of poor communities in India. The policy of not employing child labor is 100% correct, if the government provides education, food and clothing for the poor children.

"Rainy weather, high temperature or cold weather, they do not have houses to protect themselves. Why do we think their work is suffering? We think the age of child labor should be reduced. On the one hand, India is short of labor. On the other hand, unemployed and poor people are dying of hunger. If he is a big boy, but he has no food and no house to live in, he needs a decent way to earn money, so his work should not be criticized. "

Goyal, President of Goyal knitted garments, said: "if we compare India with China, we feel that China's working conditions are even worse. However, because China adopts a closed door policy, nothing will be exposed. But after seeing poverty in India, big customers are always chasing after India manufacturers to point out these problems, but they do not hear them criticize China.

Speaking of the challenges facing the knitting industry, Ms. Goyal said that challenges included labour shortages, rising raw material prices, consumer resistance to price increases, weak dollar, social responsibility and more stringent standards. Another industry pointed out that the price of cotton and cotton yarn has gone up unusually and the technology renewal fund plan has been suspended. These problems are the factors that impede the growth of the knitting / textile industry.