Indian apparel manufacturing lost US orders for child labor

The business club reported on December 3 that knitted and garment manufacturing companies in the Ludhiana Textile Center in northern India are all concerned about an unusual situation where U.S. buyers cancelled their orders and U.S. buyers claimed that these Indian companies have hired child labor. According to informed sources, about 20% of orders were cancelled at the last minute.

A few months ago, the Ministry of Commerce and the top decision-making body of garment exporters in India, the Clothing Export Promotion Council (AEPC) carried out a project to educate exporters not to use child labor, as this would give the United States a chance, after a few months When reviewing the issue of child labor, it once again condemned the employment of child labor in India.

The Knit Club has 1,000 knitwear and textile manufacturing companies in Ludhiana. Mr Vinod Thapar, president of the club, said: “We are disappointed with the accusations that the textile industry has been accused. The textile industry is second only to The largest job-creating industry in agriculture is also considered to be the mother industry, providing clothing for India and the world. The current situation has a negative impact on the Indian textile and garment industry, which really affects the development of the textile and garment industry."

Goyal President Goyal said: “Although we strongly feel that child labor should not exist, but at the same time, we cannot forget the living and eating conditions of poor communities in India. The policy of not employing child labor is 100% correct if the government is poor children. Provide education, food and clothes."

“Because it is rainy, hot or cold, they don’t have houses to protect themselves. So why do they think that their jobs are punishable? We believe that the age of child labor should be lowered. On the one hand, India lacks a labor force, on the other hand, unemployment and poverty. The person is dying of hunger. If he is a big child, but he has no food for food, he has no house to live in, he needs a decent way to earn money, then his work should not be criticized."

Goyal President Goyal said: "If we compare India with China, we feel that China's working conditions are even worse, but because China takes a closed policy, nothing is exposed. However, after seeing India's poverty, large customers Always chasing Indian manufacturers to point out these issues later, but they did not hear them criticizing China."

Ms. Goyal talked about the challenges faced by the knitting industry, saying that challenges include labor shortages, rising raw material prices, consumer boycotts of rising prices, weaker U.S. dollars, social responsibility and more stringent standards. Another person in the industry pointed out that the price of cotton and cotton yarn has risen abnormally, and the plan for technological upgrading has stopped. These problems are factors that hinder the growth of the knitting/textile industry.