Abstract
After Abolition of quota 2005, ready-madegarment (RMG) in Bangladesh has faced stiff competition to export garment inworld apparel market. The central bonded warehouse (CBW) facility, a key demand ofgarment manufacturers to support lead time. In global apparelsmarket, international buyers will place an order where lead time is the majorconsiderations by consumers when buying cloths. End of multi fiber arrangement(MFA) means is no more quota facility for Bangladeshi garment and in regard to qualityBangladeshi garment measures as low to medium category where they're not muchoption left to face the MFA consequence. But still major of the key areas leftfor Bangladesh are price competitiveness, short lead-time in respect of freetrade apparel market. For Bangladesh, lead-time is fast emerging as a seriousbottleneck. CBW is playing major part of a garment industry to reduce lead timeand also keep product price competitive. First this paper will briefly discuss CBWand back ward linkage, the back ground of CBW, taken steps to allow CBW,disagreement and export processing zone (EPZ) expansion in the RMG sector. Thispaper will briefly discuss lead time, process of short lead time, lead time getimportant issue for apparel marketing and CBW will influence on cost-pluspricing in the ready made garment industry in Bangladesh.
Key words: Central Bonded Warehouse, Export ProcessingZone, Backward linkage, Lead time of the ready-made garment industry of Bangladesh.
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