Higher production costs killing the industry, says ISIRI

10 Oct '05

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In a stinging criticism, Iran's Standard and Industrial Research Institute (ISIRI) blamed obsolete technology and ignorance of Iranian customer's tastes as main resons for cheap foreign textiles making inroads in to the country.

Media sources quoting Soudabeh Yahyazadeh, an official at ISRI said textile & leather prices have gone up considerably in recent times.

In the same vein, she said youngsters need for trendy clothes continued to be ignored.

Yet, she was quick to acknowledge high quality of Iranian textiles and marked that consumers looked for ISIRI quality control certificate while making purchases.

As reported earlier in our news section of https://www.fibre2fashion.com, Customs have lauched a massive nationwide campaign to stop sub-standard Chinese textiles entering Iran.

Meanwhile, garment exports from Iran stood at $37 million during March-August, with Azerbaijan Republic topping at $14.7, followed by Afghanistan at $8.5 million, Kyrgyzstan purchsed $3.3 million, Kazakhstan $2.8 million and Georgia $2.1 million.

However, there was a steep drop in garment exports to the tune of 10.5 percent against the figure recorded last year same period.

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