Cambodia’s garment export surges 24 pct in first 10 months
Garment industry, Cambodia’s largest income maker, reported a 24 percent rise in exports in the first ten months of 2013, according to figures of the country’s Ministry of Commerce Thursday. The figures showed that the country exported garment products in equivalent to 4.76 billion U.S. dollars during the January- October period this year, up 24 percent from the 3.82 billion U.S. dollars over the same period last year. In October alone, the Southeast Asian nation exported garment items worth 537 million U.S. dollars, up 40 percent compared with the 384 million U.S. dollars over the same month last year. … Garment sector accounts for about 80 percent of the country’s total exports. The sector comprises about 500 factories with some 510,600 workers. Monthly minimum wage for a worker is 80 U.S. dollars. …
Xinhuanet News Staff
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