Cotton Farmers Blame China For The Collapse Of Textile Industries In Nigeria

The Chief Executive Officer of Arewa Cotton and Allied Products Limited, Anibe Achimugu, has blamed the Chinese market for the fall of textile industries in the country.
Achimugu disclosed this in his speech delivered at the 16th African Cotton Association, ACA, Annual Congress 2018 edition, held in Abuja on Wednesday, last-week.
He said: “Now, Chinese fabrics fraudulently labeled “Made in Nigeria,” which used to be a hidden international trade, is now an open trade. Their imitation fabrics come through Cotonou in Benin Republic, and undergo trans-shipment by smuggling into Nigeria in a trade estimated to be worth about $2 billion a year, equivalent to about a fifth of all annual recorded imports of textiles, clothing, fabric and yarn into the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. According to a team of experts working for the United Nations, in 2009, ‘The Nigerian textile industry is on the verge of a total collapse’.
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