Fiji's garment industry will face more problems in the face of an impending free trade agreement (FTA) likely to be signed between Australia and China, says Fiji Textile Clothing and Footwear President, Ramesh Solanki. With employment and export revenue having registered a downward slide in textile sector, poor women gainfully employed in this sector will find it difficult to
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| get job elsewhere if the industry collapses, Mr Solanki said. “It will create further social problems and deride the poverty alleviation programme," Solanki said. Fiji’s garment exports declined from US$179 million in 2000 to less than US$114 million in 2005, recording a decrease of 35 per cent. Fiji garment industry would suffer once China-Australia negotiations fructify, observed Fiji Employers Federation President, Sangeeta Niranjan. 
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