CROATIA TEXTILE AND CLOTHING SECTOR COULD EXPLOIT EU ACCESSION – BUT THERE ARE RISKS
July 1st, 2012
BY MARK ROWE
CROATIA will join the European Union (EU) in one year's time (on July 1, 2013), and while the country's low wages offer opportunities to sell local textiles and clothing into the EU, the Croatian sector could be in better shape.
Textile and clothing products make up 5% of Croatia's overall imports from the EU's 27 member states and 8.2% of Croatia's exported industrial goods are made by the sector.
According to Dr Mirjana Gambiroza Jukic, business secretary of the Association of the Textile and Clothing Industry of the Croatian Chamber of Economy, ...
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