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Thailand emerging as a new textile and garment hub

Thailand a global production hubSeveral competitive advantages, often overlooked, are making Thailand a global production hub. The country is perfectly positioned to benefit optimally from China’s export problems. Besides, it also has an amazing demographic of young workers as against China who faces a chuck of ageing population.

Increasing tariffs and US recession to pose challenges

Although the US-China conflict offers many benefits to Thailand, the country also faces certain challenges. For instance, the increasing tariff rates is likely to impact industries that supply goods of intermediate nature as they are a part of the planetary value chain. To deal with this issue, Thailand needs to implement sound policies. A weakening of the US markets is likely to negatively impact new investments in Thailand. To avoid this, the country needs to diversify its exports. It is already increasing its trade with the world which helps it to have more diversity.

The Thailand advantage

As per well-established import and export companies it is a lot easier to move products around Thailand compared to China where there areThailand emerging as a new textile and garment hub many restrictions and a lot of interprovincial tariffs which can make things complicated as far as exports are concerned. However, higher labor rates are a cause of concern as they make production at competitive rates difficult.

Another advantage that Thailand boasts of is, Bangkok is more exposed to Western influences and that influence is more evident every day. As far as advertising agencies are concerned there are many who claim that Thailand has a significantly more sophisticated marketing industry than China. Even basic things such as radio and the outdoor advertising seen on the streets is also a substantially higher quality in Bangkok compared to Beijing.

The nationalistic fervor is less forceful in Thailand. The country also offers superior quality of workmanship as against China, where though the labor is low, the quality of workmanship is also inferior.

A boost to the textile and garment industry

Thailand’s textile & garment industry, worth over $5 billion in exports in 2018, is expected to grow 5 per cent in 2019, spurred on by the US-China trade dispute. SUPA International based in Thailand is one of Asia’s largest garment manufacturers, with clients including Under Armor & Nike. It is benefiting optimally from Thailand’s skilled workforce and low labor costs in the garment manufacturing industry. This company has acted swiftly to benefit from the drastic move by President Trump – with a plan in place to expand its factory operations to ensure that it can benefit optimally from the situation. They will thus be able to accommodate many of the US clothing brands are looking to move production from China to Thailand.

Thailand’s sophisticated export facilities can handle a wide variety of export products such as electronics, machinery, motor vehicles and many other high-quality products. Also, the professional standards, service levels as well as education are of a better standard in Thailand, making it a preferred nation over China.

 
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