Imported used clothes

Imported used clothes

From Bisnis Indonesia

Indonesians are fond of consuming used goods ranging from used aircraft, rail cars, buses, luxury cars, factory machines, electronics, paper, to used clothes and other products.

Some of these goods are imported legally and others are contraband. Indonesia is capable of producing such goods but they are more expensive or their quality lower than imported used commodities.

The country already has an aircraft industry, shipyards, railway plants as well as automotive, machine and electronic manufacturing industries, let alone its hundreds of textile factories. But the question is: can they produce cheap and good quality material?

Of course not. If they could, the common people in Indonesia would buy new, cheap and high quality clothes. Why can't they produce good fabrics?

Members of Indonesian Textile Manufacturers Association (API) should study the matter before judging others. Indonesian textile plants -- particularly the large ones fussing about imported used clothes -- import and operate used textile machines.

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