Relabelling of imported garments a threat to Caricom manufacturing sector

The Barbados Manufacturers Association (BMA) has echoed a sentiment expressed to Stabroek Business recently by a local seamstress regarding persons importing garments from the Far East, relabelling them and passing them off to consumers as Caribbean-made products.

The local seamstress, who operates from her home in Georgetown, told Stabroek Business she believed garments which were taken to her by clients for alternation, and which bore labels that suggested they were manufactured in Caribbean countries,