manufacturing
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Outsourcing of Pet Apparel & Accessories Manufacturing to Vietnam
April 04, 2016 Cut and sew manufacturers, commonly referred to as cut and sew apparel contractors, create apparel and accessories out of materials owned by the companies that contract them.
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HIPC Pledges Incentives For Tenants In Many Sectors
November 19, 2015. Most foreign companies looking to establish in Vietnam today, in manufacturing, food processing or logistics, are encouraged to set up in Industrial parks. There is a boom in the establishment of these parks that offer better infrastructure, management, licensing assistance and also on site customs clearance. Hiep Phuoc Industrial Park JS Co.,
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Why More Goods Will Be Labeled ‘Made in Vietnam’
October 20, 2015. In Long An, Vietnam, a large rural span south of Ho Chi Minh City, huge factories have been planted and have started manufacturing goods for Western companies like sportswear maker Nike Inc. Companies like this are taking advantage of the young workforce and extremely cheap wages in Vietnam, which are about half
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TPP: Impact on FII and FDI
June 2015 A gradual increase in incoming investment post deal would be the best outcome in HSC’s opinion A game changer such as TPP comes with both opportunities and associated risks. The key is to avoid squandering the potential huge dividends by avoiding the pitfalls of allowing structural imbalances to be created as a result
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TPP’s Possible Downsides for Vietnam’s Factories
November 21, 2015. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is supposed to bring more business to Vietnam’s manufacturers, but there is a possible downside to it. It could potentially cause high labor costs and strained production for the nation’s factories. Stanley Szeto, the chief executive of Lever Style, a Hong Kong-based firm that manufactures shirts and pants
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Vietnam’s Transformation Into a Trade Surplus Nation: A Major Plus for Currency
Vietnam has posted 9 consecutive months of trade surpluses and HSC forecasts that this will continue for the foreseeable future. In our opinion, we are witnessing the historic transformation of Vietnam into a trade surplus nation. This has several key causes; the main cause being the building of an industrial base largely funded by heavy
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Logistics – Still Adolescent but Growing Up Fast
September 11, 2015. Still Adolescent But Growing Up Fast Vietnam’s USD 50-60 billion logistics industry is growing fast but is still in the early stages of development. The sector has been growing at ~20% per year and is expected to sustain double-digit growth for at least the next 5-10 years. Most Vietnamese logistics players are
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TPP Raises Long-Run Expectations
Monthly Data Sep Oct CPI (% YoY) 0.00 0.00 Real retail sales (% YoY) 9.1 8.6 IIP (% YoY) 10.1 8.8 Export val (USD b) 13.8 14.4 Import val (USD b) 14.0 14.5 Disbursed FDI (USD b) 1.2 2.2 Yearly Forecasts 2014A 2015F Nominal GDP USD b 185.7 200.0 Real GDP (% YoY) 6.0
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