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Published in TZ Latest News 23 June, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff

Inspection tensions add to Bangladesh garment industry’s woes

It took Western safety inspectors only about an hour to tour a factory the size of three football fields before ordering a partial shutdown of Sonia & Sweaters Ltd, a Bangladesh clothing supplier to Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) and Debenhams (DEB.L). Such erratic decision-making poses a new set of problems for Bangladesh’s $22 billion garments industry, whose safety record has been under the microscope since the collapse of a factory near Dhaka that killed more than 1,100 workers last year.

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