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We have enormous potential and decades-old know-how that could offer the sector enormous opportunities for expansion on the local and international markets,” economic operators active in the textile industry, present at the National Exhibition of Textile Products, Clothing and Footwear held at the Palais des Expositions from 10 to 19 April, unanimously insisted in front of the television cameras.

Only the relaunch of the local cotton crop, abandoned for reasons that are so far unexplained, would, for many textile manufacturers, be able to break the chain of dependence, which is very burdensome and constraining economically, on the external market.

This call, more than once expressed, could perhaps be listened to this time by the highest authorities of the country, who seem more than ever, determined to head for “this promising sector, all the indicators of which suggest a winning market locally and abroad because opening up to several free trade blocs (Arab, African and European), in addition to the skilled and non-expensive workforce and the strategic geographical positioning of the country”, hailed, indeed, the Minister of Trade and Export Promotion, Tayeb Zitouni, in an intervention made at the Fair.

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