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Morocco’s textile and clothing sector demonstrates measured resilience amid intensifying global competition, maintaining its eighth position among EU sourcing destinations with 7% growth in 2025. However, structural challenges reveal the urgent need for strategic transformation toward higher value-added production. Latest data from Eurostat and Morocco’s Foreign Exchange Office show the kingdom’s textile exports to the […]
Turkish ready-to-wear stores operating in Morocco are looking for local suppliers after Morocco raised customs duty on clothes imports from Turkey. Defacto’s Morocco country manager Hassan Avsar said the company has already started textile production in Morocco. LC Waikiki is following suit seeking local suppliers for their stores, Medias 24 reported. This is a direct […]
Morocco’s textile and clothes industry represents 15% of the country’s GDP but has been facing fierce competition of Turkish manufacturers that caused many layouts and put several factories out of business, pushing Moroccan professionals to seek a new strategy to boost competitiveness. They mostly blame the free trade agreement signed with Turkey, which has dumped […]
The Vita couture-Diprints group has opened last week in the Tanger free zone two industrial units specializing in digital fabric printing and ready-to-wear clothing, for an investment of MAD 220 million. The “Diprints” factory, specializing in digital printing on fabric, is the result of a joint venture with the Spanish textile group Santandarina. The factory […]