The Ready made garments (RMG) sectors emerged in late 1970s. The first Garments Industry named “DESH” Garment which was established in 1979s. By 1980s about 800 factories. There was very good growth in the 1990s; about 3400 factories came into operation. Today more than 4600 units exporting more than $5 billion an contribute about 48 percent of ours national export earning, 9.5 percent of GDP. The total number of workforce employed in this sector is 1.8 million, which is half of the total industrial workforce of the country. Besides this, more than 15 million people work in related industries from button-making to truckers to Insurance underwriters. Almost 85 percent of garments workers are women and most of them have come from villages. After introduction of the Multi Fibers Agreement (MFA). ASIA has become the world’s foremost exporters. Initially production was concentrated in the East Asian countries like Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, but by the middle of the 1980s others Asians countries become major producers like Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Haiti, Laos Madagascan and Myanmar emerge as major exporters of garments manufactures. Bangladesh is a good example of a country who was benefited from quota restriction on the countries export under MFA & General System of preferences (GSP) introduced in 1971 gave Bangladesh general access to European Union (EU), Canada and USA markets. BGMEA members export all kinds of woven, knit and sweaters items for men, ladies, boy’s girls and infants. Bangladeshi manufacturers export apparels to go countries of the world. But the major destinations of the country’s RMG products are USA, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, UK, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Holland, Denmark, Greece, Portugal, and Austria etc. Thus export of USA and EU countries constitute about 93% of total RMG export. With in ten years RMG
