"CAMBODIA"
Door Eunice Plummer
1. http://www.brecorder.com/images/2013/01/cambodia-flag_400.jpg
2. Advantages/Disadvantages of Involvement in Textile & Apparel
2.1. Advantages
2.2. cheaper products for consumer
2.3. leads to outsourcing
2.4. provides jobs
2.5. Disadvantages
2.6. more competition
2.7. widens gap b/w rich & poor countries
2.8. harder for small businesses to establish themselves
3. Primary source of wholesale & retail merchandising systems
3.1. clothes and shoes
4. Apparel/Textiles Production, Exportation, Importation
4.1. Logistics/Transportation
4.1.1. Duty/Category Classification
4.1.2. Specific duties are based on specific characteristics or measures or qualities of goods. Advalorem duties are base on the value of goods. Specific duties are levied on the basis of physical attributes like length, weight, volume, etc., of the commodities
4.2. Air transportation, waterway transportation, railway transport I.E. Infrastructure
4.3. Apparel/Textiles produced, exported, imported
4.4. 85% clothes, 95% including footwear
5. Technologies Present for Apparel/Textile
5.1. GPRO Technologies, innovative solution that have redefined how textile and apparel companies work on the shop floor by setting new standards for productivity data collection anywhere and anyplace.
6. Country's Role for Textile/Apparel
6.1. to encourage investors to do business and reward them with a series of large incentives
7. Traits of Cambodia
7.1. Social
7.2. More older Cambodians are still living
7.3. Geographical
7.4. bordered by lakes, mountains
7.5. Political
7.6. constitutional monarchy
7.7. Cultural
7.8. Buddhism and Hinduism
7.9. Economic
7.10. most older Cambodians live with their children
8. Demographics
8.1. Population
8.1.1. 14,952,665 (July 2012 est.)
8.2. Culture
8.2.1. Buddhist (official) 96.4%, Muslim 2.1%, other 1.3%, unspecified 0.2% (1998 census)
8.3. Currency
8.3.1. Cambodian Riel
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9. Psychographics
9.1. cotton/silk (major fabrics produced)
9.2. used fibers found in nature to make cloth
9.3. woad plant - important source of dye (highly developed industry)
10. Foreign Direct Investment/Guidelines
10.1. Net outflows in % of GDP
10.2. Lowest - 2007 - 0.01%
10.3. Highest - 1998 - 0.63%
10.4. Most current - 2010 - 0.18%
10.5. Net outflows in $
10.6. Fluctuated b/w $866,193,500 in 2007 & $33,000,000 in 1992
10.7. Most current - 2010 - $762,016,6000
11. Countries Resources/Infrastructure
11.1. Natural resources are very rich
11.2. depend heavily on agriculture for their livelihood
11.3. Infrastructure
11.3.1. Very weak
11.3.2. Limited train system - 375 miles
11.3.3. Highways - 22,227 miles, only 11.6% are paved
11.3.4. Seaport/Navigable waterways - 2,299 miles
11.3.5. Airports - 4 in the country