India’s “Business Standard” reported that small and medium-sized traditional embroidery companies in Lucknow have asked the government to take measures to ban the import of Chinese embroidered clothing, claiming that it is urgent to protect this traditional industry in India.
In the past two years, India has been flooded with Chinese machine-made embroidery products, with novel styles and low prices, which have had a huge impact on traditional Indian embroidery products that are manual, high-cost, and low-efficiency. Indian manufacturers complain that it is difficult for consumers to distinguish the difference between Chinese machine-made embroidery and traditional Indian hand-made embroidery. Merchants have also turned to selling cheap Chinese products, resulting in hundreds of job losses. They call on the government to ban the import of toys from China. Imported embroidered clothing. The chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Silk and Handicraft Products Promotion Association, where Lucknow is located, supports imposing restrictions on Chinese products and complains that Indian governments at all levels have not paid enough attention to small and medium-sized silk and embroidery enterprises.
