Pham Xuan Hong, President of Ho Chi Minh City’s Textile Association, recently urged Vietnam’s textile industry to source raw materials from Malaysia and India while the coronavirus storm gets over in China. Textile firms there may witness raw material shortage by the second quarter as there would be no outgoing shipments from China before the end of February. This solution, however, is temporary as it will be extremely difficult to replace China as Vietnam’s main supplier of raw materials, Hong said.

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