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The industry supplies low-cost clothing to the United States, and is a crucial part of the Asian countries’ economies.

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says Sri Lanka’s garment industry. Sri Lanka is just stabilising after the economic crisis. Stringently following the International Monetary Fund norms and increasing the tax base, etc.

“We will have to write our obituary notice,” said Mr Tuli Cooray, a consultant at the Joint Apparel Association Forum of Sri Lanka, an industry association. “Forty-four per cent is no joke.

The readymade garments industry is of existential importance ... Another major South Asian casualty of Trump's "reciprocal tariff" move is Sri Lanka, which now faces a 44% tariff.