Bangladesh, Oct. 16 -- The country's readymade garment exporters are facing mounting uncertainty over raw material sourcing as a series of sudden policy changes since 2025 have disrupted supply chains and pushed up cotton yarn prices.Source Materials

The uncertainty emerged over policy changes including withdrawing bonded warehouse facilities for imports of certain counts of cotton yarn which gave rise to concerns among international buyers pushing them to shift orders to competing countries including India and Egypt.

Other changes are a land route ban on yarn imports imposed on April 15 last year, efforts to impose higher safeguard duties on cotton yarn, restriction on knit fabric imports in the new import policy which later on Septem...