AMMAN — The clothing and footwear sector is not as
busy before
Eid Al-Adha as it used to be in past years, a state of affairs
blamed by industry people on different reasons.
اضافة اعلان
Normally, the days leading to the Muslim feast of
sacrifice is a time of bustling business activity in markets across the
Kingdom.
But this year, “the turnout in the penultimate week
(before Eid) decreased by 50 percent, and in the last week, until Wednesday, by
25-30 percent compared to the same period last year”, President of the Textile,
Readymade Clothes and Footwear Syndicate Sultan Allan told
Jordan News.
Allan attributed “the issue to postal parcels and
purchases from locations outside Jordan, which are exempt of taxes and fees”.
That, he explained, creates a problem that “cannot
be resolved or overcome by the sector’s merchants due to favoritism and double
standards in dealing with individual parcels and merchandise entering through
normal customs centers”.
He said he believed that lower purchasing volumes
“will weaken the sector, which will shrink in the near future”.
In turn, this will see layoffs or workers leaving
the sector, and all the problems accompanying unemployment, and impact related
sectors, such as packaging, advertising, advertising and decoration.
Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Supply spokesman
Yanal Al-Barmawi told
Jordan News that the market “operates by virtue of
supply and demand”.
“The role of the ministry is to monitor merchants,
ensure compliance with laws and regulations, and ensure the availability of
goods that citizens need,” he pointed out.
Naim, a men’s
clothing retailer in
Jabal Al-Hussein, told
Jordan News: “The movement
has been very normal during the last two weeks, there was no rush or demand
like before to buy clothes before the holidays.”
Shadi, the owner of a clothing store also in Jabal
Al-Hussein, attributed the noticeable decline in number of customers to the
fact Tawjihi exams coincide with the Eid season.
Shops selling women’s clothes and accessories saw
some movement in the week before Eid, he said, which is “not what we usually
get this season”.
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