"We would now reach out to labour contractors to remove child labour and get the supply chain of the suppliers audited so that the industry is not held ransom by our global buyers due to prevalence of child labour or bonded labour in the supply chain," Chatterjee added.
AEPC believes that the measures will increase the cost to produce textiles by 5 percent, but that the increased expense is significantly less than the potential lost revenue due to being blacklisted by importers. These increased costs could be passed on to importers, resellers or retailers.
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