# US buyers have begun halting orders from Bangladesh, the world’s second-biggest garment manufacturer. This follows punishing US tariffs that pushed the government in Dhaka to plead for a three-month pause to the levies. Textile and garment production accounts for about 80-percent of exports in Bangladesh and the industry has been rebuilding after it was hit hard in a student-led revolution that toppled the government last year. US president Donald Trump hit Bangladesh with new tariffs of 37-percent, hiking duties from the previous 16-percent on cotton products.
US buyers halt clothing orders from Bangladesh as a result of Trump’s tariffs