Dhaka, Oct. 24 -- The government has taken an initiative to devise strategies for the country's apparel sector so that it could face competition and expand its market in the post-LDC graduation era, officials said.

They said the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) of Bangladesh would soon launch a study to assess the needs of the sector and provide support accordingly.

In a recent letter to the Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute (BFTI), the EPB has invited a proposal on conducting the study.

An EPB source mentioned that the competitor countries have regularly been providing different policy support to their export sectors, aiming to expand the market and survive the competition.

"We have taken a move to conduct a study for determining neces...