| Abstract: | The textile and apparel industry is believed to be a bigger contribution to empower Ethiopia’s Economy being the industries labor intensiveness aligned with the countries availability of labor force and duty free trade access to preferential markets. Despite the above and many other opportunities the countries’ textile and apparel export performance is insignificant compare to other countries and underperforming towards the country target. The main purpose of this study is to investigate on the determinants of the export performance of Ethiopian textile and apparel product. The study has been conducted by taking factories which are located in Addis Ababa aspopulation and data was collected using structured questionnaires distributed to operational, middle and upper level managers in all twenty onefactories. The data at part was done using SPSS version 20 (Statistical Package for the Social Science). The researchers identified some of the major determinants that could challenge the export performance of Ethiopian textile and apparel products are poor human capital, low access to input, week international marketing capacity and infrastructure. The demographic variables were analyzed through descriptive statistics tools to determine the effect of the factors identified. The study revealed that the existence of strong relationship between the performance of Ethiopian export on textile and apparel products and the independent variables which are human capital, access to input, marketing capacity and infrastructure. The study is significant for researchers as it helps to improve the understanding of factors influencing performance of Ethiopian export on textile and apparel products. Finally this study recommend both the government and manufactures should work close to improve the skill of labor in the industry, attract FDI to invest in producing the input locally, invest more on infrastructure and trade related issues. |
