Binding constraints have continued to slow down the growth of the manufacturing sector, with the sector recording a growth of 1.25 percent in the third quarter of 2025 Q325, according to the latest Gross Domestic Product GDP report released by the National Bureau of Statistics NBS.
Analysis of the Q325 GDP report revealed that the textile and apparel as well as the paper and pulp subsectors helped to drag down the sector, with the textile and apparel subsector still in recession, contracting by 2.41 percent, mainly due to high production costs and smuggling, while the paper and pulp subsector also contracted by 1.07 percent.
