Since then the interest of foreign investors in the country has grown, they often just invested in new machinery and the reconstruction of buildings. In 2012 Marzotto also relaunched Sametex, dedicated to velvet production
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Skilled labour, lower taxes, a good geographical position and competitive cost of energy led other Italian industrialists to relocate their production to our country. Despite this the foreign trade has had a deficit since 2004. The deficit in 2014 reached a record level of 15.5 billion crowns, as noted by the Czech Office of Statistics. The direct cause is an increasingly large import of cheap goods, mostly from China and Bangladesh.
What remains of the former great textile factories of the twentieth century are just dozens of buildings in ruins, ready to make room for offices and residential complexes.
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