Turkey has imposed an additional 50 per cent customs duty on Pakistani handmade carpets, which can have tumultuous impact, since Turkey is the second biggest importer of Pakistani handmade carpets. The imposition of the duty comes ...
Tags: Handmade Carpets, Carpets
The exports of textiles and apparel from Philippines crossed US$ 2 billion mark last year, according to the data from the industry and trade statistics department, under the Philippine Statistics Authority. Philippines earned US$ ...
Tags: Textile, Garment Exports
Pakistan’s ministry of textile industry has announced the long-awaited Textile Policy 2014-19, which sets annual exports target of US$ 26 billion by 2019. “The annual exports target of $26 billion by 2019 is ambitious but ...
Tags: Textile Policy, Textile
Irrespective of the fine print in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, expected to be signed this year, Vietnam’s apparel industry is likely to benefit at the expense of its South Asian competitors like Bangladesh and Sri ...
Tags: Apparel Industry, Apparel
Japan has agreed in principle to further relax rules of origin norms for importing knitwear from Bangladesh, and modalities for the same are being worked out, foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque told reporters after his meeting with the ...
Tags: Knitwear, knitwear products
The Quaid-e-Azam Apparel Park, the most modern project in South Asia, proposed to come up on 1,500 acres near Motorway-2 that connects Lahore with Islamabad, has been handed over for its management and development work to the Punjab ...
Tags: job opportunities, exports, Apparel
The European Parliament has completed the last stage in the process to grant the Philippines Generalised System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) that will provide duty free entry to the EU for some of the most important Philippine exports, ...
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has requested buyers to raise the prices of readymade garments (RMG) so that RMG workers could lead a more comfortable life. The Prime Minister said this while inaugurating the first-ever ...
Tags: readymade garments, Apparel
Since the Rana Plaza building collapse and Tarzeen factory fire, noteworthy progress has been made in overhauling the Bangladesh garment sector, US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian Affairs, Nisha Desai Biswal said ...
Tags: building collapse, factory fire, Apparel
The Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers & Exporters Association (PRGMEA) has urged the Government of Pakistan to increase gas and power supply to the textile industry, in order to help exporters cut their energy costs and release ...
Tags: power supply, gas supply, Textile
The Punjab regional chapter of the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has requested Finance Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar to direct the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to start processing the sales tax refund claims of textile ...
Tags: AOTMA Punjab, Sales Tax Refunds, Textile
The Punjab regional chapter of the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has requested Finance Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar to direct the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to start processing the sales tax refund claims of textile ...
Tags: APTMA Punjab, Apparel, Accessories
Uninterrupted power supply is imperative in order to reap maximum benefits from the Generalised System of Preferences Plus (GSP Plus) status granted to Pakistan by the European Union, a delegation of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association ...
Tags: Power Supply, Imperative, Textile
Uninterrupted power supply is imperative in order to reap maximum benefits from the Generalised System of Preferences Plus (GSP Plus) status granted to Pakistan by the European Union, a delegation of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association ...
Tags: Power Supply, Apparel, Accessories
The ongoing electricity and gas load shedding in Pakistan’s Punjab province has forced the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) to consider various options, including shutdown of the industry. At a general body ...
Tags: electricity, gas load shedding, textile