A Pakistani yarn merchants' body has demanded that the Pakistan government impose 15 per cent regulatory duty on cotton yarn imports from India on back of surge in imports. Addressing the media, senior office bearers at Pakistan Yarn ...
Tags: cotton yarn, raw materials, Textile
Top industrial associations of Pakistan have urged Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL), one of the largest integrated gas companies in Pakistan, engaged in the business of transmission and distribution of natural gas, to reverse its ...
Chinese textile firm Shandong Ruyi Group has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Pakistan’s Punjab, under which the firm will be investing US$ 2 billion in the Quaid-e-Azam Apparel Park that is being ...
Tags: Pakistan's Apparel, Ruyi Group, textile firm
The Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) has appreciated the Pakistan Government’s campaign to arrest gas and power theft aimed at checking large-scale pilferage of natural resources and assuring adequate energy supply to the ...
Tags: Textile Exporters, Energy Theft
The Pakistan Second-Hand Clothing Merchants Association (PSCMA) has called on the Government to rollback the 16 percent hike in sales tax on import of second-hand garments. In its recently released 2013-14 Budget, Pakistan ...
Tags: Pakistan, Used Garments, Apparel&Accessories
Pakistan's highest decision making body -- the Economic Coordination Committee -- has failed to take a decision on the award of a multi-billion dollar contract to import 400,000 Mcf/day of LNG over 15 years and has left the matter to the ...
Tags: LNG, Petroleum, Natural Resources
“The Pakistan Government will apply for Least Developed Country (LDC) status, which it would get by 2014”, the Textiles Minister - Makhdoom Shahabuddin recently told the Pakistan National Assembly. This would mean that ...
Pakistan government has ratified the $1.5 billion Iran pipeline project, which will bring around 750,000 Mcf/day of gas to the energy-starved country by January 2015, an official from petroleum ministry said Thursday. The federal ...
Tags: Iran, pipeline project, petroleum
Pakistan textile sector has lost around US$ 1billion worth of export orders during the last few months due to the shortage in supply of power and energy to the textile industries in Pakistan’s Punjab region. Mr. Ahsan Bashir, ...
Pakistan Readymade Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PRGMEA) has urged the Pakistan Government to expedite implementation of 27 international conventions necessary to apply for the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) ...
The textile industry in the Punjab province of Pakistan is losing around US$ 30 million a day and the sector has already suffered a loss of over US$ 270 million as disconnection of electricity and gas supply continues in the region. Mr. ...
Tags: textile industry, Pakistan, Punjab province, APTMA
Textile producers in Faisalabad, called the Manchester of Pakistan, will soon be imparted some skill enhancement training by the Netherlands, Mr. Gajus Scheltema, Netherlands ambassador to Pakistan, has said. The ambassador said a ...
Tags: Textile producers, textile makers, textile market, textile industry
Promotional Road Show on India’s International Textile Machinery Exhibition (ITME) 2012 was held in Pakistani cities of Lahore and Karachi. India ITME, considered to be the second biggest textile technology exhibition in the ...
Tags: Textile Machinery Exhibition, Textile Machinery, textile technology
A delegation of China Textile Machine Manufacturers (CTMTC) met Dr. Mirza Ikhtiar Baig, Federal Advisor on Textile, Government of Pakistan, to discuss prospects of promoting Chinese textile machinery in Pakistan. The delegation headed by ...
Tags: market view, textile machinery