More trouble for Pakistan's beleaguered textile industry. The Institute for Policy Reforms (IPR) in a report outlining structural factors that have hurt the industry, has said that the textile industry has made inadequate investment in ...
The Pakistani government has constituted a high level committee to bring about a ‘Policy Action Plan’ to redress the impediments confronted by the textile industry in increasing its exports, the media has reported. The ...
Textile mill owners in Pakistan’s Punjab province who had announced a voluntary closure of their mills a few days ago, have now called for a ‘forced closure’ after Eid, the Pakistani media has reported. The millers ...
A delegation of the European Union trade office of generalised system of preferences (GSP) programme reviewed the benefits of GSP plus facility to Pakistan and the progress made so far on implementation of social standards related to labour ...
Tags: GSP Benefits, Textile 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
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
An abnormal rise in imports of cotton yarn from India is posing a threat to the viability of domestic textile industry, All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has said. According to APTMA, an average of 2,500 tonnes of cotton ...
Tags: remedial measures, textile industry, Textile
As on 1 January, 2015, a total of 13.958 million bales of cotton arrived at various ginneries in Pakistan, crossing the previous season’s total cotton production of 13.391 million bales. Cotton arrival increased by 10.16 per cent ...
Tags: Cotton Output, Apparel
The arrival of cotton at ginneries in Pakistan by December 1, 2014, has increased by 9.96 per cent year-on-year, according to the fortnightly report on cotton arrivals, prepared by the Pakistan Cotton Ginners’ Association (PCGA), in ...
The Government of Pakistan will provide complete support to the textile industry and not allow it to shut down, as it is the backbone of the national economy, Punjab's chief minister Shahbaz Sharif said to a delegation of industrialists ...
Tags: gas, textile industry, Textile
Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) and The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) signed an agreement to implement sustainable processes in cotton production in Pakistan. APTMA will be the implementing agency within Pakistan to ...
The Pakistan Textiles Summit, 2014 will be held on 26th and 27th of November, 2014, at Lahore. The summit is being organized by the ministry of textile industry, Pakistan, in collaboration with All Pakistan Textile Mills Association ...
Tags: Textiles Summit, 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 ...
All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) chairman, Muhammad Yasin Siddik, has urged the Government of Pakistan to clear the outstanding tax refunds, as committed by the Federal Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Muhammad Ishaq ...
Tags: Textile, tax refunds, Apparel
The Pakistan textile exporting industry has received a bonanza from the government in the form of a duty drawback on customs duty paid on import of raw materials used in manufacture of textile products meant for export. Through a ...
Tags: Pakistan Textile, Import, Textile