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Pakistan Textile Industry in Trouble
Apr 30, 2019More 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 ...
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Pak Trying to Increase Value-Added Textile Exports
Apr 30, 2019Pakistan's Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan has claimed that his government is making some serious and well-planned efforts to increase value-addition in the textile sector to attract more shares in the regional and international ...
Tags: textile sector, Textile Exports
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Textile Ministry Pitches for Lowest GST Slab
Aug 28, 2015The textiles ministry is pushing for keeping the industry in the lowest slab of the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) and has pitched a proposal to the Finance Minister, according to media reports. "GST is important, and we are trying ...
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Pakistan's Value Added Sector Opposes Yarn Import Duty
Aug 21, 2015Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PHMA) has rejected the government's plan to impose import duty on cotton yarn saying it would pose negative impact on the value-added textile sector, the Pakistani media has ...
Tags: Yarn Import Duty, cotton yarn
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Lahore to Host International Textile Asia Exhibition
Aug 19, 2015The 14th International Textile Asia Exhibition will be held for the first time in Lahore, Pakistan from August 29 to 31, the Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers & Exporters Association (PRGMEA) has announced. PRGMEA is hosting the ...
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Overall Orders for Italian Textile Machinery Recorded a 15% Increase in Q2,2015
Aug 3, 2015For the second quarter of 2015, overall orders for Italian textile machinery recorded a 15 per cent increase over the same period of last year. An Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers (ACIMIT) press release informed that ...
Tags: Textile Machinery, Textile
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Textile Industry in Taiwan to Mandatorily Take Energy Conservation Measures
Jul 21, 2015Beginning next year, the textile industry in Taiwan will have to mandatorily take energy conservation measures, as per a directive of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), according to local media reports. In its effort to improve ...
Tags: textile manufacture, energy saving, MOEA, textile
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Vietnam's Textile and Garment Sector Continues to Be a Magnet for FDI
Jul 21, 2015Vietnam’s textile and garment sector continues to be a magnet for FDI. While FDI in Vietnam has fallen significantly in the first six months of 2015, it rose sharply in the textile and garment sector, according to the country’s ...
Tags: textile industry, FDI, garment
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A Mapping of Sustainable Textile Initiatives by Norden
Jul 21, 2015A mapping of sustainable textile initiatives by Norden – a regional partnership of Nordic countries – shows that many different perspectives and stakeholders are now working with environmental impacts associated with textile ...
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Pakistani Government Has Constituted a High Level Committee
Jul 20, 2015The 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 ...
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Weaving Machinery and Accessories Expo Held in Erode in Tamil Nadu Generated Business
Jul 17, 2015The three-day International Textiles, Weaving Machinery and Accessories Expo held in Erode in Tamil Nadu generated business of over Rs 200 crore, according to media reports. In a press release, M A Rayappan, chairman of Hi-Tech ...
Tags: International Textiles, textile manufcture, weaving machinery
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Ind-Ra Has Maintained an Overall Stable Outlook for The Cotton Textile Sector for Fy16
Jul 10, 2015Credit rating agency India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) has maintained an overall stable outlook for the cotton textile sector for FY16. This is led by stable spinning margins in the cotton yarn segment, range-bound cotton prices and ...
Tags: textile manufacture, garment manufacture, cotton textile
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Textile Mill Had Announced a Voluntary Closure of Their Mills a Few Days Ago
Jul 7, 2015Textile 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 ...
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JICA and The Pakistani Textile Ministry Held a Meeting on July 2 in Islamabad
Jul 6, 2015The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Pakistani textile ministry held a meeting on July 2 in Islamabad to work out parameters for the project of “Skill Development and Market Diversification” (PSDMD) for the ...
Tags: Japan International Cooperation Agency, Textile Sector
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Textile Printing Industry in The UAE Generating Approximately $17.5 Billion Annually
Jul 6, 2015Textile printing industry in the UAE is set to gather momentum with the country now standing as the world's fourth largest trading centre of textiles, generating approximately $17.5 billion annually, the West Asian media has reported . ...
