With the intention of expanding trade relations in various sectors, including textiles, a large group of sector-specific business delegation from the Central European country of Hungary will be visiting Pakistan in March 2014, in order to ...
Tags: Textile Trade, Textile
After the successful organization of the Buyer Seller Meet by AEPC in Tel Aviv last year, the Council once again organized Buyer Seller Meet in Tel Aviv, Israel from 25 –26 November, 2013. The BSM was inaugurated by Mr Jaideep ...
Mafatlal Industries Ltd. (MIL), the flagship company of the Arvind Mafatlal Group has declared unaudited financial results for the quarter ended 30th September 2013. The stand alone total income was Rs. 278.72 crore and net profit was Rs. ...
Tags: Mafatlal, flagship company
Reacting to the Second Quarter Review of Monetary Policy Statement 2013-14, Dr A Sakthivel, Chairman AEPC, stated that, “The synergistic efforts of all the stakeholders including Govt. has resulted in the average export growth of ...
Tags: Repo Rate, Chairman AEPC
The sunny picture of the Bangladesh readymade garments sector has changed and the industry is now at crossroads—the time to act is now and cost of inaction could be high, the World Bank has said in its ‘Bangladesh Development ...
Tags: Garment Industry, World Bank
People from rural Gazipur and remote North Bengal, Bangladesh’s poorest region, are now being employed in the readymade garments sector after completing a 3-month skills training programme. The project is a partnership between East ...
The Government of Bangladesh has urged India to remove all tariff and non-tariff barriers on Bangladeshi garments. Although the Indian Government granted duty-free access for Bangladeshi readymade garments in September 2011, the ...
The procedure of Duty Tax Remission for Exports (DTRE) in Pakistan is complicated to the extent that only few of the value-added textile sector companies benefit from the scheme to increase the country’s export volumes. The ...
Tags: Apparel Exports, Textile Exports
Buoyed mainly by rise in demand, particularly from western markets, textile and clothing exports from Pakistan surged 10.96 percent in July 2013 over July 2012, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics data show. According to the data, ...
Tags: Textile Exports
Taiwanese textile companies that attended the just concluded ‘Sourcing at MAGIC’ trade show in Las Vegas earlier this week are expecting orders worth US$ 5 million, the Taiwan Textile Federation (TTF) has said. The Taiwan ...
Bangladesh Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina has urged Brazil to increase its imports of readymade garments and jute products from the country. The request was made during a recent visit of the newly appointed Brazilian Ambassador Wanja ...
Tags: Garment Imports, Prime Minister
The Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PRGMEA) has asked the Nawaz Sharif-led Government to soon appoint the Minister of Commerce. It is surprising that the Prime Minister is yet to name a commerce ...
Tags: Minister of Commerce
The Government of Nepal would soon launch programmes for the support of the garment sector, Finance Minister Shanker Prasad Koirala has said. Addressing the 22nd Annual General Meeting of Garment Association-Nepal (GAN), Mr. Koirala ...
Tags: Nepal Govt, Garment Sector
ARL Apparels Limited, a Chittagong-based readymade garments manufacturing enterprise, will set up a manufacturing unit in Karnaphuli export processing zone (EPZ), located at about 10-km distance from Chittagong. As per the agreement ...
Tags: Apparel Firm, Apparel
The government has announced increase in the rate of interest subvention from 2% to 3% to the exporters belonging to various sectors. It has been mentioned that all pending claims would also be cleared immediately. Welcoming the decision, ...