Sports goods manufacturers on Monday demanded excise duty waiver on their products on the pattern of apparel industry, which has been granted exemption in the recent budget.“The government has already granted excise duty exemption to apparel industry in the recent budget foregoing huge amount of revenue and it is need of the hour that we must strongly put our case for exemption,” a veteran leader of sports goods manufacturers of the city, Ramesh Chander Kohli told Hindustan Times. The sport

Workers in the picketline at E-Garment Union members from E-garment factory beaten by thugs Police detained five activists from the Clean Clothes Campaign last Tuesday who were meeting workers at a protest outside a clothing factory near Phnom Penh. The workers were on strike because 41 workers had been illegally dismissed for unionizing. While striking the workers have faced police brutality and seven have been beaten by company affiliated thugs using a stick with nails in it. Worker

China needs to introduce the relevant policies to subsidize and support the growth of the garment industry, a deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC) said Wednesday. Gao Dekang, who is also the chairman of Bosideng Group, China's largest maker and distributor of down clothing, made the remarks during an exclusive interview to Xinhuanet. "Since the reform and opening up, China has witnessed a rapid growth in economic progress and workers' salaries... This heightens the cost of the pr

The Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) has asked the Centre to allow duty-free import of yarn like cotton. Observing that the recent increase in cotton and yarn prices have put additional burden on the industry, AEPC Chairman A. Sakthivel said in a statement: “Garment is a critical sector in terms of 11.22 million workers employed in this sector.’’ “I request the Government to allow duty-free import of yarn, as they have allowed for import of cotton for yarn manufacturers,” he said. He f

Government today said it is not considering imposing ban on imports of used clothes. Under the Customs Tariff Act 2012-13, worn clothing and other worn articles attracts a standard rate of import duty of 10 per cent, Minister of State for Textile Panabaaka Lakshmi said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. She said import duty protects domestic industry from losses. "Government has not considered imposing a ban on import of worn clothes," she said. In a separate reply, she said textile ex

Textile traders in Andhra Pradesh have renewed their demand with the government to withdraw the five per cent VAT levied on them. They say the trade is largely unorganised and this is causing a burden to them. According to Santosh Chokhani, vice president, Andhra Pradesh Federation of Textile Associations, no other state has VAT on textiles. He said the small entrepreneurs are badly hit. This apart, the Andhra Pradesh government has brought the textiles under the ‘sensitive commodities’ with ef

With reference to reports appearing in sections of the Bangladeshi media, the Indian High Commission in a statement Monday said that no new Countervailing Duty (CVD) has been imposed in the Indian Union Budget 2013-14 on Ready Made Garment (RMG) imports into India. The CVD of 12.36 per cent which existed on RMG imports in 2012-13 continues without any change. India has granted duty-free, quota-free access to 46 textile tariff lines of greatest sensitivity to Bangladesh which was notified on Se

The government, which is going to complete its five-year tenure on March 16, failed to formulate a broad-based agriculture-cotton policy. Pakistan does not has a broad based agriculture policy to address various issues creating hurdles in the progress and development of agriculture sector, which play a key role in the country's economy by contributing 21 percent to the GDP. Pakistan is the fourth largest cotton producer in the world but contributes only two percent to global cotton trade due t

The National Strategic Textiles (Enatex) announced in 2012 that the exports are expected to reach 200 million in Bolivian exports, according to the production manager Jaime Blandon. The executive said that in early December last year were 14 million Bolivian exports to about 3 million in sales in the domestic market. Colombian national executive said that since the state administration of the three floors of what was American Textile Company (Ametex) Iberkleid Marcos has not fired any of the 1

Garment industry employs up to 300,000 women in Kyrgyzstan. The information was voiced at a parliamentary session. According to the deputy Roza Aknazarova, annual turnover of garment manufacturers amounts to several billion soms. “Basically, this sector employs women. But the development of light industry is slowed down by the total system of tax collection. Once the sewing workshop increases, so does the tax rate. And customs payments are inadequate as well. Garment workers are forced to oper