Pakistan exported $38 million worth of denim clothing to the United States in July, 2021. This figure represents 140% growth over July, 2020. Mexico’s denim exports grew 58% while those of Bangladesh grew 24% in this period, according to the US Office of Textiles and Apparel. Among the top Asian suppliers, Pakistan’s exports to US […]
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Most clothes in Pakistan are tailor-made. It is a strange phenomena of the third-world that a majority of people that would be considered not well off wear bespoke clothing. The major reason for this is cheap labour. Skilled tailors are everywhere and they do not ask for the kind of money that their skilled
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s textile exports have reached new heights after they reached Rs1.55 billion in January 2022, the highest ever exports from the sector in a month, ARY NEWS reported. The details were shared by Senator Faisal Javed Khan, a close confidante of Prime Minister Imran Khan, from his Twitter handle. While sharing a graph of
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LAHORE: Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PHMA) appreciating the approval of the new Textile & Apparel Policy 2020-25, has called for speedy implementation of it, as it is vital for new investment and marketing plan in the major export-oriented sector. PHMA Central Chairman Shahzad Azam Khan expressed the hope that the $42 billion export
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Net Zero Pakistan, the country’s drive towards net zero carbon emissions in industry – was intended to be cross-sector but so far 95 per cent of the signatories come from the textiles sector. Saleha Asif, CEO of the Pakistan Textile Council, argues that the textiles sector is a natural leader for the national initiative by
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Pakistan’ s textile industry has set a target a increase textile exports to $20 billion in the next few years. Its textile exports rose by 37 per cent to $1.69 billion in February 2022, as against $1.23 billion in February 2021, reveals All Pakistan Textile Mills Association. The exports of textile commodities surged by 24.73
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FAISALABAD: State Minister for Finance Rana Muhammad Afzal Khan on Monday said that gas prices would be further decreased for textile industry to reduce cost of production to maximum extent. Addressing a meeting at All Pakistan Textile Processing Mills Association (APTPMA) here, the state minister said the government had planned to provide electricity at rate
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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government is likely to announce a Rs10-billion research development fund in an effort to boost cotton production next season as the harvest remains unimpressive for the past few years. Talking to The Express Tribune, a senior government official disclosed that a high-level meeting on Wednesday tried to prepare a plan for enhancing
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Pakistan’s exports to the 28-member European Union (EU) posted a growth of nearly 6% in January-September 2017 on a year-on-year basis. This shows that the Generalised System of Preferences-Plus (GSP+) scheme largely failed to boost exports to the EU. Total export proceeds to these countries amounted to €5.07bn during the period under review against €4.79bn a
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ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Finance, Rana Muhammad Afzal Khan invited Japan to assist Pakistan to promote its textile through Preferential Trade Agreements (PTA). During a meeting with Ambassador of Japan, Takashi Kurai, who called on him, Rana said Pakistan highly values its relationship with Japan, a press statement said. He hoped that the economic
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