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Related Keywords: APTMA, exemption from additional anti dumping duty, high value added textiles, import of speciality polyester fibre, limiting textile industry from product and market diversification, not produced domestically, Polyster staple fibre, produced by PSF producers in China, specialty polyesters used for the production of yarns, Thailand and Japan

Pakistan only produces normal (generic) polyester staple fibre of semi dull and bright type in deniers of 0.8-1.4 according to All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA), hence wants exemption from additional anti-dumping duty on the import of specialty polyester fibre which is not being produced domestically as additional duty is limiting the textile industry from product and market diversification.

Related Keywords: absence of liquidity flow, APTMA, decrease in textile exports, entire textile chain, Gas Infrastructure Development Cess, high cost of doing business, indicate decrease in foreign exchange earning of the country, market share, textile industry already burdened, to regain competitive edge, urge government to completely remove GIDC

All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has urged the government to completely remove the Gas Infrastructure Development Cess (GIDC) from the entire textile chain to enable it to regain its competitive edge and market share.

Tariq Saud Chairman APTMA in view of declining oil prices and natural gas prices in the international market there is no justification for imposition of GIDC on textile industry which is already burdened and has become uncompetitive vis-à-vis to their regional competitors in the absence of liquidity flow and high cost of doing business.

Related Keywords: APTMA, demand imposing fifteen percent regulatory duty, direct and indirect workforce, domestic consumption, emergent meeting of member mills, import of MMF, particularly the polyester viscose yarn, polyester cotton yarn and pure polyester yarn, PSF, PTA, review import statistics of MMF yarn, serious threat for survival of spindles

All Pakistan Textile Mills Association Chairman Tariq Saud at an emergent meeting of the member mills held at the Punjab office of the Association to review the import statistics of the Man Made Fiber yarn for domestic consumption demanded of imposing 15 percent Regulatory Duty on the import of Man-made fibers, as it increased by four times in last four years and likely to reach to 57000 tones per annum by the end of 2015-16.

Related Keywords: APTMA, better quality from the current crop, few buying interest from spinners domestic cotton market, KCA, Pakistan cotton market, spot rate, unsold quantity of cotton, witnessed slow trading activity

The Pakistan cotton market on Thursday witnessed slow trading activity with few buying interest on the part of the spinners. The domestic cotton market is passing through a lackluster phase, moreover from the remaining 550,000 bales (155 kgs) of unsold quantity of cotton barely about 150,000 bales may be of better quality from the current crop (August 2015/July 2016), mills are hardly making any purchases.

Related Keywords: APTMA, GSP Plus status, Quaid-e-Azam Apparel Park, see availability of RLNG, substantial drop in energy cost, to invest heaving on setting denim units, Top three textile groups from Pakistan, value added textile industry

Pakistan's top three textile groups seeing the availability of Re-gasified Liquid Natural Gas (RLNG) from the month of March onward have invested heavily on setting up denim units. Fresh investment has started holding ground in the value added textile industry with a substantial drop in energy cost, which is likely to reduce further in next three months.

Related Keywords: affordabililty and viability, affordable price, after six year, APTMA, arrival of first liquefied natural gas, compete regionally, get twenty four hours gas supply, problem of disparity, Punjab textile industry, resolved to large extent, shipment from Qatar in Pakistan, Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited, supply of RLNG

The Punjab textile industry’s problem of disparity, affordability and viability has been resolved to a large extent with the supply of RLNG, which the industry was facing for the last six years, said APTMA former chairman and patron-in-chief Gohar Ejaz.

The Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited , after the arrival of first liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipment from Qatar in Pakistan, has announced to start supplying gas to the textile industry in Punjab for 24 hours after a long period of about six years.

Related Keywords: APTMA, Bangladesh and Turkey, fine counts of cotton yarn from India, imposition of RD not helped in dampening cheap imports, increase regulatroy duty to twenty percent, National Tariff Commission, Pakistan is the fourth largest importer of Indian yarn after China, save export oriented textile industry of Pakistan, strongly demanded, total closure

The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) in order to save the export oriented textile industry of Pakistan from total closure, has strongly demanded the government to increase the regulatory duty on fine counts of cotton yarn especially from India to 20 percent as the imposition of regulatory duty has not helped in dampening the cheap imports of Indian yarns.

Related Keywords: APTMA, FIEDMC, import duty free machinery, in the urban areas of Faisalabad, install in mega industrial estate, scattered textile units, shift textile processing units, signed landmark MoU, Special Economic Zone, to well planned state of the art industrial estate

Faisalabad Industrial Estate Development and Management Company (FIEDMC) has signed a landmark Memorandum of Undertaking (MoU) with All Pakistan Textile Processing Mills Association (APTPMA) to shift the textile processing units to a well planned and state-of-the-art M-3 Industrial Estate.

Related Keywords: affect textile export activities, APTMA, demand immediate tax holiday, entire textile value chain, import of cotton, off set decline in textile exports, Pakistan cotton crop for the year, PCGA, sharp reduction in output, textile manufacturers, trading partners, USDA, withdraw levy on cotton import

Pakistan cotton crop for the year 2015/16 due to its sharp reduction in output, textile manufacturers are anticipate serious affects on export activities for which they demand for an immediate tax holiday on import of cotton, that might off-set decline in the textile exports.

Related Keywords: APTMA, custom duty on cotton, demands five percent rebate, demands wave off customs dutry, importers pay three percent, impose ten percent duty on import of artificial yarn and clothes, increase government finance, low cotton production, on cotton imports, on export of textile products, Textile Mills Association

All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) in light of low cotton production has put forth the demands before the government to wave off customs duty on cotton imports and has also demanded a five percent rebate on export of textile products.

Currently the importers are paying three percent customs duty on cotton.

The textile mills association Chairman Tariq Saud said that at least 110 factories are shut at the time.