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.
