Related Keywords: Cotton fibre, finished product, handloom, inadequate incentive, India misses clothing cut, Indian apparel and textile sector, inflexible labour law, man made fibre segment, PTA, raw material policy, taxed higher
India misses the clothing cut in consequence of inadequate incentives, excessive emphasis on cotton fibre and handlooms by the government, flip-flop in raw material policy, faulty duty structure in the man-made fibre segment where imports of certain raw materials (like PTA) are taxed higher than those of finished products and inflexible labour laws.
