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Pakistan textile exports in the first eight months of the current fiscal year of 2016/17 declined by 1.74 percent to $8.214 billion as improvement in exports from value-added sector arrested a major revenue setback during this period, as per official data.

According to Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), textile exports fetched $8.359 billion for the country during the corresponding period of the past fiscal year.

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The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has announced a weekly sit-in on every Tuesday outside the APTMA Punjab office from December 6, until the industry demands for the textile package are not considered by the government. As the textile package which help bring the industry out of crisis and also to solve the issue of disparity of gas and electricity prices between Punjab and other provinces.