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An e-commerce app, in the present day, is as good as a whole shopping mall fitted in your pocket. Thanks to the access to faster and cheaper internet coupled with larger and crisper mobile screens, e-commerce platforms are supporting be-spoke and tailor-made shopping effortlessly, making shopping fun.

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Indian Texpreneurs Federation (ITF) has appealed to all brands and retail chains operating in India to source their requirements from within the country instead of importing.

ITF’s appeal comes in the wake of a huge jump in import of readymade garments from Bangladesh.

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India and Chile had signed an agreement on expansion of India-Chile Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) on September 6, 2016 which be be implemented from May 16, 2017, facilitating exporters of both sides to take the advantage of tariff concessions as per the expanded PTA immediately which covers around 96 percent of bilateral trade.

Chile is the fourth largest trading partner of India in LAC region after Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina.

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The export entitlement quota for readymade garments & knitwear, yarn and fabrics & made-ups to the US, Canada and European Union extended for one year with effect from 1 January, 2017.

As per a notification issued by Textiles Ministry, it states that the Union Government decides to extend the operation of the residuary provisions of yarn, fabrics & made-ups export entitlement (quota) policy for a further one year with effect from 1 January, 2017,

Similarly, it also extended the operation of the residuary provisions of garments and knitwear.

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Pakistan eyeing to increase annual exports to India to $1 billion within a year, as made-up textiles products and readymade garments have great potential to make their way to Indian markets, said Federal Minister for Commerce Khurram Dastagir Khan at a meeting of the Pak-India Business Council her of Tuesday.

The delegation was headed by Yawar Ali Shah who briefed the minister on their recent visit to India and outcome of the meetings held with the country’s business and trade stakeholders.

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Pakistan and Korea, having bilateral trade and diplomatic relations for over three decades, are very much ambitious to sign Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to enhance investment and trade volume.

However it will take years to attain the objective, as both the countries have to examine minutely the FTA proposal exchanged by them July this year. Pakistan’s Commerce Minister had visited Republic of Korea in July to discuss bilateral trade and possibilities of FTA.

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A delegation of the Istanbul Textile and Apparel Exporter Associations (ITKIB) headed by Chairman of the Istanbul Textile and Raw material Exporters’ Association Ismail Gulle along with four members of the governing councils and representatives of the ITKIB secretariat will visit Belarus on 28 September to 1 October.

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Pakistan’s textile exports after witnessing downward trend for last several months has seen double digit growth of 11.24 percent in August 2015 as per data of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) released on Monday. The unprecedented growth was mainly driven by substantial increase in export proceeds of raw cotton, cotton cloth, yarn, knitwear, bed wear, towels and readymade garments.

Exports of textile and clothing recorded at $1.02 billion in the previous month as against $889 million of a year ago.

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Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PRGMEA) and the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA), value added textile industry association of Pakistan after holding a series of meetings has decided to opposed a proposal of banning the import of textile raw materials, saying the local textile industry is unable to produce these raw materials.

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India’s textile exports stood at 41.4 billion, shortfall of 3.6bn from the target set of 45 billion for 2014-15. There was a small increase in the overseas sales of handicrafts (17 percent), carpets (15 percent), readymade garments (12 percent), silk (13 percent), and wool and woolen textiles (18 percent), said an official statement.

For the current fiscal, Textiles Ministry has set an exports target of USD 47.5 billion, Textiles Secretary S K Panda said while addressing a press conference.