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The textile industry of Panipat strongly opposing the VAT of 13.25 percent levied on products like bedsheets, cushion covers, teri towels, curtains and other items stating that it would collide the local textile industry which is currently facing tough competition from the Chinese imports.
Roshan Lal Gupta, vice-president of Haryana Veopar Mandal, said that the entrepreneurs had already made an appeal to the state government to take back the new levy as the VAT would ruin local textile industry.
