Lahore (Nut Desk) Senior Vice Chairman of the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Kamran Arshad has pointed out that Pakistan would be a strong destination for exports of readymade garments (RMG) and finished products soon a global recovery takes place in the future.
According to him, the Customs department of the country should be ready for this change and speed up the removal of irritants in the Export Facilitation Scheme (EFS). He has also urged the Customs officials to enhance their interaction with the premier association of the textile industry to understand the dimensions of prevailing issues with regard to the EFS.
The SVP said news investments of $5 billion has already been made in the textile sector which has no potential to give exponential growth to the textile exports provided a business friendly environment continues in the country. He said the APTMA members are planning to set up 100 RMG manufacturing units ahead.
He said the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has already shown its strength in ironing out the export-relating issues and more is needed to be done on war footing basis.
He has appreciated the Board for carrying out up-gradation of the facility of Pakistan Single Window, and added that the upcoming launch of Port Community System and Trade Information Portal would be a welcoming development towards easing out RMG exports from Pakistan.
Kamran has also stressed on the resolution of issues relating to the indirect exporters.
Social media: “Customs department of the country should be ready for this change and speed up the removal of irritants in the Export Facilitation Scheme (EFS). The Customs officials to enhance their interaction with the premier association of the textile industry to understand the dimensions of prevailing issues with regard to the EFS,” SVP APTMA.
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