Pakistan: he All Pakistan Cotton Powerlooms Association (APCPA) demands ban on cotton, yarn export
The All Pakistan Cotton Powerlooms Association (APCPA) has strongly demanded that export of cotton and yarn should be banned till overcoming the shortfall of cotton and severe price hike of yarn in the domestic markets of the country. The import duty on polyester yarn should be withdrawn to eliminate the monopoly of…
Egytex News Desk
Source: www.yarnsandfibers.com
The leaders of powerloom sector demanded of the government to immediately ban export of cotton and yarn "in the best interests of the country". Meanwhile, powerlooms owners and their labour staged protest outside their factories in Jhang, Faisalabad, Toba Tek Singh, Kamalia, Sidhar and other parts of Faisalabad Division against shortage of yarn, which is an essential raw material of the powerlooms industry. Protestors said that the unscheduled load shedding of electricity was adding fuel to the fire and unemployed workers were facing difficulties to meeting the domestic life as per routine.
Source: www.yarnsandfibers.com
From the Egytex news archive, first published on 1 November 2010. Figures and names are as reported at the time.
