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Silver lining: Exports of textiles to US on the rise

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

M Allirajan, TNN, May 18, 2010, 12.21am IST

COIMBATORE: After declining for several months because of the global financial meltdown, textile exports to the US are finally back on track, recording growth in February and March. Textile and apparel exports to the US, which account for more than a quarter of shipments made by the industry, rose 8.3% year-on-year (y-o-y) in March to $487.8 million. Exports increased 7.7% y-o-y to $443.5 million in February, data with the office of textiles and apparel, US Department of Commerce shows.

Apparel exports to the US, however, posted a modest 2.8% growth in March to $315.1 million. “Demand has started to pick up in the US. The bookings are quite reasonable and (trade) enquiries have also been quite good,” says Premal Udani, chairman, Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC).

“We are seeing a real improvement across all segments of the industry. Orders are coming in and after nearly two years of slowdown we are witnessing a recovery,” says P Nataraj, managing director, KPR Mill. “The recovery is slowly taking shape in both domestic and international markets.” “This year (fiscal 2011) would definitely be better,” says A Sakthivel, president, Tirupur Exporters’ Association (TEA).

Garment exports to the EU, the largest market bloc for Indian markets, however, continues to remain weak. “Europe (demand) is somewhat weak because of the uncertainty faced by some countries (in the region),” says Udani.

“Orders to EU countries have been quite weak but the US has been much better,” says an exporter. Apparel exports to the EU are estimated to have come down by 16.8% to $4.5 billion in fiscal 2010.

While the industry is seeing a silver lining, some officials advise caution. Though inquiries are good, exporters are finding it difficult to convert them into orders as they have been adversely hit by rising raw material prices and the rupee appreciation, says Sakthivel.

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Dhaka textile firms lack skilled hands

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

PALPA: The cottage industries in Palpa are facing a shortage of workers after the youths from the district have been lured towards foreign employment. This situation has arisen after increasing number of youths from the district started going for foreign employment due to the low wages and irregular pay at home.

The traditional Dhaka textile industries, a hallmark of Palpa district, have been hit hard by shortage of skilled workers.

The Karki Dhaka Udhyog located in the district headquarters Tansen is facing shortage of manpower at present. This Dhaka textile factory needs approximately 60 skilled and semi-skilled workers. There are only 25 workers at present.

Proprietors of Dhaka textile industries in Palpa district say they are facing shortage of skilled human resources as an increasing number of youths started going abroad for work or those already employed at their factories left their jobs to go on foreign employment. Although more than 400

industries, including the Dhaka textile industries, have been registered in Palpa district, not even 50 per cent of them are in operation due to the shortage of skilled workers, an officer at the District Cottage and Small Industries Office said.

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Nepali products get zero-tariff in Chinese market

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

Himalayan News Service
KATHMANDU: Nepal got zero-tariff for 4,721 products in Chinese market.

Purusottam Ojha, secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Supplies (MoCS) and Qui Guohong, Chinese Ambassador to Nepal today signed an agreement on Letter of Exchange (LoE) regarding zero-tariff on 4,721 Nepali products to Chinese market.

Before the agreement Nepali exportable products were charged 10 per cent to 35 per cent customs duty.

“The agreement on LoE will help decrease trade deficit with China,” OJha said adding that amongst 4,721 products, 361 products will get direct benefit. “The most essential products like carpet, leather, coffee, Juice and silverware will get zero-tariff in the Chinese market,” he added.

Earlier, China has announced top provide zero-tariff to Least Developed Countries (LDCs) gradually. “Tariff reduction has been a key issue in global trade,” the envoy said adding that China is committed to WTO. “China is against the trade protectionism as it hurts the global trade,” he added.

During the year 2009 bilateral trade registered $414 million. The trade balance is in favour of China. “This agreement will help Nepal balance the trade deficit,” Guohong said.

Requesting to take part in the trade expos — that are going to be held in China — he also urged the entrepreneurs to take advantage from the concession.

Welcoming the Chinese gesture, president of Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI) and CA member Binod Chaudhary asked China to open up more. “We are hopeful that China will gradually provide zero-tariff to 90 per cent goods,” he said. “Nepal also looks forward to Mutual Investment Agreement with China,” Chaudhary added.

Supporting the envoy on development of Export Promotion Zone (EPZ) at Panchkhal, he also requested China to help in it.

The major Nepali exportable products to China are mushroom, orange, cherry, coffee, carpet, garment, beer, incense-sticks, match sticks, apple, tomato, onion, potato, strawberry, honey, cauliflower, brocauli, biscuit, grapes, soap, shampoo, mineral water, textile cotton clothes, wool, brass, fruit juice, leather products, marble, paints, ceramics, jewellery, copper wire, and cable which has been granted free customs.

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Nigeria-India trade volume hits $10 billion

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

BY NGOZI SAMS

The trade relationship between Nigeria and India has been robust and relatively balanced, says Mahesh Sachdev, the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, when he led a delegation of some Indian businessmen to visit Jibril Martins-Kuye, the minister of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday.

“India is Nigeria’s second largest trading partner with the total volume of trade according to our statistics nearly $10.3 billion,” he said. “On the industrial front, Indian companies in Nigeria are also second largest in terms of employment of Nigerians.

The first is federal government in terms of employment while the second is Indian community and Indian-based companies taken together today contribute employment of Nigerian people. Among the companies where India has the top position are steel, power sector and pharmaceuticals.”

Mr. Sachdev said this is significant as there are just about 30,000 Indians in Nigeria, less than 1.5 per cent of the total Nigeria population. India is therefore seeking more ways to boost bilateral and financial ties with Nigeria. He was however silent on the usual accusation of injustice against the Indian employers by most Nigerian employees.

“Initially the visit was to four countries but keeping in view our close ties with Nigeria and the fact that Nigeria’s textile industry deals with the Indian community, it was decided that we include Nigeria in the list,” he said. “We are here to showcase our expertise and offer our experience on the very important task to bring Nigeria’s once mighty textile industry and cotton growing population.”

Ravid Vanger, the leader of the delegation and deputy permanent representative of India at the World Trade Organisation, added that India and Nigeria share long commercial ties.

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Eurozone crisis may hit exports to EU: Fin Secy

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

SME Times News Bureau
The Eurozone debt crisis may have some adverse short-term impact on Indian exports to the European Union, said Finance Secretary, Ashok Chawla on Monday.

Inaugurating ASSOCHAM organized Conference on Banking and Financial Regulators in New Delhi, Chawla admitted that India’s exports in short term to the EU and it’s market could face some problem due to it’s ongoing financial crisis.

Chawla, however, added that the financial turmoil will have “minimum effect” on India’s exports in current fiscal.

“In the long run, however, the impact would be negligible as India has faced bigger crisis of larger volumes without letting it’s economy shrink beyond a point and the current crisis of Europe are going to be a temporary affair,” he said.

“Therefore, there is no need to worry on this front,” assured the Finance Secretary.

On the same day, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma told reporters at the sidelines of a conference in the national capital that India has not seen any significant adverse impact from the European debt crisis.

A crisis of confidence in Europe has been triggered by a potential debt default by Greece. The European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have announced a $1 trillion emergency financial aid package, which is expected to stabilise world financial markets and curb speculative attacks on the Euro.

With the euro gaining USD 1.30 in the late European morning trading on Monday after assurances by European leaders to save the currency from falling apart, Indian firm who export a bulk of their products to the EU heaved a sigh of relief. In many export segments like garments, 50-70 percent of the invoicing is done in euro.

Chawla went on adding that domestic capital market would also absorb the off shoot of crisis, arisen in European markets in the sense that FIIs investments into it would continue and the flight of their capital is unlikely to other destinations.

The domestic economy, according to the Finance Secretary would move on to double digit growth rate but the challenge for policy maker will remain for this growth to be made inclusive.

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Brandix Apparel City to attract Rs 5400 Cr

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

BS Reporter / Chennai/ Visakhapatnam May 04, 2010, 0:37 IST

CM Rosaiah inaugurates the park in AP Special Economic Zone

Andhra Pradesh chief minister K Rosaiah on Monday inaugurated the Brandix India Apparel City (BIAC) located in the Andhra Pradesh Special Economic Zone here.

The state government has allotted 1,000 acres of land for the project while the Centre has provided Rs 36 crore under the Union textile policy.

Speaking on the occasion, Rosaiah asked BIAC, promoted by Sri Lanka-based Brandix group, to fulfil its promise of providing employment to 60,000 people at the earliest.

He said the government was providing training to youth under Rajiv Udhyogsree to make skilled manpower available and had, so far, trained 1 million youth.

BIAC would have 20 apparel manufacturing plants, three fabric mills, eight accessories factories and one finishing plant. The apparel city would attract an investment of $1.2 billion (around Rs 5,400 crore), said Brandix group chief executive officer Ashroff Omar.

While two manufacturing units — Brandix Apparel India and Ocean India (US) — have already commenced exports, four others are at different stages of completion. These six companies, on completion, would cumulatively invest about $70 million (Rs 315 crore) for factory infrastructure development, he said.

Fabric companies like Fountain Set Holdings of Hong Kong, Pioneer Elastic India Quantum Clothing Indi (UK), DEB Fashion India and Seeds Intimate Apparel India have come forward to set up joint ventures in the BIAC.

Visakhapatnam would attract investments worth about Rs 68,000 crore over the next five years and see 71,000 new jobs being created. During the last three years, Vizag district attracted Rs 17,000 crore in different sectors, said K Lakshmi Narayana, major industries minister.

The Centre has sanctioned six integrated textile parks for Andhra Pradesh, including in Visakhapatnam, said Panabaaka Lakshmi, Union minister of state for textiles, adding this was the biggest textile park in Southeast Asia. “This year, the textile Budget is Rs 4,500 crore. The government has allotted Rs 397 crore to promote the integrated textile parks in the country,” she said.

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Mills requesting restoration of duty drawback

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

An appeal for reconsidering the withdrawal of duty drawback on exports of cotton yarn has been submitted by textile mills to the Union Government. A notification has been issued by the government in this regard on 29th April 2010.
V.S Velayutham, Chairman, Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council explained in a release that withdrawal of duty drawback was basically a timely tested scheme initiated for reimbursing the incidence of excise and customs duties levied at the product’s input stages.

Agreement of WTO on countervailing measures and subsidies permitted “remission or exemption of prior stage cumulative indirect import charges and taxes levied over inputs which are used for the development of export products”

Mr. Velayutham told that the government had already handled a blow to trade of exports and had also moved against their own principle of goods exporting without taxes.

J. Thulasidharan, Chairman of Southern India Mills Association explained that duty drawback was actually not an incentive.

It was simply a duties refund and was levied on most export commodities. Prices of yarn were determined by market experts depending upon demand and supply and any kind of moves made for getting artificial control over the intermediary products definitely would bring an effect on the functioning of the whole textile value chain.

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Govt. taking steps for domestic availability of cotton, yarn

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

SME Times News Bureau | 29 Apr, 2010
The government has initiated different measures to ensure adequate domestic availability of yarn and raw cotton, Minister of State for Textiles, Panabaaka Lakshmi said on Wednesday in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.

In a bid to ensure yarn availability for the domestic textile industry, the government has initiated a range measures including registration of yarn exports, removal of DEPB incentive on yarn exports and test check of fulfilling the hank yarn obligations to ensure adequate yarn supply to handloom weavers, said Lakshmi answering a question raised by T.T.V.Dhinakaran in the Rajya Sabha.

She further stated that Textiles Ministry has received a number of representations from garment and handloom sector regarding supply line distortions and steep increases in yarn prices.

Answering to another question, the minister added that the government has also taken a slew of measures to ensure adequate domestic availability of raw cotton, including imposition of export duty on raw cotton and cotton waste, suspension of Registration of Cotton Exports to ensure a carry forward stock of 50 lakh bales from the cotton season 2009-10.

The government has also intensified monitoring of the cotton situation through the Cotton Advisory Board, Lakshmi said.

An abrupt and abnormal increase in prices of the cotton yarn has hit the domestic textile industry. The government has decided to halt cotton exports from April 19 to ensure adequate availability of raw cotton for the domestic industry.

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RPT-OUTLOOK-India cotton seen down on export ban

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:27am IST

MUMBAI, April 26 (Reuters) – India’s cotton prices may fall sharply after India stopped exports of the commodity last week, analysts and traders said.

India has stopped cotton exports to control soaring local prices, tightening global supplies and raising prospects of a further rise in New York futures that rose to a two-year high last month.

Spot prices of most popular variety of cotton have come down by 3 percent since the ban imposed last Tuesday. The prices had risen upto 54 percent compared with the same period last year.

The Indian government stopped registering new contracts for exports from April 19 after a panel of ministers discussed steps to arrest the sharp rise in local cotton prices, an official statement said.

This month, the chairman of the government’s Cotton Advisory Board said India’s cotton exports in the year to September 2010 were likely to more than double to 8 million bales on strong demand from China and Bangladesh.

Out of 8.5 million bales of cotton registered with the authorities for exports, 6.01 million bales had already been shipped out, a senior official in the textile ministry told Reuters last week.

“Global prices will rise …but domestically prices may come down,” said Vandana Bharti, head of research at SMC Comrade.

However, the textile industry, which is the primary user of the commodity, believes prices may not come down significantly as already large amount have been exported.

“It’s too late …the cost of production has been very high for large part of the year…now there is not much stock left anyway,” said an official with a textile industry association.

(Editing by Sourav Mishra; Editing by Prem Udayabhanu)

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Govt willing to withdraw duty sops levied on cotton yarn exports

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Four percent incentives levied on exports of cotton yarn with the aim of maintaining their prices within the domestic market might be withdraw soon by the government very soon.

“Benefit of four percent duty provided to the exporters of yarn under the scheme named Duty Drawback might be withdrawn very soon,” told sources, further telling that the government was willing towards imposing export duty over the cotton yarn.

On 21st April, another scheme of export sop on yarn called as DEPB, Duty Entitlement Pass Book was withdrawn.

Alongside, the exporters of yarn are being urged to register their textile dispatches which the Commissioner of Textile.

Incentives can be available by exporters either under Duty Drawback Scheme or DEPB.

On 6th April, Finance Minister discussed and expressed ways of checking yarn and cotton prices in an inter-ministerial meeting.

Prices of cotton yarn have been raised by more than 30per cent during the previous three months time.

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