Cloth merchants' 3-day strike against 5% GST levy to begin from tomorrow

Traders, transporters & courier firms, working on cloth delivery, are expected to join the protest

Wholesale cloth merchants say they’re going on a three-day nationwide strike from Tuesday, in protest at the five per cent Goods and Services Tax (GST) rate levied on job work given by them to the textile industry.

Others in the segments, such as traders, transporters and courier companies exclusively working on cloth delivery are expected to join the protest.

The demand is for exemption from GST for a year and training about tax levies and helpdesk numbers with adequate guidance. 

“None other than yarn manufacturers had been paying taxes so far in the history of the textile industry in India. Most important, the