Indian home textile exporters are set to register robust performance during FY2022
Home textile exporters are set to clock a 20-25 per cent growth in 2021-22 with healthy margins, according to a report.
Sharp surge in demand for home improvement products; strong festive demand seen this year backed by favourable vaccination coverage across key markets
Garment exporters will continue to get a rebate on central and state taxes on their outward shipments as the government on Wednesday approved extension of RoSCTL scheme till March 2024.
The textile town in Tamil Nadu exports products worth about Rs 27,000 crore
Up to Rs 5,000 crore likely as big brands look to scale up manufacturing in the country
The sharp decline has impacted entire value chain of cotton farmers, ginners, spilling mills, fabric makers and textile and apparel producers
The sector was trying to emerge from the aftereffects of the implementation of GST when the pandemic struck
Write to PM Modi, Finance Minister to express their woes; Tirupur has about 500,000 direct and indirect employees
While the Covid-19 pandemic has completely halted production and new orders, exporters say that payments have also been delayed for the shipments sent before the lockdown.
Citing an example of man-made textiles, he said that the govt is putting attention as over the years, India always focused on cotton textiles, whereas the world has moved on to man-made textiles.
India has become competitive in both polyester yarn and fabric businesses in the last couple of quarters
The government has removed the benefit of 4 per cent Merchandise Exports from India Scheme on exports of made ups and garments with retrospective effect, that is, from March 7, 2019
UK retailer MotherCare files for bankruptcy--the latest international company to hurt Tirupur's fortunes.
"As the matter is still under consideration of the PM Office and we are hopeful that we will get a positive response at the earliest," HEWA Director Anant Srivastava told PTI
Appoints a group of experts in WTO matters; report to be submitted by next week
Apparel exports rose in October after more than a year of sustained fall
This is major relief for the textile industry, said Ujwal Lahoti
India's textile exports are likely to decline by 10-12 per cent this financial year, says Ashok Rajani, chairman, Apparel Export Promotion Council.He points to less of tax exemptions for exporters, the rupee's rise against the dollar and shifting of orders to competing countries.Readymade garment export declined 41 per cent in October to Rs 5,398 crore ($830 million) from the same month last year. Export of manmade yarn, fabric and made-ups fell 8.3 per cent to Rs 2,310 crore.Overall export of retail and lifestyle products grew at a compound annual rate of 10 per cent from 2012-13 to 2015-16. The government's target for textile and garment sector exports is $45 billion for 2017-18, as against $38.6 bn and $40 bn for 2016-17 and 2015-16, respectively.The decline in export of readymade garments indicates India's failure to raise its global share, despite the world leader, China (42 per cent of global total) ordering the shutting of many textile units on environment concerns. Exporters ..
The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (Texprocil) has urged the government to exempt merchant exporters from charging integrated goods and services tax (IGST) to make India's textiles exports cost competitive in overseas markets.While welcoming the government's decision to reduce GST levy on job work to 5 per cent now from 18 per cent earlier, Ujwal Lahoti, Chairman of Texporicil, said, "Merchant exporters cannot benefit from the facility of exports under bond / LUT (Letter of Undertaking)". There is no enabling document prescribed so far by the government under which goods can be cleared by a manufacturer without charging IGST meant for exports by a merchant exporter against bond/LUT. In absence of such a provision, therefore, the manufacturer charges IGST on the goods supplied to the merchant exporter meant for exports under Bond/LUT. In the erstwhile central excise regime, there was a facility under which a merchant exporter who has executed a bond (B-1 bond) was provided ...