Pakistan: industry calls for urgent help
03/11/2009
Gulzar Firoz, chairman of the central branch of the Pakistan Tanners’ Association, has called on the country’s government, and particularly the ministries of commerce and finance, to come to the aid of the leather industry there.
He said Pakistan’s leather industry had suffered a serious decline in its export business during the first quarter of the current financial year, which began in July. Exports of leather and leathergoods declined by about 29% during the July-September period.
Mr Firoz called on the ministry of commerce to convene a meeting urgently to discuss the issue.
He said that the decline was most serious in finished leather (30%), leather apparel (16%), gloves (66%), leather footwear (10%) and other leathergoods (55%). The figures come from the Federal Bureau of Statistics.
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