Pakistan tanners could receive treatment plant grants
09/08/2012
Industry representatives, led by the chairman of the Pakistan Tanners’ Association, S.M. Naseem, made clear the leather sector’s opposition to the export of live animals from Pakistan, including the practice of smuggling livestock into neighbouring countries. They said the resulting loss of raw material was hurting the domestic tanning sector badly.
But they also made it clear that they did not want to see any restriction on exports of finished leather from Pakistan, claiming that this would be “disastrous” for the industry.
For his part, Mr Qureshi urged the association to make sure its members comply with export duty regulations saying he wanted to see an end to evasion of duties because the government needs the revenues arising from the measures in place, which include duty of 20% on export of wet blue.
In return, he said he would work on a plan to establish grants to match companies’ own funds to build individual effluent treatment plants and new laboratories in Pakistani tanneries.
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