PTA chairman requests leather development plan
04/10/2012
Agha Saiddain told local paper The Business Recorder that the government need to treat it as "model sector" in the Strategic Policy Framework 2012-15 in order for it to grow from its current $1 billion.
He said while most countries have been increasing their exports of leather and leathergoods, Pakistan's exports declined 4% during 2011.
He said: "We have no leather development plan and for this reason we have lost our market share to other countries in South Asia."
He urged the Ministry of Commerce to conduct a study of incentives allowed in India, Bangladesh and China, and to provide a level playing field.
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