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Pakistan tanners ask for government help as export decline becomes “alarming”

04/04/2017
The chairman of the Pakistan Tanners’ Association, Anjum Zafar, has said the sector’s export revenues in the first eight months of the current financial year (July 2016-February 2017) show a decline year on year of more than 6%.

He called on the government to step up its support of the industry in the face of what he called an “alarming” trend. Concrete measures he asked the government to adopt include a 75% subsidy for all testing of leather at international laboratory facilities and the removal of customs duties on imported hides and skins; imported raw material currently attracts duty of 4%.


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