Overseas Look Of Textile And Garment Industry

Pakistan Spin Industry lost $1 billion export orders

In the past few months, due to the shortage of electricity and energy supply in the textile industry in Punjab, Pakistan, the Pakistan textile industry has lost about $1 billion in export orders.

Mr. Ahsan Bashir, President of the Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA), said that in the first half of this fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, if the energy supply is not interrupted, Pakistan textiles and clothing Exports will increase by US $1 billion.

He added that despite the shortage of electricity and energy, the textile industry in Pakistan continued to grow 8.55% to $500 million in the first half of the fiscal year.

He said the president of Pakistan has pledged to supply 5 days of electricity and natural gas to the textile industry every week starting from next month.

He said that if continuous supply of energy and electricity, the textile industry imports can reach 140-150 billion target.

Pakistan into clothes The manufacturing and Export Association said that because of the shortage of energy and electricity supply, Pakistan's clothing industry could not buy raw materials such as yarn and fabric.

He said that due to the shortage of electricity and natural gas, 40% of the spinning factories in Punjab province were closed, resulting in a decline in yarn and dyed fabric production, forcing exporters to postpone delivery.

　　 Kampuchea has become a major exporter of clothing.

According to Kampuchea media reported on January 13th, despite the relatively weak international economic situation, the latest statistics show that Kampuchea's total exports increased by more than 10% over the previous year.

Among them, the total export of clothing and textiles increased by 9% to 4 billion 600 million US dollars. The export of traditional agricultural and sideline products in the country has dropped slightly. Kong Putheara, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce of Kampuchea, said that the economic situation did have a certain impact on Kampuchea's overall exports. However, the demand for Kampuchea clothing in the international market is still relatively strong. "Even if the economic situation is not good, people obviously have not reduced the purchase of clothing produced in Kampuchea."

However, as the growth rate in 2012 was lower than that of the previous year, clothing practitioners in Kampuchea also pointed out that frequent strikes and salary negotiations made the industry unstable, and the industry called for an immediate solution to this problem. At the same time, the Kampuchea clothing manufacturers association also plans to provide more workers with training and new equipment to increase productivity.