As per charter and by-laws

As per charter and by-laws, aims and objectives of the Association are;

1. To encourage friendly feeling and unanimity amongst Textile Mill owners on all subjects connected with their common good.

2. To secure good relations between members of the Association.

3. To promote and protect the trade commerce and manufactures of Pakistan in general and of the cotton trade in particular.

4. To consider questions connected with the trade commerce and manufactures of its members.

5. To collect and circulate statistics & information classify relating to the trade, commerce and manufactures of its members.

6. To take all steps which may be necessary for promoting, supporting or opposing legislative and other measures affecting the trade, commerce or manufactures of its members.

7. To make representation to local, Provincial and Central authorities on any matter connected with the trade, commerce and manufactures of its members.

8. To arbitrate in the settlement of disputes arising out of transactions, piece goods, yarn and other manufactured goods between parties willing or agreeing to submit to arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the Association.

9. To advance and promote commercial and technical education connected with the trade and commerce of its members.

10. To undertake special inquiries and initiate or support any action for securing the redress of legitimate grievances connected with the trade or commerce of its members.

11. To take any action which may be conducive to the extension of the trade and commerce of its members or incidental to the attainment of this object.

12. To subscribe, to become a member of and cooperate with any other Association whether incorporated or not whose objects are altogether or in part similar to those of the Association and to procure from or communicate to any such Association such information as may be likely to forward the objects of this Association

13. To establish or aid in the establishment of funds to benefit employees of the Association or the depending of such persons and to subscribe, donate or guarantee money for charitable or benevolent purposes at the discretion of the Association.

14. To regulate conditions of employment in the industry conducted or carried on by its members.

15. And generally to do all that may be necessary in the interest of the realization of the above objects of the Association directly or indirectly.

The Organization


Association's Principal Office is located at Karachi and Regional Offices are at Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. The Principal Office functions under the administrative control of the Chairman and Central Executive Committee. It deals with the affairs connected with textile trade and industry effecting members relating to Federal Government, whereas matters concerning Provincial Governments are dealt by the Regional Offices under the direction of Regional Chairmen.
The Chairman and Vice-Chairmen from Regional Offices are elected by the members annually and are charged with implementing the policies and program directives decided by the Central Executive Committees. The Chief Operating Officer and Secretaries are responsible for carrying out day-to-day affairs and programmes of the Association. The Central Executive Committee continuously reviews the policies and programs of the Association and establishes priorities accordingly.

Government Liaison

Government policies and plans at the federal level have a significant impact on textile industry affairs. APTMA works in close coordination with other national textile trade association and groups to safe guard the interest of its members in particular and textile industry as a whole. APTMA's role to supplement and complement overall industry activities is always motivated with interests of yarn and cloth segments of the industry.
Specifically, APTMA is involved on a continuing basis in the areas such as import and local procurement of cotton, cotton legislation, income and sales tax law, government statistical programs, and customs regulations concerning textiles exports and imports.
Several yarn industry executives serve on government advisory committees including the State Bank of Pakistan, TDAP, Ministry of Commerce and Federal Board of Revenue, Trade Policy Advisory Committee, and the Industry Sector Advisory Committee etc.

Statistical and Economic Information

The Association collects and compiles statistical and economic data on the textile industry mostly from a number of government sources and publishes Chairman's Annual Review to keep Association members and other sectors related to the industry fully informed about production and marketing trends in Pakistan and world. In addition, special reports are developed periodically on specific subjects at the request of the various committees and government agencies.

The annual general meeting of the Association held each September is an important component of APTMA's total program. Through this vehicle, industry members come to know each other's issues/problems and have time to assess industry trends in an atmosphere apart from day-to-day operations.
Committees

APTMA's activities and specific areas of interest are addressed through its Standing Committees, chaired by an industry executive.

Committees (2008-09)
The committees are as follows:
Standing Committee on Raw Cotton
Standing Committee on Man Made Fibre & Synthetic Textiles
Standing Committee on Banking
Standing Committee on Energy
Standing Committee on International Trade / WTO / ADI
Standing Committee on Research & Development
Standing Committee on Legal Affairs
Standing Committee on Administration & Finance
Standing Committee on Image Building and Media Management
Standing Committee on Islamabad Affairs
Standing Committee on Value Addition
Standing Committee on Export Price Check
Standing Committee on Customs, Sales Tax & Industry
Standing Committee on Taxation

Membership

APTMA membership consists of partnerships and or individual proprietorships, which operate machinery for spinning, dyeing, texturizing, twisting, or otherwise processing of yarn, thread, or cordage, grey, printed and printed cloth and made ups for sale.
The expenses of maintaining APTMA's professional staff and offices are met from the annual subscriptions and services provided to members. APTMA Principal Offices is the central administrative organization, but each member has its own offices and governing board.
For information about Membership, Chief Operating Officer of APTMA, Principal Office, can be contacted.

Articles about textile industry

Cut Resistance Behaviour of Fibres
By  : Dr. C. Rameshkumar & Dr. N. Anbumani

 cut resistant fabrics are made with polymeric and non polymeric high performance fibres such as high tenacity polyester, nylon, loyotropic polymer fibres, gel spun fibres and thermotropic liquid crystal polymer fibres. New products are also made with core and wrapped yarns by suitable combination of specialty fibres and yarns in different fabric weaves.

There is a continuing need for fabrics that resist cuts and abrasions, which occur when a sharp edge of a knife, a tool having a sharp edge or items having sharp edges are encountered. Cut resistant fabrics are particularly useful for making protective clothing such as gloves used in meat cutting industry and for handling metal/glass articles, in manufacture of sports wear, in automobile upholstery and for packaging materials.

Cut resistant fabrics are made with polymeric and non polymeric high performance fibres such as high tenacity polyester, nylon, loyotropic polymer fibres, gel spun fibres and thermotropic liquid crystal polymer fibres. New products are also made with core and wrapped yarns by suitable combination of specialty fibres and yarns in different fabric weaves.

The level of cut resistance provided by the reinforcing yarns depends on the way in which they are incorporated in the textile substrate. With regard to many different fabric manufacturing techniques available, a large number of alternatives for developing cut resistant textiles are feasible.

Cut resistance is the property demonstrated by a material or combination of materials, when a sharp-edged device initiates cut through. In general, there are two types of cut hazards: (1) Sharp edge cuts, such as knife blades and clean edge sheet glass and (2) Abrasive cut hazards; these include rough edge sheet metal, stamped or punched sheet metal, and rough edged sheet glass.

Pakistan-Textile Industry; Roundup: Pakistan's Government Solves Textile Crisis

Textile industry, the backbone of Pakistan's economy, accounts for 8 percent of the country's gross national product, 42 percent of total employment in large scale manufacturing and more than 60 percent of the country's total export receipts.
In the last three years, the textile industry confronted the most serious recession in decades.
The sharp fall in cotton output from 1991 to 1994, caused by cotton virus and floods, led to dramatic increases in cotton prices in the country.
The textile industry was hit hard by increasing power rates and high interest rates on commercial loans following ...

APTMA

All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) is the premier national trade association of the textile spinning, weaving, and composite mills representing the organized sector in Pakistan. APTMA emerges as the largest association of the country as it represents 396 textile mills out of which 315 are spinning, 44 weaving and 37 composite units. These spinning mills have production facilities of texturing, mercerizing and dyeing of yarns; weaving mills have sizeable number of air-jet looms, and the composite mills have manufacturing facilities from spinning to finished textile products under one roof. The total installed capacity of APTMA member mills accounts for 9,661,366 spindles, 61,608 rotors, 10,452 Shuttleless/Airjet Looms and 1897 conventional looms. The Association's members produce spun and open-end

Govt to withdraw zero-rating status to textiles, carpets & leather

Mr. Fawad Ijaz Khan Chairman Pakistan Leather Garment Manufacturers & Exporters Association (PLGMEA) has stated that the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is considering to withdraw Zero-Rating of Sales Tax granted under the Sales Tax regime to five Exporting Industries.

FBR is currently working on new Value-Added Tax law for full implementation of the VAT System as per agreement with the IMF. This new VAT system will replace the existing General Sales Tax (GST) regime.
Mr. Fawad further stated that the Government of Pakistan had zero-rated the Sales Tax on most of the Inputs used in the production of five Export Industries in the Federal Budget of 2005-06. The Zero-Rated industries were Textile, Leather, Sports, Surgical and Carpets.
As per our Government’s agreement with the IMF this new VAT System will have very minimal exemptions and all Trading and Services will be brought under the VAT regime. Besides Zero-Rating of five Exporting Industries the Sales Tax exemptions are covered under the Sixth Schedule of the Sales Tax Act 1990 and items mostly related to Food, Machinery & local supplies are exempted from Sales Tax.
Mr. Fawad stated that prior to 2005-06 there were many cases of over-invoicing of exports with the objective of claiming bogus Sales Tax Refunds. The unscrupulous exporters used to get bogus and flying Sales Tax Invoices and obtain undue Sales Tax Refunds.
Because of this practice the genuine exporters were not able to compete with Exporters who were taking advantage of loopholes in the old system by obtaining bogus and flying Sales Tax Invoices.
Even today several Sales Tax refunds pertaining to period prior to 2005-06 are still pending and FBR is not paying these claims because mostly suppliers of exporters are black-listed by the FBR.
Mr. Fawad stated that FBR was supposed to conduct a Seminar in December 2008 as per agreement with IMF to discuss the VAT regime with stakeholders. But no seminar has taken place so far and neither the stakeholders are consulted.
Mr. Fawad requested the FBR to maintain the Zero-Rated status of the five export industries already exempted from the scope of Sales Tax. If it is imperative to withdraw Zero-Rating then these five industries should be consulted and taken into confidence while formulating any new VAT Law.
Pakistan Leather Garment Manufacturers & Exporters Association

APTMA opposes imposition of anti-dumping duty on PSF

Recently, the government had slapped an anti-dumping duty on imports of Polyester Staple Fibre (PSF) from China. The textile mills of the country are up in arms against the decision taken by the National Tariff Commission
The textile mills, under the banner of the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) have said that this decision will lead to a cartel among PSF producers in the country and will render the textile products uncompetitive in global markets.
They allege that the domestic PSF manufacturers have already hiked the prices by 10 percent and are delaying deliveries to the textile mills. They add by saying that the local PSF producers already are protected by a 4.5 percent import duty and 8.5 percent expenses incurred in importing the fibre.

Duty free access from ROZ’s a non-starter - Experts

Mr Barrack Obama, President of the United States, had recently declared that the US would provide tariff free access to textile and apparel products manufactured on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border regions to be called Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZ’s
He had also added by saying that the cwould be provided on select textile and apparel products irrespective of the origin of the raw materials used in these products. This he said would go a long way in generating employment in the region.

But the textile and clothing industry in Pakistan is far from excited on hearing the proposal. Experts aver that, there is not a single unit remotely connected to the sector in the border areas, so this policy would be a non-starter in the short term.

One more drawback that the policy carries, say experts, is that, it excludes the largest variety of products that is exported to the US; Cotton knit shirts and cotton trousers which account for 90 percent of all exports from the sector to the US.

The bill also carries with it stringent labour law standards, the adherence to which would be one of the key parameters to getting the duty free access for these products and the Pakistan government would need to file regular reports on the observance of these norms.

Act to help stakeholders avail benefit of textile policy

A Textile Act has been proposed to be framed, under which only those companies registered with the Federal Ministry of Textiles, will be eligible to receive incentives under the textile policy, which was announced earlier in the year.

The details of the proposed Textile Act will be shared with the textile sector in the next meeting of the committee, as per a decision taken by the Textile Policy Implementation Liaison Committee at its second sitting held yesterday.

Members of the committee discussed various issues with regards to the implementation of the Textile Policy. Ideas and views were shared and different suggestions and recommendations were given by the committee members during the meeting.

The Committee was also informed about the registration process related to yarn export contracts and it was decided to convene a separate meeting, to discuss the issues relating to yarn exports and difficulties faced by the stakeholders.

Duty structure of polyester chain under review

In line with the directives announced in the Textile Policy 2009-2014, the National Tariff Commission (NTC) has initiated an investigation to review the duty structure of the Polyester value chain in the country.

The commission will follow a due process where, it shall carry out an in-depth examination of the case of protection to indigenous industry and also conduct comprehensive analysis of the relevant data.

The textile minister while announcing the textile policy had said that, to promote utilization of man-made fibre and diversify the export mix, monetization of customs duty of PTA is being continued to offset additional cost for the users for the current year.

Federal Cabinet approves Textile Policy

Federal Cabinet Wednesday approved textile policy in a meeting at Prime Minister Secretariat here with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in chair. The cabinet in the five-year textile policy has set the textile exports target at 25 billion dollars. The cabinet also decided to take steps to boost the production in textile sector. Prime Minister Gilani also formed a ministerial committee to monitor the enforcement of the textile policy. Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Wednesday said the Textile Policy aims at incorporating the strategies that are essential to address the challenges confronting this sector on a sustainable basis besides meeting the expectations of the industry. Addressing the Special Cabinet meeting convened to consider the Textile Policy 2009-14 at the PM Secretariat, the Prime Minister said for the first time in the history of the country, the government was adopting a five-year Textile Policy, which would give the vision that was needed for the textile sector.

PAKISTAN: Textile makers demand cotton yarn export ban

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Summary: Workers at a number of textile plants in Pakistan have taken strike action in protest against cotton yarn exports from the country.

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Date: 9 December 2009

Source: Ahmed Abdullah

Textile Industry in Pakistan - An Introduction

The share of textile industry in the economy along with its contribution to exports, employment, foreign exchange earnings, investment and value added makes it the single largest manufacturing sector for Pakistan. It contributes around 8.5 percent to GDP, employs 38 percent of the total manufacturing labor force, and contributes between 60-70 percent to total merchandise exports. Indeed, with exports reaching about $8.6 billion in 2004-05, Pakistan is one of the largest textile exporters in the world.