The Chairman of Pakistan Gloves Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PGMEA) Syed Shahzada Ibn-e-Ahmed Iqbal has demanded imposition of ban immediately on export of "blue split leather" to save the gloves industry from total collapse.
In a press statement the PGMEA Chairman said due to shortage of Split Leather its price has increased dreadfully and under the circumstance it is too difficult to export gloves at reasonable cost. He said that export of blue split leather was adversely impacting the gloves industry as sufficient material is not available in the market. "We have huge foreign orders of gloves, but due to non-availability of the material the business community is confronting multiple problems," he said.
He said wet blue leather was being exported since 2004-5 as a result of which the gloves industry confronting with multiple problems. The Chairman PGMEA apprised that among 280 tannery units about 50 percent units are utilising wet blue leather resultantly about 200,000 workers are facing sever problems.
Syed Shahzada Ibn-e-Ahmed Iqbal said that it would be a serious blow to national exchequer if the situation remained the same as Pakistan would lose its grip on international market. "Though the government has imposed 20 percent duty on the export of split leather, unfortunately it yet being exported by the changing its case" he added.
He said that it was right time that the government should take serious action while considering the gravity of this serious matter in this regard to keep the gloves industry alive in the international competitive market.
He further added that timely action of the Government could not only be supported to protect the gloves industry but would also avoid the huge unemployment of more that 200,000 industrial workers engaged with the gloves industry. He pointed out that export of gloves amount to over about US 330 million dollar. If the gravity of this serious issue is not resolved immediately there would be rapid decline in the gloves export.
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