The Recommended Strategies for Pakistan to Avail the Advantage of Textile Quota Free Regime in Exports

Abdul Karim, Madiha (2023): The Recommended Strategies for Pakistan to Avail the Advantage of Textile Quota Free Regime in Exports.

Abstract

This research report is concerned regarding to find out the factors, policies and strategies that the Pakistani textile exporters should implement in their efficient and effective working operations in order to create and achieve the competitive advantage over its value added (garments and knitwear) textile industry. So due to this, they can deliver this sort of scale, high quality garments and can serve all parts of the European market successfully. As we know that Pakistan’s textile industry is one of the leading textile industry among the other key textile players of the world and the leading sector in the economy of Pakistan. The previous and current data shows that throughout the years, Pakistan has continuously increasing its textile exports and if we emphasize on the value-added products like garments, hosiery, knit wears and other textile made-ups, the export volume of textile can be increase by manifold.

After the Jan 1, 2005 in which the WTO has provided the quota free regime to Pakistan and has imposed the quota on China. Now by imposing the quota on China, there is definitely the opportunity for Pakistan so now this is the ability of Pakistani textile exporters that how they can use it and completely avail such kind of remarkable opportunity. For this purpose, the questionnaire has been developed which has been administered by the key personnel of 10 textile industries of Pakistan. The questionnaire has the questions which have given the information about current position and problems faced by textile exporters in this sector and also the rules and policies by Export Promotion Bureau regarding the textile exports of Pakistan.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Export-Free Regime
• Subjects: M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M0 - General

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1. The Internet sources utilized for collecting the information are :

• www.statpak.gov.pk Pakistan’s garment and textile industry on pg # 39, Review of textile exports on pg # 39, Pakistan’s exports of top 10 products on pg # 40, Pakistan’s top 10 buyers of textile products on pg # 41; all these information extracted from Federal Bureau of Statistics, Government of Pakistan

• www.epb.gov.pk Pakistan’s market share of yarn and cloth in world trade on pg # 42-43, Present status of Pakistan’s textile industry on pg # 7-8; all these information extracted from Export Promotion Bureau of Pakistan.

1. The publications utilized for collecting the information are: • Dawn 1- “Higher exports targeted to contain trade deficit”, written by M. Aftab, published in Dawn on 21st September 2004, pg # 15. Sayings of PM Mr. Shaukat Aziz, line # 3-4, 8-10, pg # 15.

2- “Textile industry: Marketing challenges in post-quota era”, written by Noor Ahmed Memon, published in Dawn on 11th December 2004, pg # 16-17.

3- “Textile exports increase by 7% in quota-free regime”, written by Farhan Sharif, published in Dawn on 21st May 2005, pg # 18. Sayings of Director research Mohammed Sohail and Jahangir Siddiqui, line # 12-17, pg # 18.

4- “Textile sector profit up 48pc in 9 months: quota-free regime”, written by Parvaiz Ishfaq Rana, published in Dawn on 13th October 2005, pg # 19-20. Analysis of study carried out by Suleman Amir Ali of Invest Cap, line # 7-10, 14-27, pg #19-20.

5- “Pakistan to benefit from quota-free regime: ILO”, written by Imran Ayub, published in Dawn on 14th October 2005, pg # 21. Analysis of International Labor Organization (ILO) report, line # 4-13, pg # 21.

6- “Making full use of MFA phase-out”, written by Zafer-ul-Hassan Almas, published in Dawn on 5th November 2005, pg # 22.

• Asia Pulse 1- “Pakistan’s textile industry sees solid export growth in 2005”, published in Asia Pulse on 20th December 2004, pg # 23. Sayings of Minister of Textile Industry Mushtaq Ali Cheema, line # 1-4, 8-9, 12-15, pg # 23.

2- “Paki take steps to boost competitiveness of textile, apparel goods”, published in Asia Pulse on 21st January 2006, pg # 24. Sayings of PM Mr. Shaukat Aziz, line # 1-2, 10-16, pg # 24.