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Pakistan : Textile Industry to Face Non-Tariff Barriers |
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2003-9-10
The major textile exporting countries including Pakistan will face yet another dilemma in the post-textile quota regime when the developed countries will take advantage of non- tariff barriers (NTB) for restricting exports from these countries.
Pakistan along with other textile exporting countries must stress on the developed countries that NTB, which would mostly include social compliance issues, environmental issues, and labour standards may not be used against them, which might affect their exports to reach their markets, said former chairman, All Pakistan Textiles Mills Association (Aptma), Nadeem Maqbool.
In an interview to Dawn, he said that developed countries would use NTB as an excuse against the textile exporting countries with sole aim to protect their own textile industry and unemployment.
He said that another big problem in the post quota regime for textile exporting countries would be that the developed countries would look for ways for raising protectionist walls by initiating a chain of dumping cases against the developing countries.
He said to cope with the situation the government and the textile
exporters should get together to fight against it.
The chairman did not rule out the possibility that the proposed trade liberalization in the textile sector would result into price decline of commodities for making it competitive with products of other countries in the international markets.
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