Gems And Jewellery: FPCCI calls for facilitating sector
The sector needs new machinery and equipment for modernisation and expansion
KARACHI:
FPCCI Standing Committee on Gems and Jewellery Producers, Manufacturers and Exporters Chairman Kashifur Rahman has urged the Ministry of Commerce to approve and notify the proposals of gems and jewellery sector pending with it. The recommendations were meant to remove hurdles and facilitate production and trade of gems and jewellery. “There lays great potential for gems and jewellery exports that needs to be duly explored,” he said, emphasising the need for maximum facilitation and support to the industry to make it compatible in the regional and international markets. “The sector needs new machinery and equipment for modernisation and expansion. The government should also allow their duty free import besides providing soft-term easy financing to the industry,” he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 23rd, 2015.
FPCCI Standing Committee on Gems and Jewellery Producers, Manufacturers and Exporters Chairman Kashifur Rahman has urged the Ministry of Commerce to approve and notify the proposals of gems and jewellery sector pending with it. The recommendations were meant to remove hurdles and facilitate production and trade of gems and jewellery. “There lays great potential for gems and jewellery exports that needs to be duly explored,” he said, emphasising the need for maximum facilitation and support to the industry to make it compatible in the regional and international markets. “The sector needs new machinery and equipment for modernisation and expansion. The government should also allow their duty free import besides providing soft-term easy financing to the industry,” he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 23rd, 2015.