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The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (Texprocil) has sought zero work entree to the European Union (EU) for textile products.
The fabric textiles sector, which provides livelihoods to lakhs of agrarian artisans, presently exports implicit $1.3 cardinal annually to the European Union. However, tariff barriers successful the EU market, spot Indian cotton-based products astatine a competitory disadvantage compared to countries.
The Texprocil has consistently advocated zero-duty entree successful the ongoing India–EU negotiations. As the India–EU Free Trade Agreement moves person to conclusion, it has reiterated its request for a broad zero-duty marketplace entree for each fabric textiles products.
Such a woody volition assistance reconstruct competitiveness, fortify farmer-linked worth chains, enactment MSME exporters, beforehand sustainable, value-added exports, and importantly heighten India’s footprint successful the EU marketplace from the existent exports of $1.3 billion, the Texprocil said successful a property merchandise connected Saturday.
At the caller Heimtextil Show held successful Frankfurt, Germany, the world’s largest planetary level for the location textile sector, Indian exporters were optimistic of the ensuing woody with the EU, the merchandise added.
