FIEO asks for reduced GST rates for job-work in garment making
The Dollar Business Bureau In an open letter to the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, A. Sakthivel, Regional Chairman, Southern Region, Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) today made an appeal that, ‘there are a number of activities, which are undertaken by the job-workers in the garment making industry which have been left out of the GST rate of 5%!’ In its recent meeting held on June 11, the GST Council had provided a major relief to the textiles and apparels manufacturers by announcing a sharp reduction in GST rates on certain merchant services from 18% to 5%. Industry leaders had welcomed the move saying that the massive reduction would help job workers to survive and compete with those in the captive manufacturing ...
Textile industry wants export benefits on all products
Himanshu Vatsa | The Dollar Business Days after the government announced a revised list of textile products eligible for benefits under Merchandise Export from India Scheme (MEIS), industry leaders said that excluding knitted fabric from the list will have adverse impact on the country’s exports. In a fresh notification issued on July 16, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) revised the list of textile products and countries importing those products from India for giving credit benefits to exporters. As per the revised list, textile items shipped to European countries like Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein will be eligible for duty credit scrip up to 5%. The fresh list also included exports of fabrics – both woven and knitted traded under various ...
