Pakistan Leather Exports Face Severe Challenges

2010/10/14 11:12:00 29

Pakistan

The leather industry was once the second largest export contribution to the industry, accounting for 5.4% of the export share. At present, Pakistan's

Leatherwear

Exports are disappearing.

Exit

Revenue fell by 30%, from $1 billion 220 million three years ago to $863 million.

Alam, President of the Pakistan leather Leather Association, said that this is the first news conference in 64 years, because the problem of the leather sector is intolerable, and the authorities have done nothing but make false condolences.

Leather industry finds it difficult to cover the cost of various reasons, for example, electricity costs rise by 63%, natural gas prices rise by 70%, and labor costs rise by 48%.

Electricity charges rose from 4.25 rupees / degrees in 2007 to the current 11 rupees / degree, and also suffered serious power outages.

Although Alam praised the government for exemption from the power cuts in the textile sector, he applied to the government for exemption from the gas and power outages of the 800 national leather and leather units.

They applied to the government for continuous electricity and natural gas supply, because leather production is a continuous process, because of power failure, which has caused harm to animal skins, which is also the reason for the rise of quality problems.