Tirupur: Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging the Central government’s intervention to rejuvenate Tirupur knitwear cluster . Besides, duty drawback was reduced from 7.5% to 2-2.5%.The CM requested that “In order to cover all of these issues and provide competitive edge over other countries, the Central government should increase duty drawback to 5%. And also the pending dues of RoSL, which has not been cleared since May 2017, entitled to be given to Tirupur cluster alone touched around Rs 500 crore. The central government should take quick steps for such agreements.”Tirupur Exporters’ Association president Raja M Shanmugham said, “With such positive measures coupled with unveiling of integrated Tamil Nadu textile policy, the rejuvenation of the textile sector in the state will become possible.” Ethiopia, which is one of the emerging textile manufacturing nations, has free trade access with the United States.
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