Rajkot: The ceramic industries of Morbi the largest cluster in India , has demanded a separate promotion council for the sector to boost the export. They said that the Union minister was positive about their demands.Nilesh Jetpariya, president of Morbi Ceramic Association (Wall Tiles Division) told TOI, “We have made representation to the Union commerce minister to create a separate promotion council for ceramic industry to boost our exports. Their demand comes in the wake of the industry taking a hit with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) initiating process to impose anti-dumping duty on Indian product. The sector is also facing a tough time in the domestic market due to implementation of The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act or RERA.The industry leaders on Saturday made a representation on both the issues with Union minister of commerce and industry Suresh Prabhu on the sidelines of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit in Gandhinagar. Currently, our produce is covered under Capexil (Chemical and Allied Export Promotion Council of India) but it is not sufficient because they concentrate more on the chemical sector.”A promotion council is a non-profit body under the central ministry of commerce and industry that gets an annual budget to the tune of Rs 50 crore to Rs 100 crore to promote the export potential of a particular sector.It provides 70% cost to the industrial association to take part in the investor’s summit in foreign countries and arrange buyer-seller meet, besides encouraging participation in international trade fairs and organize awareness programmes and seminars in India.The ceramic industry players said that they need to boost exports because the domestic market has been sluggish whereas exports to Gulf countries have taken a hit after GCC initiated the process of anti-dumping duty.“Because of anti-dumping duty process initiated by GCC some importers of the Gulf countries have curtail their orders under the fear that they would have to pay extra cost if the decision comes after they place an order.”According to industry leaders, exports to Gulf countries have gone down by 25-30% in past few months.Morbi’s total ceramic export was to the tune of Rs 8,000 crore in 2017-18 of which 40% was to the Gulf countries.
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