Ministry develops textiles competitiveness programme

22 May '09

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A rebate mechanism will be put in place allowing for duty draw-backs on fabrics not domestically manufactured / or not available in sufficient quantities. A review of input costs to the household textiles sector has now commenced and will in all likelihood be completed during 2009. Going forward the dti will be working with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) to undertake a comprehensive benchmarking of the clothing and textile value chain in order to potentially identify further areas of achieving efficiencies.

SKILLS UPGRADING
A Skills Upgrading Programme is being finalised in collaboration with the Clothing, Textiles, Footwear & Leather (CTFL) Sectoral Education & Training Authority (SETA), Department of Labour (DoL) and the National Skills Fund (NSF). An extensive multi-stakeholder process identified that there was shortage of specific technical and managerial skills in these sectors. The skills upgrading programme seeks to address these critical skills gaps and to place a large proportion of the workforce on skills upgrading courses over the next five years.

ADDITIONAL AREAS OF WORK
During the course of 2009 three additional areas of work will be...... For more detials click here.

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