Makhdoom Amin Fahim, Federal Minister for Commerce was met by the six-member delegation of Pakistan Carpet Manufacturers and Exporters Association to discuss the problems faced by the carpet industry.
The minister has suggested exporters to concentrate on quality improvement of products and to take efforts to bring variety of innovations in product designing to provide an international standard to the products.
The minister assured the support of Ministry of Commerce and Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) to provide facilities to the carpet exporters and was concerned about the decline in carpet exports from $146 million to $103 million during the current year.
Carpet export sector has remained one of the main export sectors with which about 2 million people were associated, said Akhtar Nazir, Chairman of Pakistan Carpet Manufacturers and Export Association.
Fibre2fashion News Desk - India