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DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR

2017; GTex now in NTU

Editor-in-Chief Faisalabad with Covitex; SEZ
Yousaf Fareed
investments would be tax
Editor
Hassan Saeed exempted; Cotton cess from

Sub-Editor textile mills illegal
Saba Noor
Farooq Malik
New International Expo Centre year. EDANA is a Belgium based
Pudong, Shanghai, China will be the international association that is
Advisory Board: venue for the upcoming event of serving the non-woven and related
Dr. Tanveer Hussain DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR industries from all parts of the globe.
Dr. Muhammad Tausif exhibition. The event is planned to Back in 1971, founded as European
be held from 21st to 23rd of March Disposables and Nonwovens
Marketing Manager 2017. For the first two days the event Association, EDANA has grown and
Mohammad Ahmed will open up at 9:00 am and will changed as times dictated and has
Mohammad Khan close at 6:30 pm. While on the third become a voice for the nonwovens
Abdul Haseeb day the opening hours will be 9:00 industry with a focus on Europe,
Qaisar Hameed am and will close at 3:00pm. Africa and the Middle East.
Products category that will be
displayed at the upcoming session “Investors and industries setup in the
Layouts will include; Wood Flooring, Bamboo Special Economic Zones would be
Faizan Khan & Cork Flooring, Flooring exempted from the tax” said Dr.
Technology, Machine-Made Carpets, Miftah Ismail-Minister of State and
Circulation Incharge Hand-Made carpets, Carpets Chairman Board of Investment.
Mohammad Bilal Khan Technology ,Resilient Flooring Furthermore, according to the
,Sports Flooring ,WPC ,Stones reports, the government is also
Adddress & Ceramic. reviewing relaxations given to China
C-302, City Towers under the Pak-China Free Trade
Main Boulevard, Gulberg II The next edition of GTex is going to Agreement as exports to Beijing are
Lahore-Pakistan be held in National Textile University a mere $2 billion against imports of
with Covitex conference. The $18bn.
conference held every two year is
Phone: + 92 42 35 788 700 one of the best educational and Ruled by the Peshawar High Court
Fax: + 92 42 35 788 700 industrial research sharing platform. (PHC), Prime Minister of Pakistan or
It will be done under the supervision the federal cabinet cannot impose
Email: info@textalks.com of Dr Tanveer Hussain and Dr tax without approval of the
Skype: textalks Rashid. GTex global expo will be Parliament, further it was declared
held at the same venue from March that the recovery of cotton cess from
www.textalks.com 27-29, 2017. A number of quality the textile mills of KPK, Pakistan is
exhibitors and visitors are expected negated and illegal. The bench
in the first Gtex show in Faisalabad. allowed the written petition filed by
the KPK chapter of All Pakistan
Index 17- A triennial nonwovens Textile Mills Association against the
exhibition is all set to set new imposition as well as recovery of the
benchmarks in Geneva in April this cotton cess.