博茨瓦纳新的纺织服装协会成立

 

New textile & clothing association formed in Botswana

Botswana Textile and Clothing Association (BTCA) has been formed by the textile and clothing businesses in Gaborone, in the Southern African country of Botswana to enhance the textile industry’s growth and sustainability, Botswana Daily News reported.
BTCA plans to help local companies with routine challenges, including accessing funds from financial institutions, and will work toward improving the capacity of Botswana’s apparel industry. The association will direct most of its efforts to better equip companies to take advantage of United States Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and to boost the textile sector’s efforts to fully utilize duty-free incentives under the AGOA.
The president of BTCA Shahid Ghafoor, talking to Botswana Daily News, said that the association would further assist the textile sector to increase domestic, regional, and international markets share for Botswana textile and clothing in addition to increasing innovation and creativity among its members.
In its efforts to help local companies sustain themselves in a highly competitive global market environment, BTCA will engage in technology advancing where companies will be capacitated on the benefit of using modern technology for efficiency and economies of scale production, he said.
Ghafoor said that BTCA will promote entrepreneurship in the industry as well as assist clothing businesses in accessing finance from financial institutions and other sources. Botswana’s clothing and textile sector has failed to take full advantage of AGOA, struggling to make export sales to the competitive and demanding US market, he added.
He noted that the cost of logistics is high in Botswana, making it difficult for companies to import raw materials and export finished product.
The textile industry faces so many challenges in its day to day running and these include customs procedures where South African Revenue Service (SARS) does not recognise the Botswana Revenue Service (BURS)’s seal as mentioned by one of the exporters, he said.
Ghafoor mentioned that another issue is the high cost of utilities which affects competitiveness. He further said delayed payments when dealing with AGOA also creates cash flow problems for exporting companies.

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博茨瓦纳新的纺织服装协会成立

博茨瓦纳每日新闻报道，博茨瓦纳纺织品服装协会(BTCA)由南部非洲国家博茨瓦纳首都哈博罗内的纺织和服装企业组成,旨在提高纺织行业的增长和可持续性。

BTCA计划在日常挑战下帮助当地企业，包括从金融机构获得融资,并将努力提高博茨瓦纳服装产业的能力。协会将奋发从事帮助企业更好的利用《非洲增长与机遇法案》(AGOA)，并根据AGOA充分利用免税奖励来促进纺织行业的发展。

BTCA会长Shahid Ghafoor告知博茨瓦纳每日新闻，该协会除了增加其成员之间的创新和创造力之外，还将进一步帮助纺织行业增加博茨瓦纳纺织品和服装在国内、地区以及国际市场的份额。

在努力帮助当地公司在竞争高度激烈的全球市场环境下维持自己,BTCA将致力于技术推进，企业生产将得益于使用现代技术来有效的和规模经济生产,他说。

Ghafoor说，BTCA将促进该行业的企业家精神并帮助服装企业通过金融机构和其他来源获得融资。博茨瓦纳服装和纺织部门未能充分利用《非洲增长与机会法》,努力竞争出口销售并争得美国市场,他补充道。

他指出, 博茨瓦纳的物流成本较高,这使得公司很难进口原材料和出口成品。

纺织行业在其日常运行中面临着很多挑战,其中包括海关手续南非纳税服务(SARS)不承认博茨瓦纳的纳税服务（BURS)印章,他说。

Ghafoor提到另一个问题是公用事业的高成本影响竞争力。他进一步表示, 在处理《非洲增长与机会法》延迟付款可以为出口企业创造现金流问题。