牛仔布行业敦促中央提高退税税率

Denim industry urges Centre to hike duty drawback rates

Denim manufacturers are urging the Central government to announce immediate enhancement in the present duty drawback rates and extend some more benefits under focus product scheme. The Indian denim industry has experienced a shutdown of over 50 per cent of its capacity post government’s move to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination notes.

Industry experts are also requesting the government to focus on market scheme so that the mills can competitively try to shift production for export market. The denim fabric sold in the domestic trade needs to be cut, sewn and washed before it can be sold in the market. These upstream activities are majorly done in the unorganised sectors located at the small-scale industries of Gandhinagar and Tank Road in Delhi, Ulhasnagar in Mumbai and Bellary near Bangalore. These hubs mainly deal in cash, and have shut down due to cash crunch. This has affected the selling of 85 per cent of the fabric in the domestic market.

Since the upstream activities of garment sewing and washing in these small-scale industries will take a while to work smoothly with the formal banking system, industry experts fear that short-term recovery of market will not occur in near future. This has also led to shutdown of denim mills and loss of jobs in this industry.

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牛仔布行业敦促中央提高退税税率

牛仔裤制造商正在敦促中央政府宣布，立即增加当下退税税率，并在重点产品方案下，给予更多的好处。印度牛仔行业经历了50%的关停，在政府决定废止流通500卢比和1000卢比面额的纸币以后。

业内专家也要求政府把重点放在市场计划,以便工厂可以有竞争性的向出口市场生产转变。在国内市场销售的牛仔面料在市场上出售前需要裁剪,缝制以及洗涤。这些上游活动主要在甘地讷格尔和德里Tank Road，孟买的斯讷格尔以及班加罗尔的贝拉里。这些中心主要是现金交易,由于现金短缺已经关闭了。这已经影响到国内市场85%的面料销售。

因为这些小规模行业的服装缝纫和洗涤将需要一段时间通过正规银行系统来顺利运作, 业内专家担心，在不久的将来市场的短期复苏不会发生。这也导致牛仔工厂关闭，以及行业 岗位的丢失。