PTEA demands measures to raise exports.

The Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) has appreciated the significant drop of 33percent in the trade deficit, however, they urged for measures to boost industrialisation and exports as growth in exports has remained tepid during the July-November period.

Hailing the sharp fall in the trade deficit, PTEA Chairman Sohail Pasha pointed out that this decline in the deficit is mainly contributed by the import side and not from exports, as growth in exports remained weak.

Quoting official figures, he said that exports have fallen by 0.67percent in November over the preceding month while the average rise in exports in the...

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