Textile ministry to organise buyers conference

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The ministry of textile industry will organise “Buyers Conference” during the next month aiming at strengthening the compliance of Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) Buyers’ forum will facilitate and promote a dialogue platform between buyers and manufacturers to discuss sustainable practices and improved compliance and reporting on environmental, labour, health and safety standards and their implementation in the textile sector of the country, said a press release on Wednesday.

The conference will be organised in collaboration with the Embassy of Netherlands, International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

In this regard, a consultative meeting was held under the chairpersonship of secretary MinTex for finalising the names of major international buying chains as well as focal persons from Pakistani side to attend the buyers’ conference.

It said the forum was a joint effort from all stakeholders with the sole aim of strengthening GSP plus compliance for sustainable development of local textile industry.

The purpose of this forum is to bring together all the stakeholders so that they come up with a concrete mechanism that may guarantee raised standards and compliance.

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