All Pakistan Textiles Processing Mills Association (APTPMA) recently demanded a waiver in payments of EOBI, SESSI/PESSI and taxes & levies for export sectors for March to June 2020 from the Pakistan government.

It also demanded the introduction of the Self Registration and Assessment Scheme from July 2020 onward without any surveillance and post audits. EOBI & SESSI cards should be given to workers. This will increase voluntarily registration benefiting both employees and employers.

Further, APTPMA demanded immediate suspension of export development surcharge and mentioned that 0.25 per cent this is deducted from export proceeds of the exporters. This increases the cost of doing business of the exporters. Huge amount of EDF collected by Government is available in its kitty.

APTPMA proposed that government should suspend collection of Export Development Fund (EDF) surcharge till the huge unutilized amount of EDF is exhausted. This will make the industry competitive.