According to government sources, the Finance Ministry may soon issue a notification in this regard. If the government decides to notify the duty hikes this week, then it would have to be first tabled in Parliament.
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) in textile sector more than doubled to $618.95 million during 2016-17 from $230.13 million in the previous fiscal, Parliament was informed recently.
The total foreign direct investment (FDI) registered in Vietnam in the first half of the year reached more than $11.2 billion, the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) said. This is a significant surge of 105 per cent against the same period last year. Of the total, $7.5 billion came from 1,145 newly licensed projects, representing an yearly increase of 95 per cent in capital and 56 per cent in the number of projects.
Promise of new measures from the Government, much-awaited GST on the cards, hints of the decentralised segments attaining maturity that will spur demand for textiles augur well for the textile industry in 2016 and beyond, recounts an Exclusive Report by Joseph S and Karthik M.
The art of textile making began to develop in the Stone Age. The first textile fabric was probably a nonwoven crude felt, made by compressing loose clumps of fleece from wild sheep. The second stage was invention of yarn which was extracted from various barks of various plants in accordance to their availability.