Textiles Committee
Context: Textiles Committee, Ministry of Textiles signs MoUwith M/s Nissenken Quality Evaluation Centre, Japan to boost export of Textile and Apparel to Japanese market
- The main objective of the MoU is to provide required support to textile’s trade and industry for ensuring quality as per the requirement of Japanese buyers through Testing, Inspection & Conformity Assessment, Training & Capacity Building, Research & Development (R&D) and Consultancy.
- It is expected that the MoU will strengthen the bilateral trade by enhancing India’s export of Textile and Apparels (T&A) to Japan, which is the third largest export destination of the world.
- This MoU will formalize mutual interaction and strengthen the relationship in accordance with their respective areas of specialisation.
- Both the institutions have agreed to share and exchange relevant technical information and documentation on a regular basis and carry out activities relating to standards, quality assurance norms, joint research projects on testing, development of user friendly tools for dissemination of data to the industry and facilitate sourcing across the Textiles Value Chain (TVC) from both the countries.
Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)
- India and Japan have signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) in 2011 which inter-alia facilitates import of garments from India to Japan at zero duty.
- Japan is third largest importer of T&A in the world and India is 6th largest exporter and there is huge untapped potential for trade which remains unharnessed.
About Textiles Committee
- The Textiles Committee was established in the year 1963 by an Act of Parliament and is a statutory body under the Ministry of Textiles.
- It was established with a mandate, inter alia, to ensure quality of all textiles and textile products for domestic and export markets.
- The Textiles Committee is the only body providing for all the quality related needs of the entire Textiles Value Chain (TVC) in an integrated format on a pan-India basis through its network of 28 offices across the country including 19 state of art laboratories accredited under relevant national and International standards.
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