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EPB authorised

to withdraw

quota allocation

powers from

textile body

MUZAFFAR QURESHI

KARACHI: The Ministry of Commerce has empowered the Export Promotion Bureau to withdraw the powers of quota allocation from a textile association if it is unable to perform its functions under the Textile Quota Management policy Order, 2000.

The Ministry has issued a notification (No. 121 (1)/2000) which says that in exercise of the powers conferred by sub section (1) of section 3 of the Imports and Exports (Control) Act 1950 (XXXIX of 1950), the Federal Government has directed that the following further amendment shall be made in the Textile Quota Management Policy Order, 2000, namely:

(a) In paragraph 6, for sub-paragraph (4) the following shall be substituted, namely:-

" (4) If a Textile Association is unable to function under this Order, the Export Promotion Bureau on the recommendation of the Quota Supervisory Council may withdraw the Textile Association's functions and powers in respect of textile quota management and the responsibility of quota allocation entrusted to that textile association shall revert to the Export Promotion Bureau which may entrust these functions to another textile association handling same or similar products".

(b) In paragraph 20, after sub-paragraph (5), the following new sub-paragraph shall be inserted, namely:-

"(5-A)" Any textile association, aggrieved by an order of the Vice Chairman, Export Promotion Bureau, initiated under paragraph 6 sub-paragraph (4) and (5) of the Order, may within thirty days of the Order, apply for review to the Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, whose decision thereon shall be final".