Submitted to:
Submitted by:
Zulqarnain
Hanif
Sohail
Izhar
APTMA
INTRODUCTION:
All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) is the premier
national trade association of the textile spinning, weaving, and
composite mills representing the organized sector in Pakistan.
APTMA emerges as the largest association of the country as it
represents 396 textile mills out of which 315 are spinning, 44
weaving and 37 composite units. These spinning mills have
production facilities of texturing, mercerizing and dyeing of yarns;
weaving mills have sizeable number of air-jet looms, and the
composite mills have manufacturing facilities from spinning to
finished textile products under one roof. The total installed
capacity of APTMA member mills accounts for 9,661,366 spindles,
61,608 rotors, 10,452 Shuttle less /Air jet Looms and 1897
conventional looms. The Association's members produce spun
and open-end yarn, grey, printed dyed fabrics and bed linen.
THE ORGANIZATION
Association's Principal Office is located at Karachi and Regional
Offices are at Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. The Principal Office
functions under the administrative control of the Chairman and
Central Executive Committee. It deals with the affairs connected
with textile trade and industry effecting members relating to
Federal Government, whereas matters concerning Provincial
Governments are dealt by the Regional Offices under the
direction of Regional Chairman.
MEMBERSHIP
APTMA membership consists of partnerships and or individual
proprietorships, which operate machinery for spinning, dyeing,
texturizing, twisting, or otherwise processing of yarn, thread, or
cordage, grey, printed and printed cloth and made ups for sale.
ADMISSION FEE
The intending member shall pay Rs.25, 000.00 as Admission Fee.
The total collection on account of Admission Fee shall be
distributed for utilization between Principal Office and the
Regional Offices in a manner that the share of the Principal Office
shall be 40% and that of the Regional office concerned 60%.
CLASSES OF MEMBERSHIP
Unlike previous law, the new Trade organization laws recognizes
only two following categories of membership and provides equal
opportunity to both the classes to take part in the affairs of the
APTMA.
(i). Associate Member:
means a member of a trade organization which is not a body
corporate or a multinational or a sales tax registered
manufacturing concern or a sales-tax-registered business concern
having annual turn-over of Rs.50 million or above;
(ii). Corporate Member:
Means a member of a trade organization which is either a body
corporate or a multinational corporation with its head office or
branch office in Pakistan or a sales-tax-registered manufacturing
concern or a sales-tax-registered business concern having annual
turn over of Rs.50 million or above.
(iii). Women Members:
In order to promote the role of women involved in Textile Sector,
the government has made compulsory for Associations to reserve
two seats in the Executive Committee for women entrepreneurs
and Electoral College for women seats shall be the Executive
Committee of the APTMA.
It also went on to add that the spinning sector was paying export
parity price to the farmers and in the interest of the farmers
would never suggest imposing ban on exports of cotton from the
country at a time when a shortfall was looming.
APTMA blamed the closure of a large PSF plant for the hike in yarn
prices as other PSF manufacturers had hiked prices and at the
same time the government had also imposed anti-dumping duties
on imports of PSF into the country.