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G. Gurumurthy

Coimbatore, July 15 The South India Small Spinners Association (Sisspa) has asked the Centre to ban any further export of raw cotton to help contain spiralling cotton prices.

The Sisspa President, Mr R. Kuppusamy, said in a statement that cotton export decisions were being made without assessing the availability of cotton stocks in the country and the differences in projected cotton crop and actual arrivals in the market. Middlemen were creating an ‘artificial’ scarcity to push up prices, the statement said.

The association said the textile industry faced problems such as mounting yarn stocks, falling yarn prices and sliding exports due to rupee-dollar volatility. The sharp increase in raw cotton prices by Rs 1,000-Rs 1,500 per candy in the past month would only add to the sector’s troubles.

Besides banning cotton exports, Sisspa wants the Government to allow duty-free import of raw cotton and expeditious clearance of the five per cent capital subsidy under TUFS for textile spinners.

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