Embassy of India,Tokyo
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Dr. A Sakthivel
Chairman, AEPC
MESSAGE
About AEPC
Main activities of the Council:
- Guiding and facilitating Apparel Exporters to showcase their best products at domestic fairs as well as international fairs
- Enhancing value driven exports through supply side and demand side interventions in all the apparel clusters
- Support growth of the entire textile value chain
- Better connect with sourcing countries, buyers and brands for greater visibility of Brand INDIA
- Facilitation and development of MMF segment of India.
- Training the workforce and supplying a steady stream of manpower to the industry
- Identifying opportunities for collaborations with overseas partners for up scaling and technology up gradation
- Providing market intelligence and policy advocacy for Textile and Apparel Industry
- Have regular interaction with Government and provide suggestions and recommendations for enhancing manufacturing and exports
About WWEPC
WWEPC has been established by the Government of India on 6th October, 1964 as a non-profit organization under the Society Registration Act, 1860 with the responsibility to enhance the exports of all types of wool and woollen/ acrylic blended/ pashmina products like knitwears, sweaters, jersey, pullovers, fabric worsted and woollen suiting’s, shawls, stoles, ponchos, mufflers, socks, thermal wear, blankets, machine made carpets, felts, yarns, tops/noils, hand woven textiles and other made-ups.
WWEPC is registering authority under Foreign Trade Policy which is basically promoting, supporting and assisting firms in entering the international markets.
WWEPC provides invaluable assistance to Indian exporters as well as importers/ buyers who choose India as their preferred sourcing destination for woollen products.
WWEPC help registered member-exporters through various functions direct or indirect to grow and compete in global markets and hence plays a significant role for any exporter in India. The Council has more than 2000 members who are manufacturers and exporters of woollen/acrylic blended products.
WOOL AND WOOLLEN TEXTILES SECTOR:
In India Woollen textiles and clothing industry is relatively small compared to the cotton and manmade fibre based textiles and clothing industry. However, the woollen sector plays an important role in linking the rural economy with the manufacturing industry, represented by small, medium and large scale units. The product portfolio is equally divergent from textile intermediaries to finished textiles, garments, knitwears, blankets, carpets and an incipient presence in technical textiles. Wool industry is a rural based export oriented industry and caters to civil and defense requirements for warmer clothing.
The woollen industry in the country is of the size of Rs. 11484.82 Crores and broadly divided & scattered between the organized and decentralized sectors.
The organized sector consists of: Composite mills, Combing units, Worsted and Non Worsted spinning units, Kintwears and Woven Garments units and Machine Made Carpets manufacturing units.
The Decentralize Sector includes Hosiery and knitting, Power-looms, Hand knotted carpets, Druggets, Namadahs and Independent dyeing, Process houses and Woollen Handloom Sector.
There are several woollen units in the country, majority of which are in the small scale sector.
The industry has the potential to generate employment in far-flung and diverse regions and at present provides employment in the organised wool sector to about 12 lakh persons, with an additional 20 lakh persons associated in the sheep rearing and farming sector. Further, there are 3.2 lakh weavers in the carpet sector.
EXPORT OF WOOLLEN PRODUCTS:
India exports woollen products to all over the world. Our products are very well appreciated by the international buyers of many countries as compared to many other products of other countries (like China/Bangladesh/Pakistan/Sri Lanka etc). Our total exports of woollen/ blended products excluding woollen carpets is Rs. 5930.84 Crores during 2018-19 and shown growth of 15% over the export of Rs. 5167.34 Crores during the same period of corresponding year 2017-18 as per data of DOC. As per the statistics, most of the HS Lines of woollen products have shown positive growth.
THE INDIAN SILK EXPORT PROMOTION COUNCIL
The Indian Silk Export Promotion Council is a company registered at Companies Act 1956. The company was registered at Mumbai in the year 1983 duly sponsored under section 25 of the Companies Act by the Govt. of India (Ministry of Textiles). The Council is the registering authority under Foreign Trade Policy of the Exporters of silk and silk products. The Council at present has 808 live active exporters registered under FTP from various parts of the country and work on no profit basis to:
- To promote, advance, increase develop export of Natural Silks and Silk Blends and their products, including Readymade Garments and Carpets.
- To undertake all export promotion measures particularly to undertake market research, develop new designs and pattern of products, to undertake marketing in individual foreign countries as well as to survey export potential of natural silks and silk blends and their products from India, and open up areas of export potential.
- To establish design centers, to evolve improved designs and patterns relating to silk and its products, garments and carpets suitable for export.
- To conduct publicity in India and abroad.
- To organize fairs, organize participation in established fairs in India and abroad.
- To organize Buyer Seller Meet in India and abroad.
- To disseminate trade information to its members and provide periodical feedback on export trends to Govt. and suggest policy changes for promotion of export and fixed export targets.
- To resolve trade dispute of buyers and sellers.
- To issue Export Performance Certificate for availing import replenishment.
Message on the Occasion of the “17th India Trend Fair Tokyo 2026”
Chairman : Tsunenori Suzuki