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Sri Lanka's Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) reveals a number of its apparel companies are doubling down on ESG-focused innovation.

The GSP+ scheme became effective on Jan 1, 2014, and it will remain available to Pakistan for the current fiscal year.

In 2020, 28 per cent of Pakistan's total exports to the EU were duty-free thanks to its GSP Plus status, and 78 per cent of these exports went to the EU. For the upcoming round, the EU has tightened the requirements for the GSP Plus programme, which grants duty-free access to more than 66 per cent of goods. To qualify for the GSP Plus programme, the nations will now need to submit a plan of action to implement more than 30 conventions.

Given that Pakistan has reneged on various international agreements that include those relating to good governance, human rights and labour rights, the

JEERS TO several print media for failing to include the necessary perspective of human rights in reporting the resumption of free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations between the Philippines and the European Union (EU). Most of the coverage did not include background to inform the public that the EU suspended the discussion of its FTA because of the state of human rights (HR) during the Duterte administration. The post Reports on PH-EU trade talks ignore concerns about human rights appeared first on CMFR.