Textile Merchants on strike against 5% GST on textile

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Demanding exemption for textiles from the Goods and Services tax, retail and wholesale shops and yarn merchants are on a three-day shut down.

President of the Association Ravichandran asid the association submitted to the District collector a memorandum addresses to the Prime Minister seeking withdrawl of the five per cent GST proposed for textiles. If the GST was levied, textile trade would be affected heavily, he claimed.

Erode is a major textile centre along with Tirupur and Coimbatoe in western Tamil Nadu.

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