RAFI and BACP will promote Russia-Pakistan Cooperation in Textile & Apparel Sector

June 4-7, 2024-Moscow, The 17th season of the exhibition BEE-TOGETHER took place in an expanded 2-streams format with two days dedicated to only foreign exhibitors. As preliminary estimated, this year twice as many participants showed up at the event. Most of them represent factories with extra capacities ready to process orders on contract production.

April 23, 2024, the Russian Association of Fashion Industry (RAFI) and the Business Association for Cooperation with Pakistan (BACP) has signed a cooperation agreement which cover a wide range of areas that are of potential interest to Russian clothing manufacturers, retailers and fashion brands.

The document was signed by the Presidents of the organizations: Tatiana Belkevich – on the part of RAFI and Jawad Rehman – on the part of BACP. The parties agreed to join forces on developing and implementing projects in the field of international trade and economic relations between entrepreneurs from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and companies working in fashion and textile industry in the Russian Federation.

Cooperation with BACP will lead to more intensive development of the bilateral potential between Russia and Pakistan in the textile and apparel sector-added Tatiana Belkevich
The joint activities will be devoted to organization of bilateral trade and economic missions, business meetings, industry-oriented exhibitions and other events aimed to establish B2B-cooperation. In addition, RAFI and BACP plan to search and select business partners for Pakistani and Russian companies, take marketing research and provide consulting on elevating effectiveness of both countries’ entrepreneurship.

The textile industry is the largest sector of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan economy. It plays an important role in the country’s export and contributes about 8.5% to the state’s GDP. The large volume of textile and garment production has allowed Pakistan to become one of the leading manufacturers and exporters of textile goods in the world – the country is the 8th largest exporter of textile products among Asian countries.