The Ministry of Textiles has outlined government initiatives to strengthen India’s textile sector export preparedness and global competitiveness, combining production-linked support, market-access strategy, and recent trade-policy interventions. The government also reported textile and apparel exports at ₹3,25,339 crore in 2025–26 and tied export-support measures to policy predictability and logistics resilience amid disruptions affecting maritime trade routes.
What happened (announced measures and support framework)
The government highlights both ongoing schemes and newly undertaken measures aimed at export competitiveness in textiles and apparel:
What existed earlier (policy base for export support)
The policy base for textile export competitiveness, as reflected in the government’s approach, includes long-running production, capacity building, and market access interventions such as the PM Mega Integrated Textile Regions and Apparel Parks Scheme, the Production Linked Incentive Scheme for Textiles, the National Technical Textiles Mission, and SAMARTH—Scheme for Capacity Building in the Textile Sector. The Rebate of State and Central Taxes and Levies (RoSCTL) Scheme has been operational since March 2019 to rebate embedded taxes and levies on exports of garments and made-ups.
What changed now (recent extensions and tariff/duty steps)
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