ABSTRACT
The small-scale manufacturing sector has played a major role in the diversification and growth of Pakistan’s exports since 1970. The chief exports of this sector are leather goods, footwear, sporting goods, carpets, textile manufactures, and engineering goods. Pakistan’s leather exports include hides and skins, tanned leather, luggage, garments, gloves, and other manufactures. Workers and management in the industry are not familiar with modern methods. The industry is almost entirely dependent upon imported tanning materials, chemicals, and dyes as well as machinery. Pakistan’s leather exports go to a number of countries. The chief markets are Italy, Japan, and Sweden. The footwear industry is largely a cottage industry. Production units are categorized as being in the governmental organized sector, the unorganized sector, or the country sector. The governmental sector consists of about twenty mechanized units, while the unorganized sector comprises about 1200 semi-mechanized and hand-operated units.
