南非承诺支持服装纺织行业

South Africa commits support to apparel-textile sector
South Africa’s Clothing andTextileCompetitiveness Programme has helped sector exports grow from 7.1-billion rand (R) in 2008 to R25.1 billion in 2017 and will receive its share of the R15.9 billion allocated to incentives and the Expanded Public Works Programme. The Small Business and Innovation Fund will also help entrepreneurs in the pre-start-up phase.
Twenty two new leather factories have been opened in the last nine years creating 2,200 jobs. To augment this, government funds will be reprioritised to the clothing and textiles production incentive from special economic zones, according to areportin an engineering news website from South Africa.
The national treasury has, over the medium term, placed incentives for agriculture, land reform, manufacturing and research and development among its priorities for expenditure reprioritisation.
The CEO Initiative’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Fund has raised R1.4-billion till now, with about R500-million expected to be committed for debt and equity investments in SMEs by the first quarter of 2019.
The financial sector has committed to invest R100-billion over five years in black industrial enterprises and firms. The Financial Sector Transformation Council is working with the Department ofTradeand Industry to finalise guidelines for the disbursement of this funding, the report added.
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南非承诺支持服装纺织行业
南非的服装和纺织品竞争力计划帮助该部门的出口从2008年的71亿兰特增长到2017年的251亿兰特，并将获得分配给奖励和扩大公共工程计划中的159亿兰特的份额。小企业和创新基金也将帮助处于创业初期阶段的企业家们。
在过去的九年里，新开了22家皮革工厂，创造了2200个工作岗位。南非一家工程新闻网站的一份报告称，为了扩大这一规模，政府资金将被重新安排到经济特区的服装和纺织品生产奖励计划上。
从中期来看，该国财政部将农业、土地改革、制造业和研发列为优先支出项目。
中小企业基金到目前为止已经筹集了14亿兰特，预计到2019年第一季度将有大约5亿兰特用于中小企业的债务和股权投资。
金融部门承诺在5年内向黑人企业和公司投资1000亿兰特。报告还称，金融部门转型委员会正与美国贸易和工业部合作，以最终确定支付这笔资金的指导方针。