🇱🇰 JAAF Welcomes 2026 Budget Focus, Urges Policy Clarity for Exports 📈

• The Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) welcomed the 2026 Budget's clear intent towards export-led growth, investment facilitation, and continued macroeconomic stability. • Commended positive steps like renewed focus on digitalisation, trade facilitation, enhanced capital allowances, and administrative reforms (Inland Revenue reform, RAMIS 3.0, E-invoicing). • JAAF stressed that policy execution, consistency, and clarity in implementation are crucial to translate commitments into tangible outcomes and drive confidence in the highly competitive global environment. • Key enablers urged for continued export growth include: ensuring stable energy costs, facilitating renewable adoption, enhancing logistics competitiveness, and aligning policy with sustainability goals/preferential market access requirements. • The industry reiterated its readiness to collaborate on a unified national export strategy supporting industries and the workforce.