Textile mill owners in Pakistan have issued a new appeal for help from the country’s political leaders, this time over imports of cotton from the US and Brazil that have been blocked at ports.

Delays in shipping the cotton from the Americas to Pakistan meant a substantial volume of the fibre arrived into port after the expiry of import licences that mill owners has secured.

Port authorities and, notably,  Pakistan’s department of plant protection, have refused to unload the shipments and mill owners have incurred six-figure demurrage charges from the shipping companies.

Textile industry association APTMA has written to the prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, to ask him to intervene.

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