Hyderabad, April 3 -- Telangana Industries Minister D. Sridhar Babu on Thursday said that global developments such as US tariff measures and the ongoing West Asia conflict are impacting the textile industry, and stressed the need for India to focus on its large domestic market to sustain growth.

Speaking to the media at the 13th Asian Textile Conference (ATEXCON 2026), the minister highlighted that the textile sector was among the first to be affected by rising trade barriers.

"Over a period of a year or so, when the USA imposed high tariffs, the first industry which got impacted was textiles. And now that the new crisis has come, we have to really see that we can't stop this industry," he said.

He emphasised that India has the necessa...