erode expressing solidarity with the protesting retail textile owners in the district wholesale textile shop owners across erode downed their shutters on saturday as part of a threeday protest against the implementation of goods and services tax gst the wholesale textile shops would remain closed on sunday and monday as wellretail textile shops have been shut since friday opposing the tax imposed on the industry at various stages of production the retail shops would remain closed on sunday toothe central government they said imposed 518 gst at all stages of textile business assuming dyeing bleaching colouring and stitching involved in making a yarn into a cloth were separate segmentsthe wholesale textile shop owners said the sum total of all the taxes would come around more than 23 on an average and as a result both the material and the production cost would skyrocketthey said the gst regime would hit all the small and medium players related to the textile industry hardlymore than 300 wholesale textile shops in erode city and more than 10000 retail shops across the district remained closed on saturday they said business to the tune of rs 30 crore will be affected each day of the strikemeanwhile weavers in erode namakkal and salem districts have been on strike for the past one week opposing gst the weavers said it would add pressure in procedural difficulties the gst will add not less than 25 taxes on our produce against the existing zero percentage they saidaround 90000 weaving units across the three districts have downed their shutters to extend their support to the textile industry in its fight against gst weavers threatened to intensify the protest if they were not exempted from gst