India has vowed to step up its collaboration with Egypt in the textiles sector and said talks were on to increase textile machinery supplies to the Arab country. <br/><br/>India's Ambassador to Egypt Sanjay Bhattacharyya said this ahead of the Fashion and Tex Exhibition that opens in Cairo today. He said, India stands ready to work with Egypt towards attainment of its new textile policy goals in production as well as in trade and investments.<br/><br/>Thirty-seven Indian textile companies will participating in the exhibition that will run till Saturday at the Cairo International Convention Centre. Egypt has traditionally been one of India's most important trading partners in that region. During the last financial year, bilateral trade between India and Egypt was about 3.23 billion US dollars.