Chairman AEPC Dr. A Sakthivel commenting on the trade data released by commerce secretary for the month of May 2013 stated that, “Garment Sector continues to do well and is on positive trend. The better compliance practices ...
Tags: Apparel&Accessories, Textile, India
The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs announced a $2.5 million competitive grant solicitation to fund improvements in the enforcement and monitoring of fire and building safety standards to better protect ...
Tags: Fire&Building Safety, Textile
Australia’s leading wool company Woolmark has embarked on a plan to help Vietnam’s garment sector produce woolen products and thereby increase the sector’s competitiveness and profits. Speaking at a press conference in ...
Tags: Woolen Garments, Apparel
In a major boost to the Bangladesh readymade garment sector, Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has announced reduction of supplementary duty (SD) on import of woven fabrics to 20 percent, in 2013-14 Budget. Presenting the Budget ...
Tags: Fabrics, Textile, Bangladesh
The Government of Mexico and representatives of Mexican textile and apparel associations have expressed confidence that they would be able to resolve the ongoing trade dispute with China in three months time, in view of the agreements ...
Tags: Textile
The European countries are happy with the measures taken by the Bangladesh Government to ensure workplace safety in the country’s readymade garment manufacturing (RMG) units, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has said. ...
Tags: Apparel
China, the global leader in textile and apparel manufacturing, is suffering from high labor cost and in order to reduce the impact of increasing production cost, the country’s textile and garment manufacturers should focus on quality ...
Tags: textile, apparel manufacturing
The garments factories located in Western and Eastern Java of Indonesia have opted for relocation to central Java because of its cheaper labour costs. Major reason cited for the relocation of garment factories to central Java is that the ...
Tags: Garment Units, Lower Labour Costs
The textile and apparel exports of Botswana, a landlocked country located in Southern Africa, may continue to decline due to the withdrawal of tax incentives by the US and the EU under the Financial Assistance Policy (FAP) as the country is ...
Tags: Botswana, Textile, Tax Incentives
Laurent Lamothe, the Prime Minister of Haiti, has urged Brazilian companies operating in the textile and garment sector to invest in Haiti. Paying an official visit to Brazil, Prime Minister Lamothe met Mr. Paulo Skaf, president ...
Tags: Haitian PM, Apparel, Brazilian
The number of Spanish citizens buying apparel online increased by 12.5 percent year-on-year to 2.4 million in 2012, according to a report released by Kantar Worldpanel, a leading market and consumer research firm. The report titled "The ...
Tags: Apparel
At the initiative of Dr. A. Sakthivel, Chairman-AEPC, an Inter-Ministerial Workshop was organized under the Chairmanship of Shri Ajit Seth, IAS, Cabinet Secretary, Govt. of India. The meeting was attended by Secretary (Textiles), Finance ...
The country's apex trade body for garment manufacturers instructed its member factories in Ashulia to prepare a biometric database of their workers within three months. "We have been trying to make a central workers' database for a long ...
Indonesia, one of the leading textile and apparel platforms in the Southeast Asian region, could become the new destination for the global apparel buyers after China, mainly due to low production cost and availability of cheap labor. ...
Dr. A Sakthivel, Chairman AEPC, on behalf of the entire Textiles Industry has complimented Shri Anand Sharma for bringing in the favorable Foreign Trade Policy and timely interventions that lead to this turn around in the exports of RMG and ...
Tags: AEPC Chairman, Trade Policy