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 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
Textile and garment imports by Spain grew by 3.1 percent to €3.428 billion in the first three months of the current year, compared to imports worth €3.324 billion during the corresponding period of last year, according to the data ...
Despite the increasing production cost and shift in orders by global apparel and textile buyers from China to other Asian countries, several global clothing and textile brands are still sourcing major portion of their clothing from China. ...
Tags: Textile, Apparel and Clothing
Federation Nationale du Textile (FENATEX or National Federation of Textiles) will be organizing the 14th edition of the Euro-Mediterranean area textiles and clothing fair ‘Texmed Tunisia 2013’ from October 2-4 this year. ...
Myanmar's textile exports are set to skyrocket, following reinstating of the trade benefits by the EU under its Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), the Thailand Textile Institute (THTI) has said. According to a Bangkok Post report, ...
Tags: Apparel
By 2025, the Moroccan textile sector is planning to create up to 250,000 jobs and export up to 85 billion dirhams (US$ 9.87 billion) of textile goods, under the “Textile Plan 2025” announced by Abdelkader Amara, the Minister of ...
Tags: Textile Plan 2025, Textile
European textile and clothing companies are looking further afield for growth. The main causes are weak demand in the supply chain and cutbacks by retail buyers and consumers stemming from the eurozone crisis and fiscal tightening by EU ...
Vietnam’s textile and apparel exports are expected to grow by 15 percent during 2013, according to the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS). Vietnamese textile & apparel sector witnessed a rise of 32 percent in ...
Tags: Vietnam Textile, Textile
The recent hike in minimum wages may lead to layoffs in Bolivian textile and apparel sector, El Conglomerado Textil Boliviano (COTEXBO or Bolivian Textile Conglomerate), has said. The textile sector in Bolivia, a land-locked country ...
Tags: Wage Hike, Textile Sector
The Thailand Textile Institute (THTI), the Queen Sirikit Department of Sericulture and the Office of Knowledge Management and Development have united for a research and development project aimed at improving the value propositions of Thai ...
Tags: Thai Textile Institutions, Silk
The textile and apparel manufacturers of Korea are expecting a boost in exports to Turkey, as the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries is scheduled to take effect from May 1, 2013. Korea and Turkey had started ...
Tags: Korean Textile, Textile
Vietnamese textile industry will maintain its growth momentum in second quarter of the current year, according to the Vietnam Textile and Garment Group (Vinatex). Vietnamese textile and garment exports to the US, Japan and South Korea ...
Tags: textile industry, textile
PT TÜV SÜD PSB, an internationally recognized testing body, in collaboration with PT Qualis Indonesia and Nissenken has begun providing testing and certification facility for international standards to the Indonesian textile and ...
Tags: Textile, Textile Testing
The Government of Brazil has temporarily removed the tax on import of cotton for a period of three months from May 1 to July 31, 2013. At a meeting of the Foreign Trade Commission (CAMEX) and the Ministry of Development, Industry and ...