Several trade incentives available to the African countries including, African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the Cotonou Agreement with the European Union, and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) agreement, help in the revival of ...
Ethiopian designer Fikirte Addis “feels like she is ready to fly.” A one-time child psychologist with a passion for design, Addis took a risk in 2009 by launching her own brand. Since that time, she has won the Origin Africa ...
Tags: Fikirte Addis, Textile
Eastern African countries including, Kenya and Tanzania, are focusing on cotton sector for the economic revival of the region and they have introduced several policies and incentives to improve cotton production in the region. Speaking to ...
Tags: Cotton, Economic Revival
Nigeria’s Bank of Industry (BOI) has disbursed about 60 percent of the N100 billion Textile Revival Fund, according to the bank’s managing director Evelyn Oputu. Ms. Oputu, who is currently attending the 20th Anniversary ...
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
Departing U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced today that Deputy United States Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis will assume the post of Acting United States Trade Representative effective Friday, March 15, 2013, as Ambassador ...
Tags: Textile, Textile Industry
The Federal Government of Nigeria aspires to see tremendous growth in the country’s textile and garment industry, according to Mr. Olusegun Aganga, Minister of Trade and Investment. Addressing the valedictory function of the ...
Tags: Nigeria, textile industry, garment industry
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which enables countries in Africa to export over 4000 products, including hundreds of apparel products, quota-free and duty-free to the US, has been benefitting the Chinese textile and apparel ...
Source Africa, the biggest textiles and apparel trade event in Africa, has been launched in Cape Town, South Africa. The trade fair, which will take place from 9 – 12 April 2013 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, will ...
Tags: textiles trade, apparel trade, trade exhibition, textile sector
Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Demetrios Marantis will visit the United Aryan Ltd. (UAL) factory in Nairobi, Kenya on today, October 22, 2012. The visit will highlight the recent passage by the U.S. Government of a bill that ...
Tags: apparel factory, Kenya, third country fabric provision
The textile and apparel sector from around 40 African countries, which make up for the African Growth Opportunities Act (AGOA), expects to attract investment from local as well as overseas entrepreneurs, but mainly from the Asian continent. ...
Tags: textile, apparel, garment exports, duty-free apparel
The COMPETE Trade Hub recently returned from a high-profile Origin Africa awareness and market linkages campaign in Europe and Asia. The Trade Hub participated in three international trade shows and organized Origin Africa Pavilions in the ...
Tags: USAID, COMPETE Trade Hub, textile, fashion trends
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou has said that entrepreneurs from his country have invested over E5.5 billion in Swaziland, which includes setting up of 22 Taiwanese firms comprising mainly of textile and garment factories. In his welcome ...
Tags: Ma Ying-jeou, Mswati III, AGOA, friendly ties