The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has unveiled a four-year plan for Pakistan textile industry, and has set the target to double the export figure and reach US$ 26 billion from the current US$ 13 billion, by utilizing the ...
Tags: Textile Exports, APTMA
India’s exports of handicrafts grew by 10 percent year-on-year to US$ 205 million in July 2013 due to the rising demand from markets like US, China and Latin America. According to the data provided by Export Promotion Council ...
Tags: Handicraft, Textile
The opening ceremony of POSCO Assan TST, the Turkey-based stainless steel producing joint venture of South Korean steelmaker POSCO, Turkey's Kibar Holding and Daewoo International has been held on August 15. Posco Assan TST, which will ...
Tags: Annual Exports, Mineral
The Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PRGMEA) has asked the Nawaz Sharif-led Government to soon appoint the Minister of Commerce. It is surprising that the Prime Minister is yet to name a commerce ...
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Indian Textiles Minister K. Sambasiva Rao has urged apparel manufacturers in the country to increase their export target to US$ 20 billion for the current financial year 2013-14. The Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) has raised ...
Tags: Apparel
Indonesian Industry Minister M.S, Hidayat said on Monday that the country has set furniture export target at 2 billion U.S. dollars this year along with recovery in global economy. "The wood-based industry in the country is estimated to ...
Tags: furniture exports
Owing to recovery in demand from the US market, India’s handicraft exports surged 13 percent to US$ 256.8 million in April this year, as against April 2012’s US$ 227.16 million, Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH) ...
Tags: Handicraft Exports, Textile
The exports of woven garments from Bangladesh registered a growth of 13.81 percent year-on-year to total US$ 8.09 billion, during the initial nine months of the current fiscal year that began on July 1, 2013. During the same period, ...
Tags: Woven Garment, Exports
London-listed Bellzone Mining has provided an update on the anticipated production and shipment volumes from the Forécariah joint venture in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa. Bellzone expects to produce and export 800,000 mt to ...
Tags: Bellzone Mining, Mineral, Metallurgy, ForéCariah JV
The ambitious textile and apparel export target of US$ 95 billion set by the Government under the recently announced Strategic Trade Policy Framework (SPTF) 2012-15 is unachievable, Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers & Exporters ...
Tags: PRGMEA, Apparel, Export Target
Garments Exporters Association (GEA) has requested the Government to provide adequate fiscal relief for the garment sector of the textile industry to enable it to face increasing international competition. GEA has pointed out that garment ...
Urging garment and jute entrepreneurs in the country to reduce reliance on traditional export items, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked them to diversify their exports and tap new foreign markets where Bangladeshi products ...
Tags: Bangladesh, Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, garment makers
RBI in its Mid-Quarter Monetary Policy Review: December 2012, made no significant changes today, with cash reserve ratio (CRR) of scheduled banks unchanged at 4.25 per Cent. Consequently, the reverse repo rate under the LAF unchanged at 7.0 ...
Tags: significant changes, marginal standing facility, garment Industry
The Export Promotion Council for Handicraft (EPCH), the nodal body for handicraft in India, eyes to be a beneficiary of a chunk of the Rs. 106 billion investment from Swedish furniture retailer IKEA. EPCH said it was discussing with ...
Tags: EPCH, investment, handicraft in India, IKEA
Bangladesh Garments Accessories and Packaging Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGAPMEA) aims to achieve US$ 12 billion target in export of garment accessories by the year 2018. Mr. Safiullah Chowdhury, chief advisor of BGAPMEA, ...
Tags: Bangladesh, BGAPMEA, export, garment accessories, 2018