Chinese President Xi Jinping. Australian exporters are set to benefit from an historic trade agreement signed between Australia and its largest trading partner, China. This deal, which took nine years of negotiation, represents a victory ...
Tags: PTA, Australian exporters, agriculture
American Apparel & Footwear Association President & CEO Juanita D. Duggan strongly criticized the apparent collapse of a multilateral trade agreement in Geneva yesterday. The 160 member World Trade Organization (WTO) was unable to move ...
The American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) brought more than two dozen apparel, footwear, and retail executives to Capitol Hill this week to lobby for key international trade policies and programs. The visits came as part of ...
The International Trade Centre (ITC), the joint agency of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations, under the supervision of Nepal’s Ministry of Commerce and Supplies will be launching a project next week to boost Pashmina ...
Tags: Pashmina Exports, Textile
The exports of petrochemicals from GCC countries of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE is expected to increase, once the Bali Package is ratified by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) General Council later this year, ...
Tags: Bali Package, Textile
India and Nigeria need to have closer ties in the textiles sector, Nigeria’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment Olusegun Aganga said during a meeting with business delegates from India in Lagos recently. Mr. Aganga said ...
Tags: cooperat, import tariff structure
The American Institute for International Steel (AIIS) released a letter Tuesday applauding the trade facilitation deal reached December 7 by the 159 member countries of the World Trade Organization at the WTO's just-concluded Ninth ...
Tags: Trade Facilitation Agreement, AIIS
In the five-day MC9 and on the extension of December 7 of the Doha Round Negotiations, it is surprisingly reached an early harvest at the last minute. If the Doha Round agreement can be implemented early, it will promote trade facilitation, ...
Tags: China's Exports, Doha Round, economy
The National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) praises the reintroduction of the Textile Enforcement and Security Act (TESA) in the 113th Congress. Congressmen Tom Graves (R-GA-14) and Mike McIntyre (D-NC-7) reintroduced the bill in ...
Tags: Textile Enforcement, Security Act
The National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) applauded the announcement of the reintroduction of the Textile Enforcement and Security Act (TESA). On October 24th, U.S. Senator Kay Hagan toured the Nonwovens Institute at North ...
Tags: Textile
Indian conglomerate Aditya Birla is set to establish a mega food park at Jagdishpur, Amethi district, Uttar Pradesh, through its Aditya Birla Nuvo's unit Indo Gulf Fertilisers, with an investment of INR1.5bn ($24.46m). The Shaktiman Mega ...
The representatives of Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Chile have concluded trade negotiations for Pacific Alliance, at the Ninth Ministerial Meeting of the Pacific Alliance, held in Mexico last month. Peru’s Minister of Foreign Trade ...
Tags: Pacific Alliance, Textile
The Governments of India and Bangladesh have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on textiles sector collaboration, during the visit of Bangladesh’s Minister of Textiles and Jute, Mr. Abdul Latif Siddique, to India. ...
Tags: Textile Sector
“It’s been a very productive week”, said EU Chief Negotiator Ignacio Garcia-Bercero coming out of the talks. “We have been striving already for many months to prepare the ground for an ambitious trade and investment ...
Tags: TTIP Negotiations
Negotiations between the US and Europe to address transatlantic import duties, non-tariff barriers to trade and trade facilitation would lead to the elimination of import duties on the Eur48 billion ($64 billion) worth of chemicals traded ...
Tags: Chemicals