The readymade garment industry of Bangladesh is suffering from a severe image crisis in the international markets because of concerns about labor safety arising from recent fire incidents in two garment factories, which resulted in a ...
Tags: Garment Sector, Garment
Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ICCI) organized a webinar on US imports from Pakistan under Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Program in collaboration with US Embassy and Ministry of Commerce. Speaking on the occasion, ...
Tags: Scope, GSP Scheme, Textiles
The garment manufacturers of Pakistan are pinning hope on the approval of the European Union’s Generalized System of Preference Plus (GSP Plus) status to their country by the EU Commission at Brussels. According to the industry ...
Tags: Garment Makers, Garment, Apparel
The Union Minister for Commerce, Industry & Textiles Shri Anand Sharma conveyed to the Trade Ministers of various African countries that despite the gloomy global environment, where there has been a contraction of trade, and with ...
The Indian textile industry, employing over 100 million people directly and indirectly has been looking for various schemes and assistance in the Union Budget 2013-14 to regain its global competitiveness which faced the worst ever crisis in ...
Tags: textile industry, Union Budget, SIMA
Cambodian garment industry is attracting huge foreign investments due to tax incentives and duty free access to world’s major markets like the US and the UK. In a conversation with fibre2fashion, the business development manager of ...
Tags: garment sector, garment industry, Garment Manufacturers
Gildan Activewear Inc., Montreal, has finalized the acquisition of CanAm Yarns LLC — its 50-percent-owned yarn-spinning joint venture with Frontier Spinning Mills Inc., Sanford, N.C. — and is investing approximately $85 million ...
Tags: Gildan Activewear, acquisition, CanAm Yarns
Montreal-based branded basic apparel manufacturer Gildan Activewear Inc. has finalized the acquisition of CanAm Yarns LLC (CanAm) — its 50-percent-owned yarn-spinning joint venture (JV) with Frontier Spinning Mills Inc., Sanford, N.C. ...
The Government of Bangladesh has demanded rollback of the 17.5 percent duty levied by Turkey on readymade garment (RMG) imports from Bangladesh, claiming that the levy has badly impacted its sales to European countries. The demand was ...
Tags: readymade garment, RMG, apparel exports, exports of knitwear
The much awaited trade concession package from the European Union has finally come through for Pakistan, but with safeguards, which does not make the package attractive anymore, says a leader of a Pakistan apparel trade lobby group. ...
Tags: trade concession package, safeguards, concession, duty-free access
The Philippine Government is expected to grant duty-free access to all US-made textiles, yarn and fabrics in exchange for the duty-free access of Philippine garments to that market. This has transpired as Philippines Department of ...
Tags: duty-free access, US-made textiles, garments, DoIT
To prop up mutual trade and investment in the textile and clothing sectors of their respective countries,apex apparel bodies of China and Bangladesh have inked two separate MoUs,The Financial Express reported.Deputy Director of China ...
Tags: textile and clothing sector, MoUs, mutual trade, investment
The implementation of European Union’s Autonomous Trade Preference (ATP) Scheme from November this year is expected to boost Pakistan’s textile exports to the EU countries. Pakistan’ textile exports to the EU would ...
Pakistani textile exports to the EU are likely to rise by 30 percent, due to the EU granting duty-free access to 75 Pakistani items, mostly textiles and apparels. Optimum utilization of the existing capacity could boost textile and ...
Tags: textile exports, textiles, textile market, textile industry
12 hand-picked Peruvian textile and garment suppliers will be showcased to buyers and press in London for the first time from 4th to 5th October 2012. Promperu,the Peruvian Commission for the Promotion of Tourism and Exports,has ...