Taiwan-based makers from the LED lighting sector have been tapping emerging markets, including Indonesia, Thailand, India, Russia and Brazil, as they face fierce competition in North America, Europe, Japan and China, according to industry ...
Tags: LED packaging, LED Lighting
A Filipino company has outlined plans to invest approximately $100m in a food processing plant in American Samoa. The development is expected to create nearly 1,000 jobs for locals. Construction work in slated to commence early next year, ...
Tags: American Samoa, Food Processing Plant, Food
After the success of its first only-by-invite edition in March 2014, Denimsandjeans.com Bangladesh is ready to host the second edition of the show on October 15 and 16, 2014 at Hotel Radisson Blu in Dhaka - Bangladesh. "This edition will ...
Tags: Textile, denim apparel
Heineken global duty free has launched a new, 100% recyclable draught technology called BrewLock that delivers the draught beer at brewery quality to consumers on cruise lines and ferries. The new technology will do away with the need ...
To boost Japanese investment in Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Government will allocate a separate industrial zone for Japan. This was revealed by Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed at a press conference, who also said that the Government also ...
Tags: Bangladesh Government, Separate Industrial Zone, Apparel
In order to sustain the employment of people working in the textile and apparel industries in Nicaragua, the Nicaraguan Association of Textile and Apparel (Anitec) is ardently attempting to attract new investors, according to an El Nuevo ...
Tags: Anitec, New Investors, Textile
Six US and African based textile and apparel trade bodies, including the United States Fashion Industry Association (USFIA), called for renewal of the African Growth & Opportunity Act (AGOA), expiring on September 30, 2015. They requested ...
Tags: USFIA, Apparel, Accessories
The Ministry of Textiles has fixed an export target of USD 45 billion for textile products for the year 2014-15, in consultation with the Industry. The target has not been revised. Exports of textile products are supported through ...
Tags: Textile Export, Textiles
The Punjab regional chapter of the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has requested Finance Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar to direct the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to start processing the sales tax refund claims of textile ...
Tags: AOTMA Punjab, Sales Tax Refunds, Textile
The Punjab regional chapter of the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has requested Finance Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar to direct the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to start processing the sales tax refund claims of textile ...
Tags: APTMA Punjab, Apparel, Accessories
A recently published report titled ‘The Fiber Year 2014’, the world survey report on textiles & nonwovens, states that the fiber production volume in the world textile industry in 2013 rose by 2.8% to 92.3 million tonnes. This ...
Tags: Fiber Production, 2.8%, Textile
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has come out strongly in favour of extension of the Tariff Preference Level (TPL) for another 10 years at the request of the Nicaraguan textile and clothing industry. Jodi Hanson Bond, vice president of the ...
Tags: Extension, Apparel, Accessories
The Phu Hung textile plant, being constructed in Phu Bai Industrial Park, in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue, will commence operations in August this year, reports Viet Nam News. The Vietnam National Textile and ...
Australia's Antidumping Commission has announced that it has initiated an antidumping (AD) duty investigating regarding galvanized steel imports from Vietnam and India following an application from Australian steelmaker BlueScope Steel. ...
Tags: Australia, antidumping, Metallurgy, Mineral
A proposed free trade agreement between Canada and South Korea would remove the current 3% to 8% tariff that Canadian oil and gas producers have to pay for exports into that Asian nation, a Canadian government spokeswoman said Monday. ...
Tags: LNG Exports, Oil Exports