Before the announcement of the Foreign Trade Policy in the first week of April 2013, the Union Minister of Commerce, Industry & Textiles Shri Anand Sharma chaired the Board of Trade meeting. "Recognising the stress that our trade is going ...
Dr. A Sakthivel, Chairman AEPC, on behalf of the entire Textiles Industry has complimented Shri Anand Sharma for bringing in the favorable Foreign Trade Policy and timely interventions that lead to this turn around in the exports of RMG and ...
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The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) welcomed the release of “Imports Work for America,” a study by Trade Partnership Worldwide, LLC, that measures the comprehensive net effect of imports on the U.S. economy. In ...
Mr M Rafeeque Ahmed, President, FIEO said that the Foreign Trade Policy announcement while maintaining stability of the policy provided improvement in it to add to competitiveness. Extension of Zero Duty EPCG Scheme will help in expansion ...
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The predominantly cotton based textile industry in India faced a crisis during 2008-09 due to global recession and again a grave crisis during 2010-11 owing to high volatility in cotton prices and certain external factors. The Government ...
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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
Asia’s biggest confluence of home and lifestyle items - Home Expo India 2013 (HEI-2013) has begun at Expo Mart in Greater Noida, near the capital New Delhi. The second edition of the four-day expo, which was inaugurated by Union ...
Despite lower demand from some of the key Western markets, Indian handicraft exports have achieved the target of US$ 3.3 billion set for fiscal year 2012-13. The items that posted highest year-on-year export growth during the period ...
Tags: Handicraft Exports, Textile
The Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, has sought a financial package for labour-intensive industries like cotton textiles, handlooms and handicraft, in the forthcoming annual supplement to Foreign Trade Policy (FTP), rescheduled to ...
Chairman AEPC, Dr. A Sakthive, in the proposal presented, to Shri Anand Sharma, the Union Minister for Commerce, Industry & Textiles, has made submission for increasing the garment exports to US $16 billion in 2013-14. The meeting was ...
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The annual supplement to India’s foreign trade policy (FTP), likely to be announced in the coming months, will have steps to boost exports, the Ministry of Commerce, has said. Currently, the Ministry is holding consultations ...
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The Cotton textile exports are expected to gain double digit growth this financial year. Our last year’s exports were US$ 8.42 billion and it is expected to be US $ 9.56 billion for the current financial year. The textile industry ...
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Today’s global value chains used by U.S. apparel companies offer job creation opportunities in the United States, according to Analyzing the Value Chain for Apparel Designed in the United States and Manufactured Overseas, a new report ...
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As per the latest available data released by WTO Secretariat for the calendar year 2009, 2010 and 2011 the share of Indian textiles and clothing exports in World’s exports were 3.98% , 3.98% and 4.11% respectively and has not been ...
The Union Minister for Commerce, Industry & Textiles Shri Anand Sharma has welcomed the announcements made by the Finance Minister on textiles sector in his Budget Speech. Shri Sharma, while delivering the keynote address during the one-day ...
Tags: Textiles, Shri Anand Sharma, textiles sector