All GSP eligible merchandise including textiles will benefit from the US government's announcement of extending the benefit under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) to developing countries. In a notice issued on 28 July, the ...
Tags: textiles, GSP programme
The commerce ministry is considering interest subsidy benefits for textile sector including garments to arrest falling exports, according to media reports. The interest subvention scheme of 3 per cent ended on March 31, last year. Under ...
Tags: Textiles Sector, subsidy benefits
The European Union (EU) is set to lift the ban on Indian Alphonso mango imports, paving the way to resume trade in the UK and other member states. EU has suspended mango imports from India in May last year after finding fruit flies in ...
Tags: mango imports, fruit flies, Agriculture
A joint memorandum has been submitted to the Union Commerce Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman by various Indian textile associations, seeking additional two years time to fulfill export obligation under the export promotion capital goods (EPCG) ...
Tags: textile associations, Textile
The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) in a statement said it has deferred till further orders the procedure it had mandated earlier, to export organic cotton made textiles. Earlier, the DGFT had mandated a December 18, 2014 ...
Exports of Indian yarn have been steadily growing in the past three years and have now touched 33 percent of overall yarn production in fiscal year 2013-14 from 26 percent in 2011-12. According to yarn production and export figures ...
When it comes to manufacturing, supplying, exporting and importing, India comes first in all these. Indian export and import chemical business becomes one of the global hubs for traders in the past two years. Indian chemical industry is one ...
A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals. A Food Safety News investigation has documented that millions of pounds of ...
Tags: honey, Chinese honey, food safety
Exports of jute products from India is expected to reach Rs. 28 billion in value during the 2013-14 fiscal year, owing to the increasing demand for jute from the West, said Beela Rajesh, executive director, Handloom Export Promotion Council ...
Tags: jute products, Textile
With the view of exploring the potential of expanding trade in Latin American countries particularly Chile, the Indian Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH) recently organized the 4th edition of Buyer-Seller-Meet (BSM) in the ...
Tags: Textile
Mr. M Rafeeque Ahmed, President, Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) while commenting on the expansion in the interest-subvention scheme including 6 tariff lines for textiles including made-ups and 101 tariff lines in case of ...
Tags: Aid Textiles, FIEO
Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that in the first three months of this year its subsidiary Shijiazhuang Iron and Steel Co. exported 82,000 mt of finished steel, up 16 percent year on year. ...
Tags: Shijiazhuang Steel, Finished Steel, Mineral
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 ...
Tags: India, Apparel, FTP Annual Supplement
There will be a very healthy competition for attracting investment in the textile sector between the western Indian state of Gujarat and the central state of Madhya Pradesh (MP), according to an expert. “The Government of Gujarat ...
Tags: Gujarat, MP, investment, textile sector
Italian brand Fiat will potentially look at exporting vehicles from its Indian operations to Australia in an attempt to increase traction and improve availability of right-hand-drive cars for our market. Speaking with the media at ...