India's annual rate of inflation, based on monthly wholesale price index (WPI), stood at minus 4.05 per cent for July 2015 (over July 2014), according to the provisional data released by the Office of the Economic Adviser, Ministry of ...
Tags: WPI-Based Inflation, Inflation
India can beat China and Bangladesh in value-added garment exports, according to a top official of Li & Fung, which designs customised supply chain solutions for the world’s most successful retailers and brands. “In the ...
The annual rate of inflation, based on monthly wholesale price index (WPI), stood at minus 2.33 per cent for March 2015 (over March 2014), according to the provisional data released by the Office of the Economic Adviser, Ministry of ...
AC-Automation, a supplier for automated solutions to the textile industry, mainly finds business in India and China with slightly different trends. While Chinese clients mainly ask for fully-automatic solutions, Indian clients asking for ...
Tags: AC-Automation, textile industry, fully-automatic solutions
The Indian and Vietnamese textile and apparel industries are more complementary than competing in nature, and so cooperation would benefit both countries, the Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council of India (SRTEPC) has said. ...
Tags: Textile Sector, textile industries, apparel industries
The new Foreign Trade Policy has come under fire from two major textile trade bodies. The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry or CITI says the new policy has not provided any additional benefits to the textiles sector, though measures ...
Recently, a delegation from the Indian textile industry met Santosh Kumar Gangwar, minister of state for textiles to apprise him of the current as well as post budget scenario of the textile industry. The delegation was made-up of OP ...
Tags: Textile Sector, textile industry
Total apparel imports by the United States stood at $81.780 billion in 2014, showing an increase of 2.49 per cent over imports of $79.797 billion made in 2013, according to the latest Major Shippers Report, released by the US Department of ...
Tags: Apparel Imports, Apparel
The Government of India has agreed to provide all necessary assistance for developing the textile industry in Afghanistan, as per a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the two nations. The MoU was signed by Mazamil ...
Tags: clothing, cotton, man-made fibre, Textile
Indian synthetic fibre and yarn producers have urged the Union Ministry of Finance to abolish excise duty of 12 per cent levied on the industry and bring it at par with the cotton fibre and yarn sector. “This will help the growth of ...
Tags: cotton fibre, yarn sector, Textile
The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has requested the Government to reduce the excise duty on all man-made fibres and filaments, as also their raw materials from the current 12 per cent to 6 per cent. In a pre-Budget ...
Tags: man-made fibres, Apparel, Textile
CEO of Germany based Advansa, Heinz Meierkord has been named the new president of CIRFS, a trade body representing Europe’s €10 billion man made fibres industry. Heinz Meierkord succeeds Giulio Bonazzi, CEO of Aquafil, whose ...
Tags: fibres industry, Textile
The man-made fibre (MMF) industry in India has demanded that the Union Government implement a fibre neutral excise policy and remove bias and anomalies against the MMF industry. The MMG producers, represented by the Association of ...
India’s annual rate of inflation, based on monthly wholesale price index (WPI), dropped to a five-year low of 1.7 per cent for the month of October, 2014 (over October, 2013), according to the provisional data released by the Office ...
Tags: annual rate of inflation, consumer price index, Apparel
All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) chairman, Muhammad Yasin Siddik, has urged the Government of Pakistan to clear the outstanding tax refunds, as committed by the Federal Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Muhammad Ishaq ...
Tags: Textile, tax refunds, Apparel