The Bhagalpur of Bihar is famous worldwide for its distinctive type of tasar silk and coarse varieties of silk fabrics. The silk handloom weavers of Bhagalpur are facing stiff competition from power loom and mill sector due to high ...
Tags: Silk Industry, Apparel
The Embassy of Honduras in Spain organized a high-level forum to promote the textile and other industries of the Central American country in Spain, in view of the European Union-Central American Association Agreement (EU-CAAA), the trade ...
Tags: Textile
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) and more than 40 other associations are urging the State Department to move ahead toward completion of the Keystone XL pipeline. In a letter sent Tuesday to Secretary of State John Kerry, in ...
Tags: Steel products, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The China government has imposed anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariffs on solar-grade polysilicon imported from the US, Europe and South Korea, but much of the US-produced polysilicon has been imported through export processing zones ...
Tags: Anti-Dumping, Solar-Grade Polysilicon, Solar
A ban on the sale of inefficient lamps in the United Arab Emirates comes into effect on 1 July. The move is expected to save Dh668 million (£106.8 million) on energy bills annually. The ban is part of the UAE's indoor lighting ...
Tags: Inefficient Lamps, Lamb
The U.S. is looking for concessions from China to kick start international negotiations on liberalizing trade in high-technology products. Trade Representative Michael Froman told reporters the U.S. wants to resolve differences with China ...
Tags: liberalizing trade, business, economy
For the European coatings industry, REACH, the seven-year-old European Union's legislation on the registration, evaluation and authorization of industrial chemicals, has been posing major difficulties. However the Biocidal Products ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coating
Every year when the new terms begin,there must be a economic trend in the stationery market, many parents start to buy new staionery for kids, even though some parents want their children more frugal orally, but to purchase some high-priced ...
Tags: Stationery, Stationery Market
Now that the world has come to rely heavily on the Asian economy, countries in the region need to contribute to its stability if they wish to win investor confidence. One company acutely aware of this is General Motors. America's largest ...
Tags: Asian Economy
When the UK government's plans to introduce aversion packaging on cigarettes began its fight with Big Tobacco at the beginning of June, a battle broke out in Australia too. It took two weeks for the Australian government to quash it. By ...
The Oxford city council has announced plans to prepare new packaging law in a bid to reduce non-biodegradable litter in the city. The city council has proposed new license conditions, under which street food vendors will be ordered to ...
The Portland City Council has voted in a bid to ban the usage of foam packaging in stores as well as restaurants so as to cut down trash that is polluting waterways. The two 6-3 votes will see the ban of foam packaging and enactment of a ...
The New Brunswick government in Canada has introduced new laws in a bid to ensure all products that are labeled as organic are in accordance with national standards. With the latest move, all the producers are required to obtain ...
Tags: Food Label, Organic Food
There are indeed no rules to stop ecig retailers and companies from selling and marketing their products anyway they like such as the use of cartoon eliquid label. One company to have involved itself in controversy because of this marketing ...
Tags: e cig, e cigarette, Electronic cigarettes, E liquid
The Government of Russia is aiming to increase the share of local goods in the country’s domestic textile market to 50 percent, from the current share of less than 35 percent, reports Novosti news agency. At present, Russian made ...
Tags: Textile Market, Russian Market