While US policymakers, legislators and others are focused on whether the fundamentals of US gas market would change significantly if large volumes of LNG are exported, there are emerging questions about the federal government's ability to ...
Tags: LNG Exports, Chemicals
The EU and Japan finished the first week-long round of negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) less than a month after negotiations were officially launched. The EU team is headed up by Mauro Petriccione, Director in the European ...
Tags: Textile
The NSW Government has leased Port Botany and Port Kembla on a 99-year contract. Following a six-month competitive bidding process, the 99-year lease of state-owned port assets at Port Botany and Port Kembla has been awarded to the NSW ...
Cotton Council International (CCI), through its COTTON USA Sourcing Program, will host a booth at the Colombiamoda trade fair in Medellin from July 23-25 to promote U.S. cotton yarns and fabrics. The Sourcing Program will showcase 13 U.S. ...
Tags: Textiles, Colombiamoda Trade Fair
President Barack Obama's nominee for energy secretary, Ernest Moniz, on Tuesday reiterated the Obama administration's position that decisions to license liquefied natural gas exports from the US should be based on a transparent, analytic ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union and India, negotiations for which are currently taking place, would boost textiles and garment trade between the two. Speaking to fibre2fashion, head of International ...
The Indian fiscal year which ended on March 31, 2013, was not a good period for the apparel sector, whether, domestic sales or exports. However, textile goods which include, yarns, fabrics and made-ups did not perform as badly as apparel ...
Haiti became the 31st country to join the TAAT alliance which is seeking strong and fair textile rules in the TPP agreement. Gregor Avril, the Executive Director of the Association of Industries of Haiti said, “We stand with our ...
Tags: fair textile, textile rules, textile
Japan and the European Union (EU) announced on March 25 that the two economies had decided to launch formal trade talks. European Commission (EC) President Jose Manuel Barroso, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and Japanese Prime ...
Tags: Automobile, Auto Parts, Transportation
The EU and Japan officially launched the negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The aim is for a comprehensive agreement in goods, services and investment eliminating tariffs, non-tariff barriers and covering other trade-related ...
Tags: trade, Free Trade, Free Trade Agreement
The Australian Federation of International Forwarders (AFIF) and Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA) have prepared a detailed submission in response to the NSW Draft Freight and Port Strategy focusing on key operational issues. Port expansion ...
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 $16 billion in 2013-14. The meeting was ...
Tags: AEPC, garment exports, garment
The textile industry of Indonesia could witness modest growth in 2013 due to several domestic challenges faced by the textile manufacturers including increasing cost of electricity and minimum wage of workers, coupled with the ongoing ...
The textile and garment exporters of India are pinning hopes on Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and India as it is expected to boost their exports to the EU. Speaking to fibre2fashion, managing director of ...
The Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) has rolled out an ambitious plan to increase India’s apparel exports to US$ 30 billion in three years, AEPC chairman Dr. A Sakthivel has said. Speaking at a function to present awards ...
Tags: AEPC, apparel exports, India