Textile exporters from Pakistan have expressed disappointment on the withdrawal of zero-rating regime for the export-oriented sector stating that the withdrawal is adversely affecting exports at a time when huge amounts of Sales Tax Refunds ...
World cotton trades in the 2013/14 season may be as challenging as it was in the 2012/13. The scenario is a reaction coming from the international demand, except for China, decreases of the worldwide supply, record ending stocks and ...
Tags: Cotton Trade, Textile
Mullen Group announced this week its board has approved its 2014 capital budget of $100 million, about $25 million of which will be allocated to its trucking/logistics segment. The funds will be used to buy new trucks, trailers and ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
China is the top international destination for U.S. soy, importing 849 million bushels of whole U.S. soybeans in the most recent marketing year. It is hard to imagine that number growing, but experts expect U.S. soybean exports to China to ...
Tags: Soybean Exports, Agriculture
A combination of long-term feed price movement and recent stormy winter weather have combined to ignite record-high cattle and beef prices, and between those factors, a lag in cow slaughter and a strong export market have the market on ...
Tags: Beef Prices, long-term feed price
Cattle and beef prices continue to set new records, and not by small margins. This week both slaughter steer prices and beef carcass cutout values blew away last week's record highs. Through Thursday, the 5-area average price for slaughter ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Cattle, beef
In the wake of recently earned Generalized System of Preference Plus (GSP+) status, Rukhsana Shah, Federal Secretary of Textile Industry Division, Pakistan has advised value-added textile entrepreneurs to focus on the Eastern European ...
Tags: Textile, Eastern Europe
The challenge for the textile sector of Argentina is to increase production at a rate of 8 percent per annum, while generating jobs, said Argentine Minister of Industry Debora Giorgi after a meeting between textile industry representatives ...
Tags: Argentine Textile, textile sector
The exports of cotton from Egypt have taken a hit due to a rise in local prices, owing to a drop in domestic cotton production and the lifting of an import ban, reports Ahram Online. Since the beginning of the cotton marketing season ...
Tags: Cotton Exports, cotton production
The United States requested consultations with China on Monday over the latter's implementation of the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB)'s recommendations and rulings in a high-tech steel dispute between the two countries, announced the World ...
Tags: Steel Duties, WTO rulings
Pork exports during November were down 2.9% compared to a year earlier due to almost no pork going to Russia. Pork imports were up 14.3% in November due to more pork from Canada. In November, 22.2% of U.S. pork production was exported. ...
Tags: Pork, Agriculture, Food
Wednesday's Closing Grain and Livestock Futures Mar. corn closed at $4.25 and 3/4, down 5 and 3/4 cents Mar. soybeans closed at $13.18, up 11 cents Mar. soybean meal closed at $434.50, up $4.40 Mar. soybean oil closed at 37.99, up ...
According to related statistics from the Taiwan Industrial Fasteners Institute, Taiwan's total screw exports in 2013 hit a record high of 1.4594 million tons, up by 5.78% from a year earlier. Taiwan’s export of screw reached over than ...
Tags: Screw, Export, Fasteners Institute
The food industry is calling on ASEAN Member States to speed up the harmonisation of food standards across ASEAN to unlock the economic potential of the agri-food sector and accelerate progress towards a single economic community by 2015. ...
China is the world’s largest furniture exporting country; the foreign-trade dependence remained about 25%. In 2012 the export amount of furniture and the parts reached $ 48.824 billion, from 2002 to 2012, the furniture exports ...
Tags: Chinese Furniture