Congressional leaders released a letter backed by the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) to the United States Trade Representative (USTR) signed by 167 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The letter calls for ...
Tags: textile rules, Yarn Forward
Tourists from China spend the most on buying apparels in Spain, according to ‘The Textile Trade in Figures 2012’ report released by the Spanish Business Association of Textile Trade (Acotex). According to the report, ...
Tags: Apparel, Chinese tourist
Building on the success of the last edition of Texcon 2012, organised in association with Ministry of Textiles, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) North Zone is organizing the second edition of its flagship event on textiles & apparel ...
Tags: Seminar, Textile Sector
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission proposes to authorise a revised version of the Homeworkers Code of Practice for five years. The Code is a mechanism within the textile, clothing and footwear industry designed to assist ...
From 1 to 4 July, a business and institutional mission organized by Italian Trade Promotion Agency and ACIMIT, the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, will be travelling to Ethiopia. The mission is intended to strengthen ...
In recent years there has been a sharp drop in the number of people employed in Zimbabwe’s textile and clothing sector, and the Government is now introducing a cluster based concept to put the industry back on track. Around ...
Tags: Cluster-Based Concept, Textile, Zimbabwe
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission proposes to authorise a revised version of the Homeworkers Code of Practice for five years. The Code is a mechanism within the textile, clothing and footwear industry designed to assist ...
India’s textile hub of Surat is soon likely to get an international fabric resource centre, which would serve as a one-stop solution for weavers and textile traders in the city and surrounding areas. The centre proposed by ...
Tags: Fabric Resource Centre, Textile
Dutch textile and clothing sector bodies Inretail, VGT and MODINT have prepared a joint plan of action for further sustainability of the apparel sector. The action plan was presented to the Netherlands’ Minister of Foreign Trade and ...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has been requested to restore the non-operational textile industries of the country, in order to promote the indigenous fabrics of the West African country. The ongoing decline in the number of ...
Tags: Textile Units, Fabrics
The exports of clothing and textiles from various export processing zones (EPZs) in Dominican Republic amounted to US$ 1.278 billion, according to the statistics released by the National Free Zones Council (CNZFE). As per the data, ...
KappAhl is one of the initiators of SWAR, a Swedish project for cleaner textile production in India. SWAR is a collaboration project between Swedish textile buyers and Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), with support from SIDA. ...
While the Indian textile industry is an important component of the domestic economy, the global importance of the Indian textile sector is steadily growing. And individual companies are quite capable of achieving global success and ...
Tags: India, Textile, Rayon Products
The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has said that the textile mills in the Punjab province of Pakistan are likely to face further losses due to energy crisis in the sector. Spokesperson of APTMA said the electricity ...
Tags: Pakistan, Textile, textile mills
The average retail prices in clothing and textile sector of Brazil have shown a positive change of 10.2 percent year-on-year in April 2013, according to a report released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The ...
Tags: Apparel&Accessories, Brazil, Clothing