The two-day Global Cotton Summit Bangladesh-2015, being jointly organised by the Bangladesh Cotton Association (BCA) and Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA), will take place on 20-21 March, 2015, in Dhaka. The summit will be ...
Tags: Global Cotton Summit, Textile Mills, Cotton
The Pakistan ministry of textiles is mulling ways to persuade the Turkish government to waive off 42.2 per cent safeguard measures duty that is being currently imposed on Pakistan’s apparel imports. According to media reports, ...
Tags: Textiles, apparel imports
The yet to be finalised free trade agreement (FTA) with Turkey will increase textile exports from Pakistan, commerce minister Khurram Dastgir Khan has said. In a statement, the minister said the government would hold extensive ...
Tags: Textile Exports, Textile
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has decided to pursue dispute settlement consultations with the Government of China at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) concerning China’s “Demonstration Bases-Common Service ...
The exports of garments and textiles from Cambodia grew marginally by 1.07 per cent to US$ 4.521 billion in the first eleven months of 2014, compared to exports of $4.473 billion made during the same period of 2013, according to the ...
Tags: Garment Exports, Textile Exports
Pakistan’s ministry of textile industry has announced the long-awaited Textile Policy 2014-19, which sets annual exports target of US$ 26 billion by 2019. “The annual exports target of $26 billion by 2019 is ambitious but ...
Tags: Textile Policy, Textile
The Government of Nigeria has unveiled a new National Cotton, Textile and Garment (CTG) Policy aimed at revitalising and boosting the development and growth of the country’s cotton, textile and garment industry. Launching the ...
Tags: cotton, textile, garment industry
The Karachi Cotton Association (KCA) has warned all Pakistani textile exporters to comply with European Union measures regarding exporting goods in wooden pallets, lest it impose a ban on exports. “In a statement, KCA urged all ...
Tags: methyl bromide, wooden pallets, Textile
Faisalabad-based textile exporters were invited to participate in an upcoming international event of Turkey-World Trade Bridge-2015 being held in March 17-18, 2015 at Istanbul, Turkey. The trade show is expected to offer Pakistani ...
Tags: ready-made garments, textiles, home textiles, Textile
In the last five months of 2014, Ethiopia imported more than 3,000 tons of cotton to meet the demand of domestic textile industry, according to the Textiles Industry Development Institute (TIDI). Ethiopian Government resorted to ...
Tags: Textile Industry, raw material, 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 textile industry of the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu aspires to climb up the textile value chain and realise its true potential for which it is depending upon the central government, said an official of a trade body. D Prabhu, ...
The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) in a statement said it has deferred till further orders the procedure it had mandated earlier, to export organic cotton made textiles. Earlier, the DGFT had mandated a December 18, 2014 ...
Textiles has the lion’s share in India’s exports from labour intensive sectors, according to data from the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S), Kolkata, under the Ministry of Industry and ...
Tags: Labour Intensive, textile sector
For each of the three preceding fiscal years, India has overachieved it targets set for textile exports, Minister of Textiles, Santosh Kumar Gangwar said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha. In fiscal year 2011-12, India exported ...
Tags: textile exports, Textile