Major textile associations of El Salvador have shown support for the hike in minimum wages in the country, as suggested in a proposal by the National Association of Private Enterprise (ANEP). In view of the economic situation of the El ...
Tags: Textile
The EcoChic Design Award is a sustainable fashion design competition educating and enabling emerging designers to create mainstream clothing with minimal textile waste. Now in its fourth cycle, The EcoChic Design Award 2013 is expanding to ...
Tags: Textile, Textile Industry
The exports of textiles and garments from Tunisia, the smallest country in North Africa, increased by 7.06 percent to 472 million dinars, during the initial three months of 2013, compared with the corresponding period of last year. From ...
Bolivia’s fifth international textile fair Fitex 2013, which serves as a meeting ground for the medium, micro and small entrepreneurs of the textile and garment industry value chain, is going to take place from May 16, 2013, in La ...
Tags: Textile, Textile Industry
The exports of textiles and apparel from Spain increased by 8.9 percent year-on-year to €10.423 million in 2012, which is a new record, according to the latest data released by Consejo Intertextil Español (CIE or Spanish ...
The imports of textiles and apparels by the US increased in January 2013, with Vietnam and Bangladesh turning out to be the fastest growing suppliers to the western nation. The overall textile and apparel imports by the US grew by 3.7 ...
The Latin American country of Colombia has announced imposition of US$ 4 per kg tariff on imports of textiles and apparels into the country. The announcement was made by President Juan Manuel Santos during the inauguration of Colombiatex ...
Tags: Colombia, Duty, Imported Clothing
Steps are being taken to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the area of textiles and clothing between India and Sri Lanka, Mr. Anand Sharma, India's Minister of Commerce, Industry and Textiles, informed Sri Lanka's ...
Tags: MoU, cooperation, textiles, clothing, MoU deal
AusIndustry, the Australian Government’s specialist program delivery division, has invited applications for the eighth round of its annual Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) Small Business Program (SBP), which aims to boost the ...
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The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) will take its case to Canberra calling on the federal Government to reverse last week’s decision to slash $7 mill from a targeted program for retrenched workers in TCF ...
Tags: TCFUA, TCF industry, dramatic cut, redundant workers
Malaysian textile and clothing exports are set to double to an annual value of US$7.5 billion by 2020 after advancing strongly in 2011, according to a report in Issue No 158 of Textile Outlook International from the global business ...
Tags: textile exports, clothing exports, textile industry, clothing industry
The textile sector of Pakistan would soon start benefiting as the autonomous trade preferences (ATPs) granted by the EU would be implemented within a month’s time, German Ambassador to Pakistan, Dr. Cyrill Nunn, said while speaking at ...
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The Gillard Government will invest $3.7 million (GST exclusive) to support four new projects to enhance the competitiveness of Australia's Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) sector. New projects - including developing a material for ...
Tags: Aussie Govt Extends Assistance, Textile, GST exclusive
Through the participation at the upcoming Australia International Sourcing Fair (AISF) 2012, the Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) Council of Fiji is planning to make further headway in the global apparel and fashion industry. ...
Tags: AISF, Textile, Clothing, Footwear, apparel, fashion industry
Expecting comparatively lower sales during the approaching holiday season, US retailers have imported lesser quantity of textiles during the month of September 2012. The overall US textile and garment imports declined by 1.3 percent ...
Tags: OTEXA, garment import, textile import