The Senate is expected to vote next week on an immigration bill, and it is likely to pass after one last fight to give U.S. workers hiring preference over foreigners with H-1B visas. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Sherrod Brown ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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, ...
The proposed Asean framework for Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) between the 10-nation Asean grouping and six other counties, viz., Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea, will benefit Vietnam's ...
Tags: Garment, Textile, Apparel, Accessories
New trade talks between the EU and US will create growth opportunities for Europe's food and drink industry, claim manufacturers, who together exported £11.67bn of food and drink to the country last year. Trading places: New US/EU ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Chinese oil and gas producers show rising interest in oil exploration and development in the arctic regions nowadays. An insider with China Petroleum Corp. (Sinopec Group), one of the top two oil and gas producers in the Chinese mainland, ...
India is considering to lower customs duties on wines and spirits bought from the European Union to 40% from the current 150% under a bilateral free trade agreement being negotiated between the two. The offer by Commerce and Industry ...
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Northwest European acrylonitrile-styrene-butadiene and polystyrene producers are raising their competitiveness in order to retain market share in the fast growing Turkish market, market sources said this week. European producers are ...
Tags: acrylonitrile-styrene-butadiene, polystyrene producers
The newly appointed chairman of the Japan Gas Association said Thursday that the recent approval by the US Department of Energy for LNG shipments from the Freeport LNG project in Texas to countries that do not have free-trade agreements ...
Tags: DOE Export, Chemicals
Malaysia's re-elected Prime Minister Najib Razak announced yesterday that foreign investors and fund managers would be given five-year multiple entry visas, and that overseas corporations trading in oil and related products in the country ...
Tags: Najib Razak, Foreign Investors
Euratex held its General Assembly the 29th May in Brussels in presence of industrialists, Textile and Clothing (T&C) experts and EU officials under the theme “Textile and Clothing Industry in a changing economic environment”. ...
Tags: Euratex, Economic Environment
Cass Johnson, President of the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), released the following statement after the Senate Finance Committee’s unanimous voice vote in support of the nomination of Michael Froman to serve as ...
Tags: NCTO, Ustr Nominee
Last week, Latin American neighbours Panama and Colombia concluded negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA), after seven rounds of negotiations, which began in 2010. The negotiations concluded after the Colombian Government made ...
Tags: Apparel Exports, FTA
China's financial center Shanghai is expected to be approved to open a free trade zone in July at earliest to test free dialogue of renminbi and cross-border capital flow, said sources. The Shanghai free trade zone project includes the ...
Tags: Free Trade Zone, economy
Cass Johnson, President of the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), released the following statement in anticipation of the Senate Finance Committee’s confirmation hearing on the nomination of Michael Froman to serve as ...
Freeport-McMoRan Energy has missed its deadline and can no longer build an onshore Alabama pipeline to a longer offshore pipeline that would have brought liquefied natural gas from an import terminal in the Gulf of Mexico, the US Federal ...