The Government of Karnataka, a state in southern India, through the Department of Handloom and Textiles, has invested Rs. 13 billion under various schemes during the current financial year, reports The Hindu. Addressing a one-day ...
Tags: Textiles Sector, Textile
The expected free trade agreement (FTA) to be signed between Japan and Turkey may help in boosting apparel exports from Turkey, said president of the Japanese Textile Federation Akikazu Shimomura, during a recent visit to the Aegean ...
India and Nigeria need to have closer ties in the textiles sector, Nigeria’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment Olusegun Aganga said during a meeting with business delegates from India in Lagos recently. Mr. Aganga said ...
Tags: cooperat, import tariff structure
The Petrapole Land Customs Station (LCS) at India-Bangladesh border will now be made operational 7 days a week from January 1, 2014, which will benefit the textiles sectors of both the countries. “The move will ease off the way ...
The Turkish apparel and textile sector was represented by 52 firms who showcased their products at the recently held international garment fairs in France, said Uludag Textile Exporters Association (UTIB) chairman Ibrahim Burkay. ...
Tags: apparel, textile sector
Following the Prime Minister (PM) of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif’s decision to provide additional gas supply to the industrial sector, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet has approved the PM’s directive for ...
Tags: Textile Units, Textile
A number of garment factories in Haiti were forced to close last week following protests by workers demanding a higher minimum wage. The workers say a rise in the minimum wage set out last month, and due to come into effect from 1 ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories, garment
The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam, with support from the Vietnamese Embassy in Korea and the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) collaborated with the Korean Textile Association, and organized a seminar in the South ...
Tags: Textiles Sector, Textile
Dr. A Sakthivel, Chairman AEPC, has expressed satisfaction over the exports growth for the month of November 2013. In reaction to the trade data released Chairman AEPC said, “The garment exports have been registering a positive growth ...
Tags: Garment Exports, Apparel
With the intention of expanding trade relations in various sectors, including textiles, a large group of sector-specific business delegation from the Central European country of Hungary will be visiting Pakistan in March 2014, in order to ...
Tags: Textile Trade, Textile
The Pakistan Minister of State for Commerce, Textile & Privatization, Engr. Khurram Dastgir Khan, has successfully concluded his visit to Eastern European countries with his last stop at Poland where he met with Deputy Trade Minister Danuta ...
Tags: GSP+Status, Textile
With the aim of empowering the textile and clothing industry of Pakistan with more knowledge and enabling the entrepreneurs to make smarter choices in order to reap the benefits from the expected European Union (EU) Generalised System of ...
Tags: ITC, Pakistan, Textile&Clothing Sector
The OEKO-TEX Secretariat was established 20 years ago in Switzerland and for this reason, this year's meeting of the OEKO-TEX General Managers on November 14th and 15th took place in Lucerne - at the heart of Europe and Switzerland. With ...
The Uludag Textile Exporters Association of Turkey (UTIB) recently held its 6th edition of the textile and garment sector research and development (R&D) conference in the city of Bursa, with a view to promote training and research in the ...
The textile and apparel industry of the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep is a major contributor towards the country’s economy, as well as its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), said Gaziantep Chamber of Industry (GSO) chairman Adil ...
Tags: Textiles Sector, Textile