The European Branded Clothing Alliance (EBCA), the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), and the United States Fashion Industry Association (USFIA) have hailed the commitment by the European Union and the United States to conclude ...
Thailand’s Dept. of Industry and Trade office attributes the footwear exports gains to changes to the Generalized System of Preferences on custom duties granted by the EU in Q1 and ongoing economic recoveries in the U.S. and European ...
Economists at the World Trade Organization (WTO) have downwardly revised their world trade growth estimate for 2015 to 4 percent from the previous estimate of 5.3 percent. For 2014 also, the WTO has reduced its world trade growth ...
Tags: world trade growth, GDP growth
The exports of apparel form India shot up by 17.9 percent in the first five months of the ongoing financial year that began on April 1, 2014, according to the data from the Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC). In April-August 2014, ...
Tags: apparel exports, Apparel
Due to the Russian sanctions, tens of thousands of Spain farmers can't get the EU's rescue and had to face bankruptcy risk. So in view of this situation, seeking alternative market is particularly important. According to the report, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, stone fruit, grapes, peaches
Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, reported that in August of the current year the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the European Union member states (EU-28) was 10.1 percent, the lowest value since ...
Tags: Economy, Unemployment Rate
Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Fall Conference & 71st IREPAS Meeting in Berlin, Kim Marti, international sales director of Spanish steel producer CELSA Group, said that the key risks to the global economy, such as geopolitical tensions ...
The SteelOrbis 2014 Fall Conference & 71st IREPAS Meeting got underway in Berlin today, September 29, with the participation of almost 300 executives, including 82 representatives from 43 steel producer companies from a total of 21 ...
The fire performance of Palusol fire protection panels has recently been given the top A1 rating for construction products under European DIN EN 13501-1, which means that Palusol is now classified as a “non-combustible” ...
In August this year, new commercial vehicle registrations increased by 6.1 percent year on year in the European Union, totaling 104,686 units, registering growth for the 12th consecutive month, according to the European Automobile ...
Tags: Commercial Vehicle, Automobile
The two companies will collaborate to resolve some of the authentication coding challenges created by the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (EU FMD) and the Delegated Acts, set for 2018. The EU FMD is calling for the serialisation of every ...
In the January-August period of this year, world pig iron production amounted to 796.12 million mt, rising by 2.09 percent compared to the same period of 2013, according to the preliminary data covering 38 countries accounting for ...
The Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Zimbabwe, is set to launch Zimbabwe’s Cotton-to-Clothing (C2C) export strategy at the 5th Clothing Indaba in Bulawayo, with support from the International Trade Centre (ITC) and funding from the ...
Tags: Zimbabwe, Export Strategy, Textile
Packaging services provider Packaging Coordinators (PCI) has acquired pharmaceutical services provider Biotec for an undisclosed amount. Headquartered in Wales, Biotec is a provider of clinical trials and temperature controlled ...
Global crude steel production in August this year increased by 1.4 percent year on year to 134.96 million metric tons, while a 1.36 percent decline was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel). ...
Tags: crude steel, steel production