Garment exports from India registered US$ 1.22 billion in February this year, showing a decline of 4.7 percent compared to exports of US$ 1.28 billion made during the same month last year, according to the data from the Apparel Export ...
India Market Days is a project approved by Ministry of Textiles and is funded under the Market Access Initiative (MAI) Scheme of Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India for inviting overseas buyers and buying agents under ...
Due to the withdrawal of the EU GSP Plus (GSP+) trade concession and the ongoing recession in the largest apparel export markets such as the US and the EU, Sri Lankan garment exporters are eyeing on new and emerging markets for exports. ...
Tags: Apparel Exporterr, Eye Emerging, Apparel
Intending to boost its presence in leading European markets, India’s Apparel Exports Promotion Council (AEPC) would participate in the buyer-seller meets scheduled to be held at Copenhagen, Denmark on May 6, at Iksat, Denmark, on May ...
Tags: AEPC, Apparel exporters, Indian Garment
Apparel exporters in Pakistan have expressed unhappiness over the recent imposition of one percent withholding tax on all their purchases by the Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR). Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters ...
Tags: Apparel exporters, FBR, Withholding Tax
AEPC as part of its export promotion initiatives for the first time has organized BSM for apparel and related accessories in New York, USA. The BSM was held between 28th and 29thJanuary 2013 at the Penn Plaza Pavilion, at New York. Ms. ...
Tags: AEPC, export promotion initiatives, apparel
India Ratings’ outlook for cotton textiles remains negative to stable for 2013 on account of subdued demand, although margins are expected to benefit from softening raw material prices. The outlook for synthetic textiles remains ...
Tags: cotton textile, cotton, textiles, cotton prices
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which enables countries in Africa to export over 4000 products, including hundreds of apparel products, quota-free and duty-free to the US, has been benefitting the Chinese textile and apparel ...
Indian textile exporters are concerned about the decline in demand for Indian clothing in international market and they demand incentives from both the Central and state governments to overcome the existing problems faced by the textile ...
Tags: Indian Textile, Indian, Incentives, Govt
The Government of Bangladesh has demanded rollback of the 17.5 percent duty levied by Turkey on readymade garment (RMG) imports from Bangladesh, claiming that the levy has badly impacted its sales to European countries. The demand was ...
Tags: readymade garment, RMG, apparel exports, exports of knitwear
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
Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC), a leading body of Indian apparel exporters, today proposed measures to hike garment exports by 100 percent in 3 years, and 10 percent in the current fiscal year. Dr. A Sakthivel, Chairman AEPC, on ...
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Apparel exporters from Sri Lanka must try to further expand into emerging markets like India and China,A Sukumaran,former chairman of Joint Apparel Association Forum(JAAF)has said. Speaking at the 9th Annual General Meeting of ...
Tags: emerging markets, apparel exporters, JAAF
IHKIB, the apparel exporters association based in Turkey’s capital Istanbul, has unveiled a website to act as a meeting point for exporters, buying offices and suppliers. The association has created the website styleturkish.com, in ...
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Garment manufacturers and exporters in Sri Lanka are worried over the Wages Board's decision to raise the minimum wages in the country by up to 30 percent. Yohan Lawrence,the newly appointed chairman of the Sri Lanka Apparel Exporters ...
Tags: SLAEA, wages, profitability