Brazil and Mexico are forecast to lead the growth of the Peruvian apparel sector in 2013, and to an extent, this would assuage the fall in exports to the US, Pedro Gamio, president of the garment committee of Asociación de ...
Tags: Apparel Export, apparel sector, apparel
Indian textile and garment manufacturers are eyeing on emerging markets, including South America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Africa, for exports. According to industry representatives, Indian textile sector witnessed a negative ...
Tags: Textile
The textile and clothing sector in Peru has great potential, but the difficult economic environment in major markets, fall in the exchange rate, and growing labour costs are impeding their exports, according to Asociación de ...
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Brazil's garment sector production rose by 5.33 percent year-on-year, while textile sector output declined by 2.83 percent year-on-year, according to a statement released by Associação Brasileira da Indústria ...
On 10-11 April 2013 in Malta, the textile and clothing sector from the Euro-Mediterranean Area will discuss how social dialogue can address skill needs. Representatives of national administrations, industrial associations, trade union and ...
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Bangladesh, the second largest readymade garment (RMG) manufacturer in the world after China, is witnessing a dip in new investments in the field of textile in last two years. Bangladesh apparel makers are worried about the shortage in ...
Tags: textile, RMG makers, textile industry
The Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA) has written to the Indian Government, including the Prime Minister, Finance Minister, Minister of Textiles and Minister for PMO Office, requesting offloading of cotton parked with the ...
Tags: textile mills, cotton, cotton price
Would you believe it if you are told that e-commerce, particularly, the online apparel retail business could more so affect the environment? Well it can to a certain extent. An online apparel retailer ends up making around 132 ...
South African textile and apparel industry is facing several challenges, including macroeconomic influences of Asian imports and the domestic labor challenges, and hence the performance of the industry may reamin stable in the coming years, ...
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The wages in the Sri Lankan apparel sector have not risen at the same pace as the growth in GDP, export earnings or cost of living, and hence, there is a need to revise the wage formula, a noted economist has said. Speaking at a seminar ...
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As per the latest available data released by WTO Secretariat for the calendar year 2009, 2010 and 2011 the share of Indian textiles and clothing exports in World’s exports were 3.98% , 3.98% and 4.11% respectively and has not been ...
Indian textile and garment industry, a key player in the national economy and the second largest employer of skilled and unskilled workers after agriculture, is on a revival track due to increase in demand of yarns, fabrics and clothing ...
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The Government of Indonesia has launched a blueprint to boost the country’s apparel and fashion industry. The blueprint has been jointly prepared by Indonesian Fashion Designers Association (APPMI) and the Ministry of Tourism and ...
Bangladesh will make an action plan for implementing various compliances related to the readymade garments (RMG) sector. At the Social Compliance Forum (SCF) meeting on RMG sector, chaired by Commerce Minister Ghulam Muhammed Quader, it ...
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The ambitious textile and apparel export target of US$ 95 billion set by the Government under the recently announced Strategic Trade Policy Framework (SPTF) 2012-15 is unachievable, Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers & Exporters ...
Tags: PRGMEA, Apparel, Export Target