France turned out to be the largest destination for Spanish knitwear exports during the first five months of the current year, according to the data released by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. From January to May 2013, ...
The Government of India would soon unveil a modified Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS) with a provision to increase the interest subsidy on power looms from the present 5 percent to 6 percent, Textiles Minister K Sambasiva Rao has ...
Tags: Textile Industry
Noble Foods is investing £9M in an extra egg-packing facility at Witney, near Oxford for its Shell Egg division. The company, a leading supplier of fresh eggs to major retailers, aims to complete the construction project early next ...
Tags: Noble Foods, Food
Governor of Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, Tarso Genro has signed a decree providing for the reduction of value-added tax (VAT) or tax on circulation of goods and services (ICMS tax) from 17 percent to 12 percent on raw materials for ...
Tags: Tax on Textiles, value-added tax
Mexico's increasing competitiveness is expected to be a boon to those companies, including American companies that design the original product and their contract manufacturers – the companies that manufacture the American ...
Tags: Textile Production, Textile
Seoul Semiconductor, a global LED manufacturer, has announced two new mid-power packaged LED lighting products, the 5630C and the 3030. These packaged LEDs have been improved dramatically in terms of luminance efficacy (lm/w) and cost ...
Tags: Seoul Semiconductor, LED lighting
INDA, Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry applauded the July 17 introduction of H.R. 2708, the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB), by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), ...
Tags: Tariff Bill, Textile
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) today welcomed the introduction of the U.S. Job Creation and Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2013 (H.R. 2708), legislation that would reinstate recently expired tariff suspensions on ...
Tags: US Workers, Trade Legislation
The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (TEXPROCIL) will be releasing a Benchmarking Study of Production Costs in India vis-à-vis Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan and Turkey at a function to be held at Hotel Le ...
Tags: Multi-Country Production, Textile
In the year in which Colombia Moda is celebrating its 25th anniversary, 18 Portuguese companies will be present, travelling to Colombia between 23 and 25 july with high expectations and a strong desire to show the best that is produced in ...
Tags: Textile Makers, Colombian Market
Recently, great news come from Baosteel finance company. As the only pilot access network enterprise, officially, Baosteel finance company participate in the People's Bank of China Shanghai headquarters cross settlement comprehensive ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
In order to adapt EU payments market to the opportunities of the single market and to support the growth of the EU economy, the European Commission adopted today a package including: • A new Payment Services Directive ("PSD2") and ...
Since the beginning of this year, with profit making as its aim, Meishan Steel faced up the market, adopted measures actively, speeded up product structural adjustment and achieved fine results. New product development in the first half of ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
The federal government is making one of the most powerful supercomputers in its computing arsenal available to any U.S. businesses that can help make the country more competitive. The system is the 5 petaflop Vulcan (one petaflop equals ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
China on July 19 announced introduction of preliminary anti-dumping duties of up to 57% on polysilicon produced in the US and South Korea from July 24, 2013. REC Silicon was assigned an preliminary anti-dumping duty of 57%. China has ...
Tags: Solar Trade Disputes, REC