Volkswagen has secured a €400m loan from the Export Development Canada (EDC), to facilitate expansion of its operations in southern US and Mexico. The financing will allow the automotive giant to offer business opportunities to small ...
The Pakistan Mercantile Exchange (PMEX) has re-launched International Cotton (ICotton) contract which is duly approved by Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), it said in a statement. The contract aims to offer opportunities ...
Tags: PMEX, PMEX ICotton contract, Textile
The Federation of India Export Organisations (FIEO) wants government backing to arrest falling exports.FIEO president SC Ralhan said the trade data for the month of the March, 2015 showed a decline of over 21 per cent in exports and close ...
Tags: Govt Support, Falling Exports
Packaging films producer Thai Film Industries (TFI) is considering setting up a packing film factory in Bangladesh worth $40m. Based in Thailand, TFI specialises in producing BOPP, CPP films, polyethylene terephthalate and metalised ...
Hit by sluggish Chinese demand, India’s cotton export is expected to fall 29 per cent to 7 million bales in the current crop year that ends in September. India has so far exported only 4.5 million bales of cotton this year, media ...
Tags: Chinese demand, cotton export
India and Canada have signed two different memorandum of understanding (MoUs) for skill development in the apparel sector, the apex apparel exporters body, Apparel Export Promotion Council, (AEPC) said in a statement today. The ...
Tags: Apparel Sector, Apparel Skilling
After four days, EFE 2015 closed its doors with a positive outcome on Saturday, 7 March 2015. More than 8,300 visitors from 128 countries came to the EFE exhibition grounds.The Fair attracted trade visitors with more than 44% of it were ...
Whether they are in the lounge, in the kitchen or elsewhere in their homes, Africans are now being given a front-row view of how their world, and the world of trade, is changing. Their guides are the appliances they use to make their ...
According to an Indian Cotton Federation (ICF) report for the fortnight ended March 31, 2015, around 31 million bales have been pressed till now in the current cotton season. The CCI has procured approximately 8.6 million bales of ...
Tags: Cotton Season, Cotton
The impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement on China and non-TPP major Asian manufacturers South Korea and Taiwan will be minimal. However, other non-TPP Asian nations (particularly textile manufacturers) and small domestic ...
Tags: Trans-Pacific Partnership, textile
Vietnamese lingerie maker Anh Khoa Production and Trading Company will be importing materials from India. Anh Khoa has recently signed a memorandum of understanding for importing materials from members of the Indian Synthetic and ...
Tags: lingerie, importing materials
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) seized a large shipment of ivory being transshipped through Perth. ACBPS officers detected the 110 kilograms of ivory while examining an air cargo shipment from Malawi, being ...
The Karachi Cotton Association (KCA) has opposed the government’s plan to impose sales tax on cotton in the 2015-16 Budget to mobilise PKR 50 billion in revenue, the Pakistani media has reported. KCA chairman Amin Hashwani ...
Tags: Raw Cotton, sales tax, Cotton
Orders at famed event seen as signal of the outlook for nation's export-oriented firms Organizers of the latest China Import and Export Fair said transactions at the fair are expected to be stable even though China's foreign trade ...
China-based LED lighting makers recorded total export value of more than US$5 million for LED lamps used for growing plants during January-February 2015, according to China-based research organization GGII. LED lamps can emit light of ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED Lamps