The Australian wool industry is building alliances with key fashion designers, retailers and clothing manufacturers around the world to increase demand for Australian Merino wool. This was the message from Australian Wool Innovation Limited (AWI) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Len Stephens to woolgrowers at the Australian Sheep and Wool Show in Bendigo, Victoria, on Saturday."Over the past 12 months AWI has really focused on building alliances with commercial partners in the apparel market aro

A European trade expert has appreciated the assistance from Vietnamese businesses in the EU's anti-dumping probe over leather shoes. At a press briefing in Ha Noi on July 15 after two days working with Vietnamese businesses, Frederic Michiels, a technical expert from the Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission, said the investigation may take place directly in Viet Nam in early May, and between five and seven companies will be selected for investigation. The expert also said the

ISLAMABAD: The government is set to announce the 2005-06 Trade Policy on July 21 with an export target between $16 billion to $17 billion and major changes in the ongoing freight subsidy policy, a senior government official told Daily Times on Saturday.The official said the ministry of commerce was thinking about setting the 2005-06 export target at around $16 billion but officials expect that the president and prime minister will ask the ministry to set an export target at $17 billion.While spe

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Indian textile exporters are likely to play role of value chain players by jumping into the high-valued branded garments and home textile markets in the United States and the European countries.Leading terry towel maker Welspun Industries Ltd has begin functioning the producing, marketing and distribution units of a range of towels in the US and Canada.Leading textile player, Arvind Mills has been so far supplying to major retailers such as Wal-Mart, JC Penny, and Marks & Spencer, is now pla

Currently, there are about 200 companies having applied for additional quotas for shipping apparel goods to the US under Announcement No. 0663 dated 06/06 by the Ministry of Trade (MoT).Apparel quota management department of the Ministries of Trade and Industry have been finalizing the draft rule relating additional quota distribution with consultation from Vietnam Garment and Textile Association so that companies will soon receive quotas.The association says this is the only quota supplement di

The major industrial sector in Pakistan, textile is unlikely to reach exports target for year 2004-05.The Ministry of Commerce and Export Promotion Bureau had anticipated the target of textile exports about $9.2 billion after talks with textile stakeholders.The textile exports reach $830 million in the month of May 2005, depicting of elevation when matching to the exports of $782 million exports in April 2005 and 650 million dollars in May last year.An Export Promotion Bureau official informed t

The hike in fuel prices and the minimum wage increase will raise the manufacturing cost on each piece of garment from 15 per cent to 22 per cent, according to the CEO of Jordan Garment Exporters Association (JGate). JGate CEO Rashed Darwazeh said the association received scenarios from five different factories on the effect of the increase in labour salaries and fuel prices. "A scenario of one factory that manufactures 1.8 million pieces of garments showed that the cost will rise by JD250, 000 p

The director-general of anti-dumping and allied duties has commenced probe into alleged ?umping?of Chinese silk fabrics in India. The investigation has been initiated on a petition filed by the Central Silk Board (CSB) on behalf of domestic silk producers who claim to be losing out to low priced Chinese silk fabric imports. However, cheap and high grade Chinese silk fabrics are in demand from the silk apparel manufacturers. The Chinese silk fabrics being a key raw material for apparel, the app

Before Sino-U.S. Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade opening, the second round of talks over the textile trade row with the United States will begin. According to news from Ministry of Com-merce yesterday, bilateral representatives will begin to negotiate textile trade issue in terms of tech-nique, today in Beijing. Some relational person under the Ministry of Commerce believed that as a preparing activity for Sino-U.S. Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, this meeting would be hard to mak