BEIJING, July 12 -- Tang-style water-lily trousers, Dunhuang Flying Grottos-style vests, Tang-style banquets... the flavor of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) prevail in ancient Xi'an City this summer, forming a beautiful scene in the lives of people. Fashionable clothing derived from Tang apparels have become the first-choice of beautiful young women in Xi'an. Many of them dress themselves in bright, colorful and lively Tang-style water-lily trousers and lotus-sleeves tights with peony blossoms

China countered EU's anti-dumping probe on Chinese shoes, saying "It lacks a legal basis and realistic proof." The EU's investigation is expected to involve more than 1,200 Chinese enterprises with 670 million US dollars in value, according to the website of the Ministry of Commerce (MOC). MOC spokesman Chong Quan said the Chinese government attaches great importance to the case. Shoes are one of China's major export items. The shoe-making industry concerns a large portion of its workforce. The

US textile, apparel and fiber producing trade associations announced the filing of four safeguard petitions covering eight categories to limit the growth of US textile and apparel imports from China on Monday, July 11. The industry also announced that it had refiled a petition on curtains on June 22 that the US government rejected for technical reasons on June 21.Click to view Petitions filed for US safeguards:The China Year to Date Increase for the shirt, skirt, and pajamas/nightwear categories

Chinese Minister of Commerce, Bo Xilai opined that China is commitment to encourage present multilateral trade system. At the meeting with European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson, Bo said that China has been always holding a "responsible attitude" to the world trade system. Bo met Mandelson a day before the informal ministerial meeting is kicked off in Dalian. The two-day meeting will take stock of the Doha Development Agenda negotiations and discuss the progress of the "First App

The Karnataka Textile Mills' Association (KTMA) alarmed against the proposed increase in power tariff. KTMA informed that it would kill the textile industry and would tend mills to transfer their base to states such as Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. It would also result thousands of jobless in the industry.The association? Chairman C Valliappa opined that plan to increase the power tariff to Rs 5.10 a unit from Rs 4.50 a unit would force most of the mills to shift their base to Andhra Pradesh,

The European Union has put into force the Memorandum of Understanding that follows negotiations between Beijing and Brussels over textile quotas agreed recently by the two parties. In essence, this involves a system of "double checking" with the introduction of EU import licences for restricted Chinese imports. Counting on both sides already reveal that agreed quota limits are significantly filled in some categories. The now famous "paragraph 242" of China's accession to the WTO, recently form

Textile Ministry official stated that the textile exports from India are likely to reach at a 25 percent growth rate during current year.R Poornalingam, Secretary of Textile Ministry informed that however, ten percent of decline was registered during first four months of this year, the exports to United States (US) and European Union (EU) has been recorded a substantial rise, which would lead India to reach at 25 percent growth rate.At the same time the US imports have a quantum jump of 24 per c

Through the first four months of this year, U.S. imports of apparel from China were up 79 percent over the same period a year ago, led by increases in cotton clothing. Imports of those three products increased more than tenfold in the first six months of the year, U.S. textile groups say. In part to address that surge, the Commerce Department imposed caps May 23 on those three categories -- knit shirts, cotton trousers and underwear -- and limited growth in their import from China to 7.5 percen

Decline and financial crisis has poorly affected the cotton textile industry in West Bengal. At present only five out of 19 mills in the private sector and three out of 12 mills in the public sector are fully functional. Nine cotton textile mills were shut down by the government in the public sector, which was operated by the National Textile Corporation Ltd.State Labour Department sources informed that mills, both in the private and public sectors had been facing serious problems since almost d

The Ministry of Commerce announced on Saturday that China and the United States decided to continue their discussions to try to find out resolution for the textile trade disputes during the second round.The two sides held a new round of technical level consultation concerning US limit of clothing imports from China on Friday, the ministry said in a statement. "The two sides agreed to keep the channel of exchange open and continue the consultations to find out an appropriate way to solve the text