Bad weather, and lack of quality inputs has hampered Tajikistan? cotton production for the year 2005. As a result, exports are expected to decrease.According to USDA Foreign Agricultural Service report, cool and wet weather in early spring delayed cotton sowing in Tajikistan. Due to heavy rains, about 28,000 hectares had to be replanted. Further, the lower temperature during early germination period has delayed maturation of plants for about 8-12 days. This has resulted in a delayed harvest.As p

Manama Textile Mills has unleashed a new $35 million dyeing and printing plant. The new plant will be used for the production of sheets, curtains, kitchen items and tableware. The new plant has the capacity to manufacture 600,000 sheet sets a month. These products will be eventually sold at major brand stores in the US and Europe under the brand name Made in Bahrain.According to Naveed Qari, Region and Corporate Manger, this one of its kind plant will reaffirm Bahrain? position as important play

In the post MFA era, China? textile industry plays a dominant role on international market, attracting global buyers. China is considered as very important sourcing region for the fact that it offers textiles and apparel products at lowest cost and high quality. The textile and apparel manufacturing industry of China is a well-oiled machine that works in complete synchronization integrating material supply, equipment, production techniques, and management. In order to demonstrate the new look of

Sri Lanka may qualify for the EU? Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) plus scheme that will provide gain duty free access to the western EU market. Certain group of independent states and Latin American countries are likely to be listed in GSP Plus, which is currently being finalized by the EU commission. The scheme is designed to help weaker economies, it is expected be functional for a period of three years, which will end by the year 2008. Pakistan and India tried hard to get the benefit

India's textile exports to the European Union will be excluded from EU's new GSP scheme, due to be effective from 1 January 2006. India's apparel exports will still enjoy tariff reductions by contrast. Bangladesh continues negotiating a change in rules of origin under the so-called EBA provision that grants duty-free entry while Sri Lanka will get duty-free access from 1 July. The EU's Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) scheme that has been in operation for the past ten years has just been

China has taken a stand against an EU probe into its footwear exports and has claimed that Brussels is manipulating trade figures and creating trade tensions between China and EU.Commerce Ministry spokesman Chong Quan stated that the China strongly counters the launching of an anti-dumping investigation by the EU that is being done without any practical or legal basis.Chong informed that China had formally represented with the EU on the errors in calculating trade statistics and appealed EU to e

EU Member States have this afternoon backed EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson? reform of the EU? Generalised System of Preferences (GSP). Agreement by Member States, led by the Luxembourg Presidency, breaks a three month deadlock in Council that has delayed the adoption of the new preferential access system. The reform of the GSP will make the EU? system of preferential market access for developing countries both simpler and fairer. While the new GSP system as a whole will apply from 1 Janua

USA based Cotton Incorporated? fashion marketing director told "Cotton is a great fabric for summer shoes because it? so breathable. "Your feet have had enough. They?e been crammed and jammed into countless pairs of shoes, and they?e still a little cranky from spending so much time in your winter boots. It? time to make it up to them during summer with a new pair of cotton shoes.There? more to cotton footwear than just socks! Below, find some of our favorites for summer:Womens:Canvas Slip OnForg

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said Friday in Beijing that there is no scheduled talks in the coming weekend between China and the United States concerning textile trade, as some media reports claimed. A spokesman for the Information Office of the ministry told Xinhua that China and the United States are in the process of consultation on the textiles and garment trade issue, but the specific date for the second round of talks remains undecided. The United States imposed limits on imports of se

Overall trade growth is occurring. In 2004, exports to the United States from the AGOA nations increased by 80 percent over the previous year. However, textile and apparel trade is relatively insignificant. When the pact was originally negotiated, US textile manufacturers fought hard and succeeded in getting a rule of origin that would require use of yarn and fabric made in the participating countries in order for finished products to enjoy duty- and quota-free access to the US market. There als