"The subsidies given by its government and loans granted with low interest rates helped the Chinese textile industry to emerge as one of the top industries in the world. This coupled with zero per cent duty through the RCEP free trade agreement is likely to provide China with an open market, affecting medium and small ... Read more
"Industry, traders and farmers in India have appreciated the government's decision not to join RCEP deal. Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal termed the deal against India's economic interests and national priorities. “We have consistently upholded our demands particularly over-controlling trade def... Read more
"The war for the best apparel maker crown is getting hotter with Pakistan joining the race alongside Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Bangladesh. However, as the country aspires to reach the top, it first needs to check the availability of a suitable product category, materials required, labor cost and skill, workers’ r... Read more
"Year 2024 will prove to be a milestone for Bangladesh as the country will graduate from being a Least Developed Country to a developing country. This will bring along a number of new challenges particularly its impact on the readymade garments industry. The industry will have to address issues like: How RMG entreprene... Read more
"Credit rating agency ICRA’s latest research suggests, Indian apparel exports will continue to grow for the rest of the year, however the pace of growth will slow down as multiple challenges looming on the horizon, are a challenge for exporters to meet targets. Reviving after two consecutive years of decline... Read more
"A new research report by DBS Bank’s economist Radhika Rao, says the US-China trade conflict is a golden opportunity for India to increase its trade footprint particularly in categories on which Washington has imposed tariffs on Beijing. The report lists various ways the trade war can benefit India." A new res... Read more
"With low growth in synthetics, Indian apparel industry stands to be less competitive. The synthetic segment in India failed to make a mark in the global market because of low exports, low wages in factories producing synthetics and low investments in the sector. Indian textile units run for only six months in a year t... Read more
"A recent survey by Weave Services, a supply chain consulting firm that specialises in demand and production planning shows, leading apparel brands and sourcing offices are moving their bases out of China over concerns of access to raw materials and lead times. This surely offers a golden opportunity to India to establ... Read more
"The expectation was that post Rana Plaza tragedy, that killed at least 1,132 people and injured over 2,500 in Bangladesh, the global garment manufacturing industry had woken up to the social and environmental hazards of fast fashion. However, six years later, little seems to have changed as many workers are still bein... Read more
"Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her maiden budget in Modi 2.0 government. However, the textiles sector seems to have been low on her priority list as the Budget allocation for textiles has been reduced to Rs 5831.48 crore in fiscal 2019-20 from Rs 6,943.26 in the last fiscal. Total textile infrastructure... Read more
"While NCTO strongly supports the free trade structure established under NAFTA, it also agrees with President Trump’s desire to improve the terms of the original agreement. It specifically advocates certain improvements in NAFTA renewal negotiation. Some of these include: maintaining yarn forward as the fundament... Read more
"Kim Glas, new the president and CEO of the National Council of Textile Organisations since April 2019, has set a definite goal to revive the flagging American textile industry. She notes the American industry in the last few years has seen a remarkable uptick in employment with the industry currently employing 600,000... Read more
The Philippines has prepared a roadmap for the garment and textile industry. The plan covers t... Read more
The US government has strengthened labor, environmental, pharmaceutical and enforcement provisi... Read more
In a letter issued to the union finance ministry A Sakthivel, Vice-Chairman, Apparel Export Pro... Read more
The textile commissioner’s office will soon form of a technical advisory cell for the ant... Read more
The progress of textile parks, under the Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP), has been m... Read more
The US has imposed duty on imports of polyester textured yarn from China and India. This follow... Read more
Textile industry’s initiative Samarth has the broad objective of skilling youth for gainf... Read more
The tariffs on Chinese imports continue to unsettle the fashion apparel industry in the US. The... Read more
The Home Textile Exporters’ Welfare Association (HEWA) has sought Prime Minister Modi&rsq... Read more
Clothing exports from the Philippines in Q3 declined over six per cent compared to the same per... Read more
Indonesia is tightening restrictions on textile imports. Restriction is aimed at protecting dom... Read more
Pakistan is framing a long term and comprehensive textile policy. The aim is to increase Pakist... Read more
The National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), represents its full spectrum of U.S. text... Read more
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has ruled against at least five of India’s export prom... Read more
India has raised objections to the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) ... Read more
Karnataka’s new textile and garment policy has identified five thrust sectors: spinning, ... Read more
The government plans to amend the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises Development Act to allo... Read more
Indian textile units have asked for liquidity support and a one or two year moratorium. Other i... Read more
Bangladesh has reduced the source tax on export proceeds for all sectors from 1.0 per cent to 0... Read more
India may extend the two-year moratorium for debt repayments by textile units. While steps have... Read more
All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) in its letter to Razzak Dawood, Adviser to Prime... Read more
The Ministry of Industry of Mynamar plans to set up special zones for textiles and garments in ... Read more
Under the proposed Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA), the Bangladesh government will finalise ... Read more
As per the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, the Karnataka textile policy 2013-18 faile... Read more
The Union Ministry for Textile and Women and Child Development plans to develop an apparel clus... Read more
India wants the US to resume trade concessions under GSP.The US terminated India's designation ... Read more
The textile industry in India wants a cut in GST.It is felt a GST cut across the value chain fr... Read more
Tariffs on goods imported from China have been devastating to small fashion brands in the US.Th... Read more
Apparel exporters have applauded the central government’s decision to continue the Mercha... Read more
Prabhu Dhamodharan, Convenor of Indian Texpreneurs Federation (ITF) met Union finance minister ... Read more
The Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS) was introduced to benefit exporters. The inten... Read more
American clothing companies are scouting for greater investment opportunities in India. They ar... Read more
Tirupur Exporters’ Association (TEA) had appealed to the Union Textiles Secretary to the ... Read more
More than 90 per cent of Chinese apparel imports into the US will be hit with 15 per cent tarif... Read more
As clarified by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Pakistan Yarn Merchants Association (Sind &... Read more
The United States Trade Organisation (USTO) has confirmed that an additional duty of 5 per cent... Read more
As per the new FDI rules, India will allow single brand companies to start online sales even be... Read more
The Clothing Manufacturers Association of India (CMAI) welcomes the changes made in the FDI rul... Read more
India may devise a new export incentive scheme especially for the yarn and fabric sector. Expor... Read more
Clean Clothes Campaign has welcomed the G7 Fashion Deal for sustainably produced textiles. The ... Read more
Indonesia will impose a tariff of 2.5 per cent to 18 per cent on imported textile products. The... Read more
Zimbabwe is plugging loopholes in the grant of rebates to clothing manufacturers. Some players ... Read more
The government has announced measures to infuse confidence in small and medium units in the gar... Read more
The small and medium sector will receive GST refunds within 30 days. However, powerloom weavers... Read more
Zimbabwe is plugging loopholes in the rebate scheme for clothing manufacturers. The country has... Read more
In the first half of this year, the Council for the Development of Cambodia approved 153 invest... Read more
The apparel industry in the US supports maintaining strong trading ties with China and voices o... Read more
Tirupur Exporters’ Association (TEA) has urged the government to introduce an alternative... Read more
India is promoting the textile industry in the Northeast. The region accounts for nearly 50 per... Read more
Lenzing’s revenue increased by 1.2 per cent in the first half of 2019. The share of speci... Read more
APEC has appealed to the government to continue the Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS... Read more