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AWEX EMI Slide Continues
The Australian wool market continued its downward movement when it finished 1.7% lower, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle this week. The AWEX EMI fell by 16¢ (-1.7%), ending the...
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Volume of Clean Wool Exports Fall Sharply
A review of the data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for January 2008 saw no changes in the declining trend of Australian wool exports measured in volume terms, while the value of wool...
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July Contract to Deal with 10% of the 2007/08 Carryout
Cotton prices zig zagged lower last week, making new recent lows before attempting to form an encouraging double bottom as April came to a close on Wednesday. For the month of April, July lost 163 poi...
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European Countries Invests $24M on Nanotech Risk Research
A new analysis by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) indicates that European nations are investing nearly twice as much as the U.S. in research primarily aimed at addressing the potential...
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Latest Regulations Regarding Textile Trade
U.S. Customs: DR-CAFTA Preferential Rule Modifications are Imminent. - U.S. CITA: Textile Safeguard Measure on Imports of Certain Cotton Socks from Honduras. - U.S. I.T.A.: Implementation of Grants to...
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Wool Market Prices in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand
Wool prices further fell this week in Australia, as demand was depressed by a new rise in the Australian dollar. The global economic slowdown is negatively affecting the wool pipeline with a reduction...
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Cotton Consumption Stagnates
Global cotton mill use is expected to remain stable at 26.7 million tons in 2008/09. The main reasons for the stagnation in mill use are slower world economic growth and higher prices of cotton relati...
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Holiday Fails to Curb Cotton Trading
Cotton traded in a 400 point range today on good volume. Overnight trading was higher following the bounce from yesterday, but ran into trade selling above 72.50. This upside momentum came off of frie...
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Cotton Market Moves Higher
Cotton moved higher fueled by higher other commodities prices. The general pull back in commodities this week came to an end today after slightly higher prices overnight. We did see an attempt at the...
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BEIJING, (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- China's Cotton Market Ran Steadily with Garment Exports According to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).
China exported garment value at US$11.8 billion in March, up 48.3 per cent year on year, and imported 213,000 tons of cotton, down 17.7 per cent. Its output volume of yarn hit 1.76 million tons, up 12...
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Inflation in Asia Could Boost Apparel Prices
The current rebound in inflation rates in Asia may result in higher production costs for apparel exporters. With food prices up about 50% in a single year in a large number of low-cost countries, work...
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European Countries Invest $24m on Nanotech Risk Research
New analysis by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) indicates that European nations are investing nearly twice as much as the U.S. in research primarily aimed at addressing the potential ri...
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Polyester Intermediate Prices on the Asian Market
PTA prices started slightly rising in the last days, after Asian producers were confronted with higher raw material costs in the past weeks, therefore reducing their operating rates. Polyester prices...
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Cotton Price Decrease Boosting Demand
Cotton prices further fell in the last week on the international market, triggering a recovery in physical demand from spinners. A rising dollar and expiration of the nearby contract were behind the n...
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Low Sales Figures in Cotton Market
The market situation developed very reserved during the past week. Enquiries from spinners´ side were rather selective and well-directed to most favourable offers. Due to lacking perspectives for the...
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Cotton Trade in a Narrow Range
Cotton traded in a narrow range on thin volume as we continue to follow outside markets. Grains were up overnight which gave support to cotton after several down sessions last week. However, other com...
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Solid Rise in Raw Wool Export Volumes from South America
In the 2007 calendar year, Uruguay and Argentina's raw wool export volumes saw strong growth. The solid rise in raw wool export volumes from South America can be explained by strong demand for mid-mic...
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Exports to Asia Grow by 3.3%
The Census and Statistics Department (C&SD) released April 24 the external merchandise trade statistics for March 2008. In March 2008, the values of Hong Kong's total exports and imports of goods reco...
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Markets Trade in a Narrow Range
Market traded in a narrow range on light volume ahead of first notice day on Thursday. We did have some late volatility in the K/N'08 spread trading as wide as 475 points to as little as 300 while set...
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Silk Mark Plays an Important Role in Brand Promotion of Silk
There is a demand and supply gap of about 7000 M.tonnes of silk. This additional requirement has been met by the import of raw silk mostly from China which is mainly utilized in powerlooms, export ori...