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Viscose Filament and Staple Fiber Prices
Viscose prices are heavily falling in China, as a result of a low level in demand and a new reduction in raw material costs. Filament prices are especially under pressure these days as inventories are...
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Manufacturing Production Rise
The estimated seasonally adjusted manufacturing production for the three months ended February 2008 increased by 0.8% compared with the previous three months. Higher production levels were reported by...
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Apranga Extends Collaboration with Spanish Clothing Giant
The leader of retail apparel market in Lithuania and the Baltic States Apranga Group successfully continues collaboration with the global leader of retail apparel market Inditex Group. Apranga Group a...
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CITI welcomes Annual Supplement to the Foreign Trade Policy
Confederation of Indian Textile Industry has welcomed several positive policy inputs incorporated in the Annual Supplement to the Foreign Trade Policy 2004-09 announced by Shri Kamal Nath, Minister fo...
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India - Govt may Trim Import Duty on Cotton
The government is likely to snip import duty on cotton as part of a package to sew up fiber costs for local cloth mills. This package would be in addition to allowing cotton imported at zero duty from...
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Bolivia - Fire Destroys Cotton-Recycling Plant in El Alto
This afternoon, a huge fire destroyed completely a cotton recycling plant on San Sebastian neighborhood, district 8, from El Alto city. According to preliminary report given by the chief of Firefighte...
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Global Cotton Prices to Rise 8% in FY09 on Rising Demand
Cotton prices in the global market are likely to surge by over 8% to 80 cents per pound in 2008-09, triggered by the price trend of competing crops like soybeans, corn, wheat and other oilseeds, the W...
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Australian Dollar Limiting Wool Return
Australian wool producers are the victims of a high Australian dollar, which is eating away their returns despite buyers paying top dollar. The Western Region indicator continued to fall last week aft...
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Congress to Support the US-Colombia TPA
American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) urged the U.S. Congress to immediately approve the U.S./ Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA) Implementation Act (HR 5724). Earlier this week, Presid...
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Cotton Marks a Record Output in March
Cotton USA releases US cotton supply & offtake. • 2007-08 World mill use estimated at 124.9 million bales, up 490,000 bales from March. • 2007-08 World production estimated at 119.7 million bales, up...
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Global Apparel Markets: a new publication from Textiles Intelligence - Press Release
April 2008 sees the launch of a brand new publication from Textiles Intelligence, in association with Netherlands-based International Apparel Federation (IAF). Global apparel exports are valued at mor...
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Egypt's Exports of Cotton Amount to 2.5 Million Qintars for the current season
After the successive recess of the export ratios of the Egyptian cotton in the past years, the current season made a remarkable record of increase, exceeding LE 1.0 billion. Experts ascribe this to th...
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Hamada El-Qaliouby: New Mechanisms for Curbing Trafficked Textiles
The textile industry has recently been exposed to severe threats which may be described as a sort of war waged by organized groups working in trafficking textiles into the local market. This led facto...
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India - Cotton Ginners, Weaving Mills Want Government to Step in as Prices Soar
After food, fibre crops may be next on the government’s price scanner in India. There are moves a foot to clamp down on large traders after Indian mills complained of a sharp spike in cotton prices du...
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Bangladesh Company makes Yarn from Cotton Waste
Bangladesh has begun producing environmentally friendly yarn from cotton waste to save foreign currency on imports, Evitex Polycot Limited (EPL), a local company, said on Wednesday. The company set up...
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New managers for 10 Exporting Panels
Eng. Rasheed Mohamed Rasheed Egypt’s Minister of Trade and Manufacturing announced the reformation of exporting boards, due to the completion of the 3 years working time-span of the old boards. This d...
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Warning: The demand on the Egyptian cotton fiber is highly increasing while the cultivation area is declining.
The General Committee for Organizing Cotton Trade has announced a warning regarding the jeopardy in the cotton areas plantation decrease year after year and the effect of that on the national income a...
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Gap between cotton production & consumption increasing
World cotton area is projected to remain relatively stable in 2008/09 at 33.8 million hectares. However, cotton harvested area in the USA is projected to decline by a further 15% in 2008/09 as a resul...
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Spandex Prices Depressed by Rising Capacities
Spandex prices continued declining in the past fortnight in China, reflecting lower material costs and weaker demand. Production capacities are also sharply increasing and putting pressure on prices....
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US Apparel Imports In Major Categories: January-February 2008
US apparel imports clearly declined in the first two months of the year, in most important categories. Shipments from China heavily fell in volume terms, latest data confirm, while progressively recov...