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UN: Benefits May Be Lost Without Textiles
HONG KONG_Up to 15 percent of the benefits of a WTO package of measures to help the world's poorest countries could be lost if textiles imports from Bangladesh and Cambodia are excluded from a final d...
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Textile Industry Faces Challenges In Trade Negotiations
US textile manufacturers appear to have won one and lost one as trade ministers from the 149-member World Trade Organization (WTO) agreed to procedures they will follow in the Doha Round of trade libe...
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Reports: China, Brazil agree textile deal
China and Brazil have held talks over their textile disputes on the sidelines of the World Trade Organization meeting in Hong Kong, with reports that there will be future limits on China's exports to...
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Pakistan retains US market share: Apparel products
KARACHI, Dec 20: Pakistan has succeeded in protecting its US market share for apparel products at the Sixth Ministerial Conference held in Hong Kong from Dec 13 to 18, by restricting market access of...
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China's textile machine exports grew, mainly to South Asian countries
China's textile machinery export value amounted to US$713 million between January and October, up 37.53%, making a trade deficit of US2.198 billion when compared with the import value at US$2.911 bill...
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Textile Tariff Issues Heating Up
As government leaders throughout the world are ratcheting up their efforts to lay the groundwork for a successful Doha Round of trade liberalization negotiations, textile and apparel manufacturers and...
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EU wants reduction in cotton subsidies
The European Commission requested rich nations to cut subsidies to their cotton industries as soon as an agreement on world trade liberalisation, currently on the table, is put into effect.The appeare...
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US And China Reach Agreement On Textile Imports
The US and Chinese governments have reached a new bilateral textile trade agreement that has won the enthusiastic support of textile state members of Congress, US textile manufacturers and even import...
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Boom in Vietnam textile export to U.S.
The Vietnamese Trade Ministry has stated that Shipments of Vietnamese
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U.S. not to put curbs on Indian textile imports
The United States has assured India that it would not impose restrictions on Indian textile imports on the line of curbs on the Chinese textile imports since the WTO agreement on lifting of quota had...
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WTO accepts Saudi Arabia’s terms of negotiation
World Trade Organization (WTO) General Council formally concluded negotiations with Saudi Arabia on the terms of the country’s membership to the WTO.
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EU and West Africa agree next phase of negotiations on EPA
EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson met with West African Ministers on the 27th October in Brussels to agree on the next phase of the Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations between the two regi...
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India & US aim to double bilateral trade by 2008
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) welcomed the demonstration of the trade priorities the US has attached to India as a strategic economy, by kick-starting the Indo-U...
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Textile sector investment, furniture sees growth in Egypt
Indian, Turkish and Taiwanese industrial companies seek investment in Egypt, especially in the sector of textile ready-made and clothes, Egypt's Minister of Foreign Trade and Industry Rasheed Mohamed...
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US, China agree in principle to 3-year textile pact
BEIJING (AFX) - The US and China have agreed in principle to a three-year textile pact giving Chinese producers more room to increase shipments to the US, but imposing controls on Chinese access to th...
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Saudi Arabia moves a step closer to joining WTO
The World Trade Organization‘s Director-General Pascal Lamy, on 28 October 2005, welcomed the conclusion of the Working Party negotiations on the accession of Saudi Arabia to the WTO.
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Belgium : The Doha Development Agenda - EU makes new offers
Yesterday, the EU has tabled new proposals on agriculture and other areas of the DDA trade talks to its negotiating partners in the "Five Interested Parties" (FIPs).
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Israel : Membership to Euro-Mediterranean cumulation of origin zone portends huge benefits for textile industry
Israeli textile companies are to benefit from the country's joining the European-Mediterranean cumulation of origin zone. The agreement will save many jobs in the textile and allied industries in whic...
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AFRICA SUFFERS FROM TEXTILE QUOTA PHASE-OUT
Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have been the main losers from the end-2004 phase-out of trade quotas on textiles and clothing, according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (IL...
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East African Countries for Common Textile Policy
MEMBER countries of the East African Community are to formulate a common textile policy to promote the cotton sector.