Yasar Hanif

South Africa Commits Support To Apparel-Textile Sector South Africa’s Clothing and Textile Competitiveness Programme has helped sector exports grow from 7.1-billion rand (R) in 2008 to R25.1 billion in 2017 and will receive its share of the R15.9 billion allocated to incentives and the Expanded … Read more about South Africa Commits Support To Apparel-Textile Sector

Sri Lanka's Textile Exports Up 4.7% in Jan-July '18 Sri Lanka’s earnings from textiles and garments exports increased by 4.7 per cent year-on-year to $2.984 billion in the first seven months of 2018, according to the statistics recently released by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. Imports of … Read more about Sri Lanka’s Textile Exports Up 4.7% in Jan-July ’18

Record Cotton Production To Drive West Africa Exports Cotton exports from West Africa for 2018-19 are projected to surpass last year’s record, driven by record production, according to the US department of agriculture (USDA). West Africa comprises 12 cotton producing countries, namely Benin, … Read more about Record Cotton Production To Drive West Africa Exports

US Polyester Yarn Makers Allege Dumping From China, India Two major US synthetic yarn producers—Unifi Manufacturing, Inc (Unifi) and Nan Ya Plastics Corporation, America (Nan Ya)—have filed petitions alleging that dumped and subsidised imports of polyester textured yarn from China and India are … Read more about US Polyester Yarn Makers Allege Dumping From China, India

95% of Tunisia's textile, clothing exports go to Europe Ninty five per cent of Tunisia’s textile and clothing exports are aimed at Europe, according to official statistics unveiled recently during the Tunisian-French partnership day in the textile and clothing sector, which accounts for 35 per … Read more about 95% of Tunisia’s textile, clothing exports go to Europe

Aurora Opens Fulfilment Centre To Meet Growing Demand Aurora Specialty Textiles Group, Inc., has opened a new regional fulfilment centre in Santa Fe Springs, California, to meet growing demand for Aurora’s extensive family of printable textiles. The new regional warehouse and fulfilment centre … Read more about Aurora Opens Fulfilment Centre To Meet Growing Demand

India-Uzbekistan expert group to explore trade agreement India and Uzbekistan recently agreed to establish an expert group to jointly undertake a feasibility study for a trade agreement to boost economic ties and commence negotiations for a preferential trade agreement by 2018 end, according to a … Read more about India-Uzbekistan expert group to explore trade agreement

Trump Announces Tariffs On $200 Bn Worth Chinese Imports US President Donald Trump escalated the trade war with China on Monday by imposing 10 per cent tariffs on another $200 billion in imports beginning next week and threatening to target more if Beijing retaliates. China had refused to change … Read more about Trump Announces Tariffs On $200 Bn Worth Chinese Imports

Jammu & Kashmir Start-Up Policy 2018 Approved The Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) state administrative council (SAC) recently approved the ‘J&K Start-up Policy 2018’ to inspire young brains to pursue innovation and entrepreneurship, empower start-ups and generate employment opportunities. The council met … Read more about Jammu & Kashmir Start-Up Policy 2018 Approved

Textile production fuelling growth for machinery The global textile machinery market is predicted to grow at a healthy rate of 13.8 per cent in the next five years. This will be on account of the healthy growth in the textiles and apparel industry itself, besides increasing demand of technical … Read more about Textile Production Fuelling Growth For Machinery

USDA To Assist Farmers Affected By Unjustified Retaliation US secretary of agriculture Sonny Perdue recently announced details of actions the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will take to assist farmers in response to trade damage from “unjustified” retaliation by foreign nations. President … Read more about USDA To Assist Farmers Affected By Unjustified Retaliation