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Wool Prices in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand
Wool prices rose in USD terms this week, reflecting the fall in the American currency which depressed demand. Prices rose in euros and Aussie dollars. The market is increasingly dominated by the weakn...
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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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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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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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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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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...
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Taiwan's Denim Fabrics Exports 2004-2007
Taiwan's exports of cotton denim fabrics no more declined in the last year, reflecting a very strong demand from Cambodia or Colombia. Sales to other destinations fell, by contrast. Prices of fabrics...
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Polyester Intermediate Prices on the Asian Market
PTA prices less significantly increased in the last week in Asia while glycol prices even declined. Crude oil prices recovered above US$100, therefore pushing up paraxylene and PTA on Asian spot marke...
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Cotton Prices Looking For Direction
Cotton prices are now looking for some direction on the international market. After the sharp drop previously experienced in New York, prices were more stable in the last week. Spinners were back to t...
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Turkey Ranks Second Among Textile Suppliers of EU
Turkey ranked the second among countries which supply textiles and clothing to EU countries, according to EU`s official statistics institution Eurostat. The import of EU countries in textile and cloth...
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Pakistan - 22 Percent Decline in Textile Machinery Imports
Textile machinery imports declined by 22 percent in eight months of the current financial year as industrialists did not find textile sector attractive for further investment, industry sources said. T...