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CHINA: China's textile, Garment exports up 28.3% in August
The export value of textiles and garments in China grew 28.3% year on year but fell 3.1% month on month to US$20.14 billion in August, according to the latest statistics from China's General Administr...
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BANGLADESH: Bangladeshi manufacturers seek government intervention to cool cotton prices
Bangladesh’s leading apparel industry lobbyists spoke out about their concerns over cotton prices in local and international markets here on Wednesday, saying rocketing prices will damage the country’...
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USA: Cotton Prices Surge on Asia Supply Scarcity
Cotton prices have surged to new 15-year highs as exports from Asia fall. Textile and apparel exporters in Asia say consumers may feel the pinch with more expensive T-shirts and jeans.
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Egypt's Alcotexa sells 5,632 T cotton in past week.
Egypt's Alexandria Cotton Exporters' Association (Alcotexa) has committed to sell 5,632 tonnes of cotton in the week that ended on September 25, an Alcotexa official told Reuters on Sunday.
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ITALY: Orders of Italian Textile Machinery grew 35% in 2010 Q2
Orders for Italian textile machinery grew over the second quarter of 2010, which closed with an overall index of 159.5 points for the period from April/June, amounting to a 35% increase compared with...
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BULGARIA: Bulgarian clothing exports grow.
Prada and Vivienne Westwood will help Bulgarian dress-making companies survive the world crisis. Some 90% of the clothes and textile materials which Bulgarian companies produce are exported, shows an...
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TURKEY: Venezuela seeks Turkish cooperation in textile sector
Venezuela, the country which finds a place amongst the world’s leading oil exporters, has requested Turkey, to extend support in various areas, right from textiles to ICT. T
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EGYPT: Arafa Feb-July Net Profit jumps: bourse
Arafa Holding, Egypt's biggest garment exporter, posted an almost fourfold increase in net profit for the Feb-July period, the bourse said in a statement on Wednesday.
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GLOBAL: Cotton production to rise in 2010-2011
World cotton production in 2010/11 is forecast at 117.0 million bales, up 16 percent from a year. Rising global cotton prices and improvements in credit availability have resulted in higher area in se...
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INDIA: Indian Textile Producers press for an export ban.
After the panic caused by Russia’s wheat export ban, a proposed cotton export ban by Indian producers may cause the next fissure in global trade.
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BRAZIL: Brazil cuts cotton import tax to zero from 10% until May 2011.
Brazil has scrapped a 10-percent tariff on imports of cotton lint due to fears that existing supplies will be insufficient to meet local demand, the foreign trade chamber, Camex, said on Tuesday.
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Brazil Expects Shortage, Will Import 250,000 Tons of Cotton
As strong as Brazil’s cotton cultivation has become in recent years, it isn’t the only industry growing quickly. The South American country’s textile and apparel industry -- now the fifth-largest in t...
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EGYPT: Egypt's Arab Cotton Ginning 2009/10 profit jumps.
Egyptian textiles company Arab Cotton Ginning posted net profit of 205 million Egyptian pounds for the fiscal year to the end of June, the stock exchange said on Monday.
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Sri Lankan Apparel Exports grew 23.8% in the first half.
Sri Lanka's apparel exports grew 23.8% to US$304 million in the first half of 2010. The country＊s Central Bank said that apparel exports to the United States were up 34% and to the European Union by...
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Significant increase in cotton imports in Thailand
This year in July, the Thai cotton imports reached 29,900 tons, up 11.4% of the Australian cotton imports increased by 43.4%, imports of cotton in Africa is also a record high.
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CHINA: Cotton demand-supply to achieve parity in 2011
World cotton production and consumption are forecast to roughly balance at 25.1 million tons in 2010/11, as a result of a 15% rebound in production and a 2% increase in mill use,according to Internati...
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CHINA: India to allow unrestricted cotton exports from Oct 1.
India is projected to have a record cotton production this season with 330 lakh bales and will allow unconstraint export of cotton, said a government official on Friday.
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INDIA: Garment Exports decline again to $816 million.
Even as overall exports from India have continued to grow, albeit at a slower pace, garment exports have gone deeper into the red.
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BANGLADESH: Soon Indian Garments to be made in Bangladesh.
Indian shirt-maker NSL Textile, for instance, is trying to import readymade shirts from Bangladesh that would be marketed under the brand name Constello. The Rs.15 billion enterprise is among the many...
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CHINA: India to fix cotton exports quota
Prior to resume cotton exports, India said it will fix the export quota after deciding on the domestic demand and the production.