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EU-Tunisia negotiations: Free trade without trading freedoms?
Spring 2018 is about to see two fundamental negotiations for Tunisia conducted between representatives of Tunisia and the European Union (EU). First, during the week of April the 17th, negotiations wi...
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U.S. Textile Industry Calls for Tariffs on Imported Textiles and Apparel End Products
The U.S. textile industry has asked the Trump administration to place tariffs on certain textile and apparel products made by China that may infringe on U.S. companies’ intellectual-property rights.
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Egypt seeks to attract new Brazilian investments
The Egyptian-Brazilian Business Council is seeking, through meetings with the Brazilian side, to attract new Brazilian investments in Egypt in the fields of car manufacturing, fertilizers, ready-made...
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Egypt Home textile export council demands CBE to add exporters to SME’s finance initiative
Egypt Home textile export council (HTEC) will participate with 40 companies in the upcoming “Heimtextil-International Trade Fair for Home Textiles” exhibition, scheduled to be held Frankfurt, Germany...
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Egypt industry Ministry to offer incentives for textile sector
Egypt will offer incentives for investors to attract new projects in the textile sector, Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade Tarek Kabil said Sunday.
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Egypt invests in re-building Ginning sector with ‘Bajaj-India’
Egypt Public Business Sector Minister Dr. Ashraf el-Sharqawi reviewed Saturday with representatives of the Bajaj Company the final terms a contract to develop the ginning machinery of the Cotton and T...
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Brazilian textile companies to seek Egyptian cotton
The government of Egypt has invited three Brazilian enterprises from textile industry. Textiles maker Fiama, yarn maker Círculo and elastic band manufacturer Damenny to see Egyptian-made raw materials...
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2017-18 will be good year for cotton textile industry: SIMA
With a sound tax system and real time governance coupled with availability of surplus cotton, the year 2017-18 will be a good year for cotton textile industry, Southern India Mills Association (SIMA)...
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How the TPP could change where your clothes come from
There is a reason President Obama made the case for the Trans-Pacific Partnership at Nike's headquarters: American clothing companies that want to manufacture their clothes in Vietnam are big winners...
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Pakistan government must stop Indian fabric import via Dubai
The third country import of Indian fabric from Dubai is still unchecked, which is responsible for heavy financial losses to the weaving units in Pakistan, the country's newspapers have reported.
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How trade deals like TPP fail the global poor
The Obama administration insists that the just released Trans-Pacific Partnership is great not only for the US economy - "supporting more well-paying American jobs, strengthening our middle class" - b...
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Local textile manufacturers blame industry's collapse on government - Ghana
According to the manager in charge of administration at Printex, Moses Tetteh Zizzer, the Ministry of Education, abrogated a contract it signed with company for the supply of fabrics for the governmen...
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Israel, Egypt set target of US$2bn duty-free textile exports to U.S. within 3 years
Israel and Egypt have marked 10 years of the U.S. Qualifying Industrial Zone framework (QIZ) with a joint booth at the Magic apparel trade fair, in Las Vegas, the world’s biggest event in the internat...
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Ghana and USAID pen deal to boost textile trade
Signing and exchange of the letter of collaboration were `at a ceremony to launch the new African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Trade Resource Centre, which was hosted by the GCCI within the World...
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India: Textile industry seeks lower duties, more funds for growth
According to industry, the govt must reduce the central excise duty on man-made fibre from 12 percent to 6 percent on par with cotton and also remove the 5 percent import duty and 4 percent special ad...
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Egyptian Government Plans Total Change of its Economy
The mainstays of the Egyptian economy will have a substantial reformation if the building of an international industrial and logistics hub near the Suez canal is materialized sucessfully, said officia...
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Transporters Worried About Egypt’s Decision Not To Renew Ro-Ro Deal With Turkey
Turkey’s habit of picking fights with its former allies is o longer limited to Israel. Since the change in government in Egypt, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been attacking the country’s new...
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Egypt: Ending subsidies for cotton
The government will not be paying a cash subsidy of LE1,400 per feddan to cotton producers as it did last year, Adel Al-Beltagui, minister of agriculture and land reclamation, said last week.
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Japan’s garment, textile industry obtains turnover target of $28-28.5b
Garment and textile industry maintained its export growth momentum last year and obtained a turnover target of US$28-28.5 billion, showing an increase of 16 percent over 2013. Garment items brought US...
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Removal of cotton subsidies will harm textile industry
The decision to remove cotton cultivation subsidies will harm the cotton and textile industry in Egypt, said Sawsan Wahby, the Chairman of Eastern Cotton Company, one of the affiliates of the Cotton &...