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Colombia plans to impose tariffs on clothing and apparel accessories with WTO most-favored-nation status
Colombian media reported that the Colombian government plans to impose restrictions on Chapter 61 knitted or crocheted clothing and apparel accessories and Chapter 62 non-knitted o…

Soaring energy prices may force French textile industry to move abroad
French financial news channel BFMBusiness reported on December 3 that the textile industry is threatened by the recent surge in energy prices. Take the French-American joint ventur…

Teijin expands production facilities in Thailand
Teijin Frontier, a fiber company under the Teijin Group, is building a polyester long fiber automated production equipment worth 1 billion yen at its polyester fiber manufacturing …

Vietnam’s textile and apparel exports fell by .%
Vietnam’s textile and clothing exports fell by 31.9% between August and September 2011, but were still higher than the same period last year. Therefore, industry experts beli…

Sri Lanka’s garment industry urges government to speed up free trade talks
Sri Lanka’s “Daily Mirror” reported on December 22 that the Joint Apparel Association Forum of Sri Lanka (JAAF) issued a statement on the 10th, urging the governm…

Cotton yarn prices fall in northern India’s Ludhiana, Delhi prices steady
Foreign news on December 10, the price of cotton yarn in Ludhiana, India fell by 5 rupees per kilogram on Thursday, despite the increase in cotton prices. Traders said poor end-use…

Russia plans to build textile industry cluster in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan Detailed News reported on December 4 that Islyayev, a member of the Russian-Ukrainian Industrialists Council and a partner of the Russian GRT consulting company, attende…

Cotton yarn prices in southern India remain stable, but buying interest is low
Foreign news reported on December 22 that conflicts within the textile value chain have left cotton yarn traders and buyers at a loss. Cotton prices in Mumbai and Tirupur remained …

Bangladesh’s garment and accessory material packaging export industry gets its first taste of winter
The crisis faced by Bangladesh’s textile and garment industry in the past two months (September and October) has also recently had an impact on other processes in the garment…