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MarketWatch
DUBLIN, Ireland, Nov 13, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7faaee/the_clothesource_g) has announced the addition of the “The Clothesource Guide to Apparel Trade Regulations: Second Edition” report to their offering.
Read more about The Latest Clothesource Guide to Apparel Trade Regulations is Now Available: Providing a Summary of Agreements, Quotas and Penal Import Duties …

BusinessDay, Nigeria
The productive capacity of the sector is so low to the extent that about 90 per cent of textiles fabric needs of the country is being fed through importation.
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Vendors won’t bow to BMA relocation order
SUPOJ WANCHAROEN
Bangkok Post, Thailand

Talks between the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and Bo Bae market garment vendors fighting a relocation order collapsed yesterday with both sides refusing to back down.

Deputy city clerk Ratthapol Meethanathavorn said Narongchai Nattaphan, representing the coalition of vendors under the name Bo Bae Ruam Jai Club, expressly told him in the meeting that the traders were determined not to leave the market. Read more about Vendors won't bow to BMA relocation order …

Sri Lanka – Rs600 million apparel industry hub
12-11-2014
Lanka Everything, UK

Sri Lanka’s garment industry is to get a Rs 600 million one-stop-shop, apparel industry hub in Katunayake next year. “The facility will be completed in 2014. We have already identified the land and the planning has started. This will be an apparel industry hub that visitors can come to, for one-stop-shop solutions,” said the Minister of Enterprise Development and Investment Promotions, Rohitha Bogollagama, speaking at the inauguration of two apparel industry exhibitions at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Memorial Exhibition Centre, on Thursday. Read more about Sri Lanka – Rs600 million apparel industry hub …

SINDH TODAY, Pakistan
By Sindh Today
Noida, Nov 12 (IANS) Around 250 permanent employees of a garment export unit have been laid off in what is perceived to be a consequence of the prevailing economic sluggishness, the workers say.

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Tough measures to cure garment sector’s Re woes
Times of India, Indi

MUMBAI: These days, it is easy to get an appointment with chief executives of garment manufacturing firms. They want to talk at length of their woes, mainly due to the declining dollar and even large firms have been forced to send home workers.

Two large Mumbai firms, which have been in the business for over two decades, claim they have sent home 600 workers.

Coming in the back of a year when the garment industry received record orders from foreign buyers, the reversal seems to suggest that something is seriously amiss. Read more about Tough measures to cure garment sector's Re woes …

Business Standard, India
Indian textile firms turn to Pak, US for cotton
Vinay Umarji & Kalpesh Damor / Mumbai/ Ahmedabad
With the international cotton prices getting attractive, textile companies have begun importing the commodity heavily from overseas markets, especially Pakistan.
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Two More Saipan Garment Factories Closing pacific, HI (Saipan Tribune) Two more Saipan garment factories are closing, the Saipan Tribune reports. L&S Apparel Inc. and Jin Apparel Inc. will close by December 31. Jim Apparel, however, said it will make a final decision on its factory by March 2014. The closure of the firms will […]

Weaving Success! Small sops won’t do; textiles need more
Saipan Tribune, Micronesia

The recently announced sops — marginal increase in DEPB and drawback rates — can hardly reverse the declining trend in textile and garment exports. Nor would the commerce ministry’s comparatively more useful proposal to neutralise state-level taxes in export content, which the Cabinet is expected to consider shortly.

Indian textile industry’s principal handicap is that its synthetic raw material base (prices) is globally uncompetitive. If this problem is squarely addressed, then the exporters would even withstand rupee’s appreciation to a considerable extent Read more about Weaving Success! Small sops won’t do; textiles need more …

2 more garment factories shutting down
Saipan Tribune, Micronesia
By Ferdie de la Torre
Reporter

Two more garment manufacturers-L&S Apparel Inc. and Jin Apparel Inc.-are shutting down operations on Saipan by next month and in March 2014.

Saipan Tribune learned that L&S Apparel and Jin Apparel submitted on Nov. 2 and Oct. 31 respectively their formal notice to the Department of Labor about their intention to close and suspend business operations.

The closures will affect hundreds of alien workers, mostly Chinese, and some locals and Filipinos Read more about 2 more garment factories shutting down …