Category: General

Business Standard, India
Komal Amit Gera / New Delhi/ Chandigarh

The revision of minimum support price (MSP) of cotton has affected not only the textile mills, the ginning mills in Punjab are also in a soup. About a dozen ginning mills in Abohar and Malot in the cotton-growing belt of Punjab have been shut down due to an unviable business situation.
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India : Alok’s income rides on fabric & garment success
October 30, 2014
Fibre2fashion.com, India

Riding on the higher sales in fabric and garment, Alok Industries second-quarter profit has gone up 28% with net income reaching Rs326.4 million ($7.2 million) from Rs254.6 million last year.Sales have gone up to Rs4.17 billion from Rs3.45 billion.The company has immensely gained from expanding its product profile beyond bed linen and home textile and including garment and apparel fabric in its kitty. Read more about India : Alok’s income rides on fabric & garment success …

Bangladesh garment exports fall sharply
Daily Times, Pakista

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s garment exports fell sharply in the first two months of its financial year, official figures showed Tuesday, amid continued fallout from political turmoil and past labour unrest.

Bangladesh exported garments worth 1.55 billion dollars in July and August, 14.3 percent less than the same period a year ago, the government’s Export Promotion Bureau said. Read more about Bangladesh garment exports fall sharply …

US garment bill and our interests
The New Nation, Bangladesh

A NEW bill that will be soon proposed in the US House of Representatives, seeking extension of the US Generalised System of Preference (GSP) and allowing duty-free import of garments from all least developed countries, will not have the same benefits for Bangladesh that will be enjoyed by other LDC countries. According to newspaper reports, the bill tentatively titled the New Partnership for Development Act, and currently being developed by the Ways and Means Committee’s member Jim McDermott, also proposes that GSP programme should extend indefinitely beyond its scheduled expiration after December 2014. The proposed bill especially offers duty-free GSP eligibility to apparel, and possibly footwear from all least developed countries. Currently such tariff preferences are limited to African and Andean countries under the African Growth and Opportunity Act and Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act. Read more about US garment bill and our interests …

Exporters debate solution on garment quotas
Viet Nam News, Vietnam
(28-10-2014)

HA NOI — The Ministries of Trade and Industry and the Viet Nam Textile and Apparel Association met with clothing companies in the south of Viet Nam on Thursday to work out solutions to ensure that remaining quotas for exports to the US in the last two months of this year are allocated appropriately.

Participants paid special interest to the quota distribution regime of two garment categories: cotton-knit shirts and cotton trousers. Read more about Exporters debate solution on garment quotas …

New Vision, Uganda
By Samuel Balagadde

THE Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has raided SEBCO Uganda, a textile firm, over sh800m in unpaid taxes.
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Garment dyeing plant opened in Sri Lanka
Mon, 2014-10-30 05:06
By Quintus Perera – Asian Tribune
Asian Tribune, Thailand

Colombo, 29 October, (Asiantribune.com): Apparel giants Quantum Clothing Group, UK, Brandix Lanka Limited and Lanka Equities (Pvt) Limited formed a three-way joint venture, resulting in the opening of Stevensons Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, an exclusive garment dyeing operation at the Biyagama Export Processing Zone, Walgama Read more about Garment dyeing plant opened in Sri Lanka …

Fibre2fashion.com, India
October 29, 2014 (Sri Lanka)

A report named “Jaqalanka Closure Report” was recently commissioned by the Fair Labour Association an international NGO. The report investigated the causes leading to closure of three garment factories under the management of the Jaqalanka group.
Read more about Garment sector becoming unviable leading to closures – Report …

Garment workers urge ‘Living Wage’ in face of rising cost of living
Sunday Times.lk, Sri Lanka
By Dilshani Samaraweera

Garment sector groups have launched a campaign for an immediate salary increase and a ‘sector specific’ living wage for garment workers.

ALaRM, a coalition of NGOs and trade unions in the garment sector, launched a campaign last week asking the Board of Investment (BOI) and garment factories for an immediate salary increase of Rs 2,500 for garment workers. Read more about Garment workers urge ‘Living Wage’ in face of rising cost of living …

Garments glowing in the dark
ZDNet Blogs

Knitting specialists at the University of Manchester have developed high-tech battery-powered textile yarns that could be used to make clothing glow in the dark. These yarns could soon be integrated into clothing worn by cyclists, joggers, outdoor workers and pedestrians. These garments would be safer for users than current clothing used by emergency services which need external light sources to make them visible. Read more about Garments glowing in the dark …