The hike in fuel prices and the minimum wage increase will raise the manufacturing cost on each piece of garment from 15 per cent to 22 per cent, according to the CEO of Jordan Garment Exporters Association (JGate). JGate CEO Rashed Darwazeh said the association received scenarios from five different factories on the effect of the increase in labour salaries and fuel prices. "A scenario of one factory that manufactures 1.8 million pieces of garments showed that the cost will rise by JD250, 000 p

The director-general of anti-dumping and allied duties has commenced probe into alleged ?umping?of Chinese silk fabrics in India. The investigation has been initiated on a petition filed by the Central Silk Board (CSB) on behalf of domestic silk producers who claim to be losing out to low priced Chinese silk fabric imports. However, cheap and high grade Chinese silk fabrics are in demand from the silk apparel manufacturers. The Chinese silk fabrics being a key raw material for apparel, the app

Before Sino-U.S. Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade opening, the second round of talks over the textile trade row with the United States will begin. According to news from Ministry of Com-merce yesterday, bilateral representatives will begin to negotiate textile trade issue in terms of tech-nique, today in Beijing. Some relational person under the Ministry of Commerce believed that as a preparing activity for Sino-U.S. Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, this meeting would be hard to mak

China Textile and Apparel Industry Competition Capacity 2005, which is sponsored by China National Textile and Apparel Council, will be held in People''s Congress Hall, Beijing on August 9, 2005.From this year, the Conference will release the "Competition Capacity List" in the sectors of chemical fibre, cotton textile, silk, linen textile, knitting, textile machinery, wool textile, cotton printing and dyeing every year. The top 100 of sales income, top 100 of export, top 50 of sales income will

The two textile producing majors, China and India are expected to make tie-up in search of joint potentials in the textiles industry. The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (Texprocil) has invited a Chinese textile machinery manufacturers?delegation to visit India.The delegation will show off its line of exclusive textile machinery at the major textile centers of India.This arrangement is made by Indian textile manufacturers to become more competitive in the global market by imitating Chin

Addressing a meeting organized by Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) at the Chamber? office, Federal Secretary for Ministry of Commerce, Tasneem Noorani stated that Pakistan will be qualified for the Generalized Specific Preference (GSP) status from January 2006.The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) was designed to allow industrialized countries to grant non-reciprocal tariff reductions to developing countries. The underlying idea was to help the developing world industrialize

As per the data of National Bureau of Statistics, the fabric output kept rising quickly in June, reach at 3.391 billion meters. The total fabric output in Jan.-June was 17.284 billion meters, increasing 19.89% year on year. During the same period, the cotton fabric output was 9.253 billion meters, jumping 27.42% year on year. The cotton fabric output accounts 54% of the total fabric output. The biggest spinning provinces of Shangdong and Jiangsu are also leading in the fabric output. From Jan. t

Country's local fabric markets have become flooded with cheaper and low quality imported foreign fabric, specially from China and India through under-invoicing and false declaration. As a result, many local textile mills are now on the verge of closure. Production at most of the small and large local textile mills has also drastically fallen.Traders of shirting and suiting fabrics at Islampur market, the largest wholesale market of locally manufactured fabrics said the demand of foreign fabrics,

Cotton textile manufacturers, farmers and merchants are strongly opposed to the Bush administration? plans immediately to eliminate subsidy payments that have been a key element in the US government? cotton competitiveness program. Under that program? so-called step two, textile mills and merchants are paid the difference between the domestic price for cotton and the world price when the world price is lower than the domestic price. By law, US textile manufacturers are virtually prohibited from

US based largest textile group International Textile Group Inc announced it will fabricate a state-of-the-art denim plant in the city of Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China. The operation will be a joint venture partnership called Cone Denim (Jiaxing) Limited, 51% owned by a subsidiary of ITG (a WL Ross & Co. company) and 49% owned by a subsidiary of Novel Holdings Limited (owned by the Chou family).Wilbur Ross, Chairman of ITG, commented, "This initiative for Cone Denim establishes another ma