Ho Chi Minh City Export Center has hosted a leather, footwear, textile and garment export fair that began on Saturday, March 11 2006, showcasing most modern and latest items. Vu Thi Kim Hanh, Director, informed that the Investment and Trade Promotion Center and, the Shoes and Leather Association plan to conduct as well as participate in special programs to attract overseas customers. Training programs and trade expos will be organized in HCMC and Dusseldorf, Germany, in July as well as at

The value of bilateral trade between the two countries reached nearly US$8.2bil last year. Vietnam's exports to Japan earned $4.56bil, an increase of 20.3% over 2004 while the country imported $3.6bil of goods from Japan, a 15,3% increase from the previous year, the office reported. Vietnam exported fresh flowers, high-quality clothing and processed food to the Japanese market last year, in addition to traditional products including garments, seafood, crude oil, electric cables, coal, furniture

According to recently released US department of Commerce data, US apparel imports in January from China have clearly been hit by large falls in sensitive quota categories. This comes following embargoes last year created a sense of uncertainty amongst US retailers. Orders have instead been redirected to other low-cost Asian producers such as Bangladesh and India. Apparel imports from China into the US have been affected by significant decreases in limited categories, the US Department of Comm

The Brazilian govenment will begin to control the entry of Chinese textile products starting on April 3. The voluntary restriction accord, settled between Brazil and China on March 3, will prevail between 2006 and 2008. The accord establishes limits for 8 types of Chinese imports: velvets, embroidered goods, knitted shirts, polyester textured threads, sythetic fibers, silk fabrics, sweaters, and pullovers. The 8 groups cover 76 different items that correspond to 76% of the imports in this area.O

Chinese textile industry is expected to record a 20 percent rise in value earnings and 10 percent increase in yarn and chemical fibre production in 2006 over last year.As for the exports, a 15 percent growth in textile and garment exports is foreseen.China Textile Industry Association reported that the emphasis will be on industrial restructuring, upgrading and independent innovation.Industry will need to tackle problems like inadequate independent innovation capacity, acute structural contradic

A senior Commerce Official of Chinese Ministry is urging the European Union to reconsider its proposed sanction on Chinese shoes imports.The EU's proposed plan to impose anti-dumping duty on imported Chinese shoes is unjust and lack of legitimacy, said Wang Shichun, Director-General of the Commerce Ministry's bureau of fair trade for imports and exports.He said that the Chinese side urged the EU to consider the reasonable requests of the accused enterprises, fully and reasonably reassess and jud

Experts say that the demand for fine wool apparel has grown dramatically in Europe, which will surely benefit Australia's wool exports.The leading casual wear clothing retailer, Benetton, reports that wool is fast becoming popular and hence, the company is planning to introduce new segments, especially for this wool boom.Major Fashion Designers including Dolce and Gabana, Armani, and Misoni, make use of wool extensively in their collections.The wool market again made strong gains this week, fini

China's textile industry is projected to register a year-on-year growth of about 20 per cent in gross output value, 15 per cent in textiles and garment export, and 10 per cent in yarn and chemical fiber output in 2006, according to the China Textile Industry Association. The figures indicate that the growth of the textile industry will largely remain steady this year. Meanwhile, the association says, acceleration in industrial restructuring and upgrading and independent innovation will be

With China's cotton market shortfallexpected to reach 4 million tons this year, thousands of textile producers are under pressure from rising costs and insufficient supplies of raw cotton materials. Chen Junliang, chairman of the Jiangsu Cotton & Fiber Group in east China's Jiangsu Province said that textile producers have been scrambling for cotton purchase quotas, which are usually inclined to big companies. Du Min, a research fellow with the Rural Economic Research Center under the Mi

Leveling the stiff competition with India, Chinese textile machinery manufacturers keep their prices equal to Indian counterparts. China Texmatech, located in India, the overseas marketing subsidiary of China Hengtina Group (CHG) had sold machines at 20 percent lower prices than Indian manufacturers in July 2005. But now, Chinese machinery is available between prices Rs2200 and Rs3500 per spindle, while Indian machines are pegged at from Rs2400 to Rs3200. Chinese officials said that price