CHINA will allow its textile exporters to begin bidding on next year's US quotas early next month, a move that follows a deal signed earlier this month to reimpose quotas on 21 categories of Chinese textile shipments to the United States. The online auction, constituting 60 percent of all quotas set for public bidding for next year, will run from 8am on December 6 through midnight December 8, China's Ministry of Commerce said on its Website. All companies that have exported the covered products

Australian Wool Innovation Limited (AWI) informed the Chinese textile exports results for EU.It stated that China increased the amount of textiles it exports to the EU by about 40 percent in the first eight months of the year.The EU's total textile imports were only up by 2.1 percent in value and 2 percent in volume, however, meaning China's growth has come at the expense of other countries. The figures highlight the fact that developing countries are suffering as a result of the removal of text

Textile exporters from Pakistan, Thailand, South Korea, Thailand, Philippines and Bangladesh are facing stiff competition from Chinese textile makers in the European Union textile market in the free trade era since beginning, this year.Pakistan's textile export share eroded to 16.3 percent in the first eight months this year, indicate EU statistics. At the same time, Chinese exports jumped by whooping 40 percent.On the other hand Asian textile exporters from South Korea, Thailand and Bangladesh,

A World Bank report has officially confirmed China as the winner in the post-quota era. Other countries gaining in the first half of 2005 include Bangladesh, Cambodia and Sri Lanka. China tops the list of countries gaining most in value terms of export increase in the first six months of the year following quota phase out. The report asserts China's market share had been artificially held back by quotas, especially in the US and EU. The textile and apparel boom in world markets from low-cost c

Reversing the deteriorating trend and giving a brief boost to the passive situations that had afflicted activity across the region's MEG markets, prices (MEG) last week in Asia soared.Sources among sellers said the current situation bodes well, and though contract negotiations for December are being sought, spot markets continue remain passive.Buyer on the spot cargoes quoted less than $770/mt CFR Asia mark, a price which sellers are overlooking and instead, supported by the renewed interest in

Dai Nippon Printing and Ozaki Shoji, in collaboration have built a new system which handles an entire individual cloth piece for wear products with the help of IC tags. Ozaki is to launch this system at its plant in Miyakonojo City, Miyazaki Prefecture from late November. To record a material code of every cloth and to measure the width and remaining length in metre, a re-writable IC tag is fastened to every cloth. The handy reader/writer is applied to write down the remaining length a

Ministry of Commerce (MOC) of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) announced the first 2006 year's 'open the beautiful textile export licensing quantity' tender. The business trade sends [ 2005 ] according to " textile export licensing quantity tender implementation regulation " 502, hereafter refers to as " regulation" the related stipulation, presently opens 2006 year the beautiful textile export licensing quantity first tender related item announcement as follows: One, tender way S

The United States Congress has appropriated $13 million to support the National Textile Center (NTC). The funding is for research designed to make the U.S. textile industry more competitive globally. This is the highest level of funding the NTC has ever received, and it represents a 30% increase over Fiscal Year 2005. Senator Richard Shelby (Republican - Alabama, chairman of the Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Subcommittee, noted that Congress considers increased funding for

U.S. and Chinese trade representatives have announced a three-year agreement aimed at reining in U.S. imports of Chinese textile and apparel products in all or parts of 34 sensitive categories. Ambassador Rob Portman, the U.S. Trade Representative, and Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai signed the pact in London where they were attending a meeting of World Trade Organization members Nov. 8. The agreement, the result of nearly two months of negotiations, could help stop surges in Chinese te

In the recent times, South Korea imposed dumping duties against polyester (PE) textured yarn manufacturers from Taiwan, Malaysia, and China.Among Taiwan's textile producers on the list were Lealea Enterprise Co, Tun Yun Textile Co, and Hualong Corp.Following the appeals of traders and producers of textile industry, South Korea's government carried out anti-dumping study of PE textured yarn manufacturers of Taiwan, Malaysia and China from July 2004 to June 2005.Countries which have breached the a