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

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao stated that China and the United States should appropriately hold their problems in trade and economic cooperation through fair dialogue and consultation. Wen made the marks when meeting with US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, Trade Representative Robert Portman and Secretary of Agriculture Michael Johanns, who are here for a China-US trade and economic joint committee annual meeting. "Trade and economic cooperation are important component parts of Sino-US rela

Chinese textile industry worries that the US may impose new safeguard measures on additional categories of Chinese textile imports.US textile groups have filed petitions to the Bush administration asking for additional safeguard measures on shirts, skirts, pyjamas and swimwear from China. They claim that imports of these clothes from China have surged sharply since the global quota on the textile trade was eliminated on January 1. All China's textile exporters, whether involved or not involved,

Germany based largest leather chemical specialist LANXESS offers colorimetrics and more Web-based service devoted to pigments used in leather manufacture Meeting customer needs swiftly and accurately. Web-based service devoted to pigments used in leather manufacture.The Leather Business Unit of LANXESS Deutschland GmbH is using a web-based colorimetrics and color formulation system to integrate all its expertise in color standardization and formulation relating to leather finishing pigments. As

BEIJING, July 12 -- Tang-style water-lily trousers, Dunhuang Flying Grottos-style vests, Tang-style banquets... the flavor of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) prevail in ancient Xi'an City this summer, forming a beautiful scene in the lives of people. Fashionable clothing derived from Tang apparels have become the first-choice of beautiful young women in Xi'an. Many of them dress themselves in bright, colorful and lively Tang-style water-lily trousers and lotus-sleeves tights with peony blossoms

China countered EU's anti-dumping probe on Chinese shoes, saying "It lacks a legal basis and realistic proof." The EU's investigation is expected to involve more than 1,200 Chinese enterprises with 670 million US dollars in value, according to the website of the Ministry of Commerce (MOC). MOC spokesman Chong Quan said the Chinese government attaches great importance to the case. Shoes are one of China's major export items. The shoe-making industry concerns a large portion of its workforce. The

US textile, apparel and fiber producing trade associations announced the filing of four safeguard petitions covering eight categories to limit the growth of US textile and apparel imports from China on Monday, July 11. The industry also announced that it had refiled a petition on curtains on June 22 that the US government rejected for technical reasons on June 21.Click to view Petitions filed for US safeguards:The China Year to Date Increase for the shirt, skirt, and pajamas/nightwear categories

Chinese Minister of Commerce, Bo Xilai opined that China is commitment to encourage present multilateral trade system. At the meeting with European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson, Bo said that China has been always holding a "responsible attitude" to the world trade system. Bo met Mandelson a day before the informal ministerial meeting is kicked off in Dalian. The two-day meeting will take stock of the Doha Development Agenda negotiations and discuss the progress of the "First App