At the Fashion Business event held in Rio de Janeiro, the Director-Superintendent of the Brazilian Textile and Clothing Industry Association (ABIT), Fernando Pimentel, informed that the textile exports climb by 11.65 percent to $804.45 million in the first five months of 2005, compared with the same period in the year 2004.However this is considerably down than what was attained in the same period of previous year, when exports increased 19.77 percent in compared to the same period in year 2003.

The International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO) announces the details for the entries to the prestigious 2006 World Wool Award. It will take place in Egypt in 2006.Discover your passion for wool!Sponsored by The Woolmark Company, the World Wool Award celebrates wool? unique natural performance properties and versatility, stimulates future designs and product development innovations with wool and communicates marketing and promotional ideas for wool products.The aim of this project is to promo

In 1994, members of the World Trade Organization agreed to eliminate global textile and apparel import quotas by the start of 2005. The aim was to significantly increase developing countries' exports, and thus help lift millions of workers in these countries out of poverty. Textile trade associations throughout the world now fear that the quota-lifting will cost 30 million textile jobs, many in developing countries on the front line of the war on terrorism, where social unrest is a real and cons

At North Carolina State University, nuclear and textile engineers have joined forces with textile scientists from Egypt to create textiles that have permanent antimicrobial properties. Dr. Mohamed A. Bourham, professor of nuclear engineering, and Dr. Marian G. McCord, associate professor of textile engineering, chemistry and science and biomedical engineering, are working with Professor Samiha Gawish and Ameera Ramadan from the National Research Center in Cairo, Egypt, to produce this new genera

The Ministry of Commerce issued provisional rules on an export quota allocation system late Sunday that determines how much individual Chinese textile manufacturers are allowed to sell to foreign markets. Domestic textile firms exporting to ?ountries or regions that impose limitations on Chinese textile exports, or to those that have temporary quantity limitations on Chinese textiles according to bilateral agreements?are required to apply to regulators for temporary export approval permits begin

Mr.Xu Kunyuan, vice president of the China National Textile & Apparel Council, told the journalists that China's tex-tile industry had entered a crucial phase of upgrading instead of simple expansion in quantity. Xu pointed out that in recent years, especially after the abolishment of textile quotas this year, the rapid growth of China's textile exports in the international market had stimulated hostile responses of some concerned organizations in Europe and the US. Some countries, one after

Myanmar has found new export markets in Latin American countries for its garment products with 25 percent of them being exported to such nations as Mexico, Argentina and Brazil in the continent, a local press reported Monday.The value of orders going to Latin America is not as high as that going to the Europe, the Myanmar Times quoted a local businessman as saying.Garment exports from Myanmar dropped by 60 percent from 327 million US dollars in the fiscal year 2003-04 to 216 million US dollars i

The textile industry of Bangladesh, at present in dilemma due to a significant gap takes place in demand and supply for yarn and fabric. The problem is likely to grow bigger, if the appropriate actions to stop this widening gap are not taken soon. The demand is increased dramatically, as the population and the standard of living is increasing in the country. Thus, it shows an insistent need to raise the production capacities of spinning, weaving, knitting, and dyeing, printing, and finishing sub

The confederation of Malaysian Textile, General Goods and Garment Merchants Association urged the government to remove import duties on textile and apparel to enhance the industry's production capacity to organize for the global competition.Deputy Information Minister Datuk Donald Lim Siang Chai informed that the petition was submitted previous month to the Economic Planning Unit of the Prime Minister's Department.He stated that the association was directed to submit the petition again to the Fi

Commerce Ministry of China informed that it would implement a temporary textile licensing system to restrain export growth.As per a statement of the Ministry, Chinese textile producers have to apply for a license that will show their exports limits based on their exports for the last year. The new regulation will be effective from July 20, 2005. The EU and The US has imposed quotas on the textile import from China, as they had claimed that the cheap textile products of China has surge their dome