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OTHER JURISDICTIONS ARE ALSO DEVELOPING AUTO DATA RULES – USA & SOUTH KOREA
The challenges facing European automakers are not unique, given data protection laws are being developed around the world. In the USA, a California Consumer Privacy Act came into force in January (2020) and contains significant requirements for how businesses collect, retain and use personal information – see https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375…
EDUCATION OFFICIALS WARN ZAMBIAN GOVERNMENT IT MAYBE ENDING LOCKDOWN TOO EARLY
THE ZAMBIAN government’s plan to start reopening universities on July 1 has sparked serious concerns in among senior high education officials that the move is coming too early, and could see Covid-19 spread like wildfire amongst the student body and academics.…
EV CONTACTLESS RECHARGING TECHNOLOGIES BEING DEVELOPED FOR MARKET WORLDWIDE
THE NEED to actively recharge electric vehicles makes them less attractive to consumers, especially when batteries can take eight hours to charge. So, the development of ambient technologies that enable EVs to charge themselves as they operate has been a key focus of automotive R&D.…
CANADIAN PARTS MAKERS ANTICIPATE BIG RISE IN ORDERS ONCE IMMINENT USMCA STARTS OPERATING
CANADA’S Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association (APMA) is optimistic that the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) will deliver more sustained work to the country’s supply chain once the deal comes into force on July 1. It replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), in place since 1994.…
UK OVERSEAS TERRITIORIES MOVE SLOWLY TOWARDS CREATION OF PUBLIC UBO REGISTERS
THE UK’s overseas territories are struggling with something of an existential crisis, as they face an effective 2023 deadline for introducing publicly accessible beneficial ownership registers that could undermine their ability to offer confidential financial services to companies and wealthy individuals.…
TUNISIA’S GARMENT INDUSTRY DEVELOPS POST-COVID NEAR-SHORING STRATEGY
Tunisia’s textile and clothing industry association, the FTTH (Fédération tunisienne du textile-habillement) has commissioned a report on the impact of Covid-19 on this outsourcing centre, including policy options to enable its companies to recover. It will work with the Middle East and north African wing of the Global Textiles and Clothing Programme (GTEX/MENATEX) over two months to generate a post-pandemic plan.…
SRI LANKA’S CLOTHING SECTOR STRUGGLES BACK TO WORK AMIDST TOUGH AND UNEVEN GOVERNMENT COVID-19 HEALTH CONTROLS.
COVID-19 has taken its toll on Sri Lanka’s textile and clothing sector, with exports forecast to plummet for 2021 (the financial year ending March) from a target of USD5.6 billion, by USD1.7 billion to USD3.9 billion, falling 30% year-on-year for April 2020 to March 2021, the country’s national clothing industry told just-style.…
CLOTHING AND TEXTILE FIRMS INNOVATE WITH ANTI-MICROBIAL FABRICS AND PRODUCTS, MEETING DEMAND FUELLED BY COVID-19
TEXTILE and fibre innovators worldwide are seeking to tap growing demand for antimicrobial, virus and bacteria killing fibres and fabrics generated by the Covid-19 pandemic, encouraging clothing and fabric-makers to develop groundbreaking new technology.
Indeed, for companies such as HeiQ Materials AG – a Switzerland based textile innovation specialist – the pandemic has “opened a whole new chapter for the development of antimicrobial surfaces and textiles”, its co-founder and CEO Carlo Centonze told just-style.…
MOROCCO BEGINS PRODUCTION OF TEST-ORDERS FOR FASHION CLIENTS AHEAD OF RELAXATION OF COVID-19 CONFINEMENT.
Morocco’s clothing manufacturing sector has pivoted to making medical supplies to cope with the flood of cancelled orders from hard hit European customers that marked the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic – developing textile backward linkages that could strengthen the industry for the future.…
INDIAN CLOTHING EXPORT MANUFACTURERS FACE LABOUR SHORTAGES AS OVERSEAS ORDERS RESUME
Export-oriented Indian garment manufacturers emerging from lockdown are struggling to meet their new export order delivery schedule due to severe labour shortages caused by continuing migration of workers to their families’ traditional village homes. These problems have persisted, despite the government on June 1 lifting the Covid-19 related lockdown that had prevented factories operating without special permission.…