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RUSSIA’S BEAUTY INDUSTRY IN SUSPENSE OVER LOOMING PERFUME LABELLING
Businesses across the personal care product sector have expressed concern about a comprehensive national digital marking and traceability system that the Russian government plans to comprehensively put in place by 2024. A limited selection of products are being used to trial the system from the New Year and this includes perfumes.…
VIETNAM TO PRESENT ROADMAP FOR INNOVATION AND MODERNISATION OF TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY
THE VIETNAMESE government’s Institute for Industry Policy and Strategy (IPS) has said that it will present a “review and roadmap for innovation and modernisation of textile technology” before the end of the year to speed up innovation in the sectors.
The roadmap will contain a comprehensive system of solutions including human resource training, investment promotion, preferential loans and changes to regulations of Vietnam’s National Technology Innovation Fund, a state financial institution that provides preferential loans, subsidised loan interest and loan guarantees as well as granting expenses to organisations, individuals and enterprises that carry out research, technology transfer and innovation.…
USA POLYSTER TEXTURED YARN IMPORTERS AWAIT LIKELY DECEMBER APPROVAL OF HEAVY PROTECTIVE DUTIES ON INDIAN AND CHINESE SUPPLIES
USA polyester textured yarn importers sourcing from China and India are being forced to pay deposits on their cargoes covering anticipated heavy anti-dumping and countervailing duties which could be imposed in the New Year. These traders and their manufacturing partners are awaiting a decision from the US International Trade Commission (ITC) in late December over claims from the US department of commerce (DoC) that Indian and Chinese yarn makers are both being unfairly subsidised by their government and dumping cheap excess production on American markets.…
INDONESIA TO INNOVATE IN RAYON PRODUCTION AS IT SEEKS INDUSTRY 4.0 COMPETITIVE EDGE
INDONESIA is seeking to diversify its fibre production, developing new ways of utilising this country’s significant biomass to produce fibres such as rayon to create low-cost and quality clothing and achieve global competitiveness, the country’s industry ministry has told WTiN.com.
“The Indonesian textile and clothing sector is headed in a new direction, with rayon serving as a substitute for cotton,” said Muhdori, the ministry’s director of the textile, leather and footwear industry.…
NASCENT HYDROGEN CAR MARKET STARTS TO DEVELOP IN EUROPE
THE DEVELOPMENT and use of hydrogen-fuelled automobiles is starting to gather pace in the European Union (EU), with the EU’s executive, the European Commission encouraging growth in this environment-friendly segment as it pursues a goal of achieving a climate-neutral Europe by 2050.…
ASEAN TEXTILE MANUFACTURING CENTRES UPGRADING BACKWARD LINKAGE TECHNOLOGIES WITH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF IMPORTS
KEY textile manufacturing countries in southeast Asia are investing in new machinery to upgrade their textile technology, boosting backward linkages as they seek to strengthen and update local supply chains, international trade data shows. While that level of investment in imports seems to have declined in 2018, key textile manufacturing Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc countries have been importing millions of dollars of new machinery, helping them make the most of trade deals that can insist in local fabric, yarn and fibre sourcing.…
SALES OF LARGER PASSENGER VEHICLES IN CANADA CONTINUE TO GROW, BECOMING DOMINANT OVER STANDARD CAR PURCHASES SAYS LATEST DATA
SALES of light trucks – SUVs, CUVs, pick-ups and minivans – are rising in Canada, and the big question is how dominant this segment may become in this north American market. Sales hit 70.9% of the passenger vehicle market according to new 2018 data from Ontario-based DesRosiers Automotive Consultants Inc.…
USDA RELEASES NEW RULES ON LEGALISED HEMP FIBRE PRODUCTION – SURGE OF APPLICATIONS EXPECTED
AMERICAN textile manufacturers and farmers can start working in earnest to develop nationwide production of hemp fibre, after the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released detailed and comprehensive regulations on how production and processing should be authorised and regulated.
USDA’s guidance has been awaited by the textile industry since the USA’s 2018 farm bill legalised hemp as an agricultural commodity, removing it from the federal list of controlled substances, as long as it did not contain more than 0.3% THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the element that gives consumers of recreational and medicinal cannabis their high.…
MALAWI HOLDS TALKS WITH USA, AFTER CUSTOMS ORDER RESTRICTS TOBACCO IMPORTS OVER CHILD LABOUR CONCERNS
MALAWI’s government has said it has entered into talks with the USA government after the USA Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency issued an ‘withhold release order’ on imports of products containing Malawi tobacco over concerns that child labour continues in the southern African country’s leaf production and processing sector.…
BHUTAN SEES POTENTIAL IN NATURAL YAK WOOL AND RELATED PRODUCTS AS POTENTIAL IMPORTANT EXPORT EARNER
GOVERNMENT agencies in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan are taking steps to develop products and fabrics made from yak hair, eyeing potentially lucrative sales of a rare fabric, whose profile could be boosted by the country’s growing tourism industry.
The Bhutanese government is proactively developing handcraft traditions of spinning hair from yaks, of which more than 30,000 are herded in Bhutan’s generally mountainous terrain.…