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AS THE US-CHINA TRADE WAR DRAGS ON, BRANDS AND RETAILERS CAN TURN UNCERTAINTY INTO OPPORTUNITY
Trade negotiators from the United States and China will meet for the second week in a row this Wednesday or Thursday, in what the American clothing sector hopes could be the final round of talks to resolve the trade war.
US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told Fox Business last week they hope to get to “the point where we can either recommend to the president we have a deal, or make a recommendation that we don’t,” emphasising the United States wants to “rebalance” the trade relationship.…
WORLD’S SMALLEST COMMERCIAL RUNWAY REBUILT – IN SABA, DUTCH CARIBBEAN
THE WORLD’S shortest commercially-operated runway has been rebuilt, with a new concrete surface replacing the previous degraded asphalt at Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport, on Saba, a Dutch Caribbean island. The runway spans just 400 metres overlooking steep cliffs serving an island which is a dormant volcano with few stretches of flat land.…
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AIRPORT SECTOR EXPANDS AS AIR TRAFFIC PUSHES FACILITIES TOWARDS CAPACITY LIMITS
AFRICA is without doubt the continent to watch for airport and air traffic control investment in the future. It is the world’s second most populous continent (home to more than 1.2 billion people), and according to Airports Council International (World) – ACI World – Africa was the fastest growing region for air passenger traffic in 2017 and 2018, which rose 6.3% in 2017 year-on-year and 10.8% in 2018 to June year-to-date, year-on-year.…
EU RELEASES NEW EXPLOSIVES PRECURSORS CONTROLS
THE TEXTILE dying industry and its suppliers will have to check compliance with a new European Union (EU) regulation on the marketing and use of explosives precursors, approved by the European Parliament last month (April 16). Its rules have been designed to increase licensing and controls so that terror groups cannot source chemicals they can use to launch violent attacks.…
EU RESEARCH INTO COLLOIDS COULD OPEN DOOR TO NEW DYES DEVELOPMENT
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is funding an international research project that is developing new fast ways of making colloids – mixtures of one substance comprising insoluble microscopic particles suspended in another substance. These materials can include dyes, but the process of making colloids can be very slow, limiting industrial applications.…
AMERICAN MEAT INDUSTRY FEDERATIONS WORRY ABOUT CHINA RESPONSE TO NEW 25% USA TARIFFS
Members of the USA meat industry, already buckling under the impact of previous Chinese retaliatory tariffs against their goods, are expressing cautious concern following the US imposition of 25% tariffs against an additional USD200 billion of Chinese exports.
Kent Bacus, senior director of international trade at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), said that while his body supports the ongoing trade talks interrupted by this tariff hike, notably the Trump administration’s efforts “to open the Chinese market for US beef and other agricultural goods,” a Chinese duty increase would cause problems.…
USA UPDATES ITS NATIONAL POULTRY IMPROVEMENT PLAN
THE US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is set to release proposed reforms to the country’s National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP), a decades-old cooperative federal-state-industry mechanism for controlling poultry disease threats.
APHIS said the revisions were discussed at the NPIP biennial conference held last June (2018) and will incorporate the latest science, technology and best practices in the sector.…
USA INCREASES TO 25% ADDITIONAL DUTIES ON CHINESE MEAT EXPORTS
THE US government has raised its existing 10% additional duties on imports of meat and livestock sector products from China to 25% from today (May 10), citing a lack of progress on ongoing trade talks between the world’s two largest national economies.…
EU RELEASES NEW EXPLOSIVES PRECURSORS CONTROLS
THE TEXTILE dying industry and its suppliers will have to check compliance with a new European Union (EU) regulation on the marketing and use of explosives precursors, approved by the European Parliament last month (April 16). Its rules have been designed to increase licensing and controls so that terror groups cannot source chemicals they can use to launch violent attacks.…
USA UPDATES ITS NATIONAL POULTRY IMPROVEMENT PLAN
THE US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is set to release proposed reforms to the country’s National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP), a decades-old cooperative federal-state-industry mechanism for controlling poultry disease threats.
APHIS said the revisions were discussed at the NPIP biennial conference held last June (2018) and will incorporate the latest science, technology and best practices in the sector.…