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CANADIAN AUTO DEALERS HOPE PENT-UP COVID-19 ERA DEMAND WILL BOOST SALES IN RECESSIONAL 2023
Canadian automakers and dealers are hoping that unsatisfied demand for new autos that grew during the Covid-19 pandemic will be released in 2023 and enable sales to rise during a year when most economists predict Canada will tip into a mild recession.…
NEW HIGHER EDUCATION LAW ADOPTS ONLINE TEACHING AND BODY FOR ACCREDITATION OF COURSES
A new higher education law recently approved in December (2022) in Mozambique establishes and extends the power of the National Council for the Assessment of Higher Education Quality (CNAQ – Conselho Nacional de Avaliação da Qualidade) to undertake quality assurance in the country’s higher education.…
DUTCH UNIVERSITIES OPPOSE EDUCATION MINISTER’S PROPOSAL TO STOP ACTIVE RECRUITMENT OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
The Netherlands’ education, culture and science minister Robbert Dijkgraaf’s call for universities and universities of applied sciences (UAS) to stop participating in international education fairs until further notice would be a step too far, university chairs have told University World News (UWN).…
TURKISH TOBACCO LEAF PRODUCERS FACE ECONOMIC AND CLIMATE CHALLENGES – BUT PROTECTIONISM MAY HELP THEM SURVIVE
Turkey is the world’s largest Oriental tobacco leaf producer, but harvests have been impacted over the past two years by unusually hot summers and drought. Ranking 15th in tobacco production worldwide, according to the Izmir-based Aegean Tobacco Exporters’ Association (ATEA), the 2022 tobacco crop is expected to be like 2021.…
DEVELOPING TRACEABLE PIGMENTS TECH OFFERS MEANS OF ENSURING CELLULOSE FIBRES ARE SUSTAINABLE
Traceable pigments are increasingly being used as a favoured trackable method to help textile and garment companies prove that cellulosic fibres utilised in fabric and final products have been made according to high social and environmental sustainability standards. With regulation, non-financial reporting and green consumer demand pushing the industry towards using fabrics that are demonstrably sustainable, cellulosic fibres derived from wood pulp and other woody plants such as bamboo, have become more attractive as inputs.…
NEW EU PACKAGING TARGETS TOO CHALLENGING, TOBACCO EXPERTS SAY
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s new proposal for a European Union (EU) packaging and packaging waste regulation (1) is not realistic, European tobacco experts have told Tobacco Journal International (TJI). Their comments come as negotiations begin between the Commission (the EU’s executive), the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers – representing member states – on the draft text.…
BREXIT HAS FAILED TO DELIVER LIBERALISATION TO TOBACCO SECTOR, WHILE TRADING BECOMES MAJOR HEADACHE
Britain’s Brexit from the European Union (EU), in full from December 31, 2020, may have freed the UK government from having to follow EU tobacco legislation, except for Northern Ireland, which remains within the EU’s single market for goods, but the tobacco sector is struggling to see benefits.…
USA UNDER PRESSURE FROM CLOTHING INDUSTRY TO AUTHORISE DIGITAL PRODUCT PASSPORTSUSA UNDER PRESSURE FROM CLOTHING INDUSTRY TO AUTHORISE DIGITAL PRODUCT PASSPORTS
The USA’s Congress and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which protects American consumer rights, are coming under pressure to amend US labelling laws so that digital labels replace the material and printed labels that have been growing – in size and complexity.…
EU TEXTILE EXPERTS GIVE CAUTIOUS WELCOME TO DIGITAL PRODUCT PASSPORTS
EUROPEAN textile businesses are gearing up to implement new European Union (EU) digital product passports (DPPs), that an EU official told Textile 4.0 will “require a re-thinking of how textile supply chains work”.
Plans for these passports – which are expected to become mandatory for companies selling into the EU – were announced in the EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles (1) and the eco-design for sustainable products regulation (ESPR) (2), released by the European Commission on March 30, 2022, as part of the EU’s circular economy reform package.…
INDIA COMBINES TEXTILE MANUFACTURING STRENGTH WITH IT KNOWHOW TO FULFILL PRODUCT PASSPORT REQUIREMENTS
India’s textile sector is working with the country’s strong IT industry and professionals to deliver monitoring and labelling systems that comply with forthcoming digital product passport (DPP) requirements being pioneered especially in the European Union (EU). Its executive, the EU, released plans last March (2022), to pass rules that would insist that products, including textile lines, are released with detailed electronic information demonstrating that their materials sourcing and final manufacture are sustainable.…