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When the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded in the first half of 2020, China’s textile industry quickly increased its nonwoven-based supply capacity of protective masks, medical protective clothing, isolation clothing and other emergency prevention and control materials.

Data compiled by the China National Textile and Apparel Council show that the country’s output of nonwoven products recorded a robust year-on-year growth of 14.4% in in the first eleven months of 2020.…

If the international food industry wanted to look for a national market segment that is growing fast and offers real sales volumes, it would do well to examine the Indian cheese market. Sales are projected to reach USD1.7 billion by 2024, according to by India-based market researcher IMARC, being predicted to increase 25% annually from a base of USD430 million in 2018 – see ‘Cheese Market in India: Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2019-2024’ (1).…

THE INDIAN clothing and textile manufacturing sector is facing renewed disruption as India is hit by a brutal second wave of Covid-19.

“Labour has [partially] gone, production is down and demand is falling,” Sanjay Arora, business director at consultancy firm Wazir Advisors told just-style.…

THE MYANMAR clothing industry is struggling to operate effectively as political unrest continues following the seizure of power by the country’s military on February 1.

Garment manufacturers, most of whom have been located in the country’s commercial capital Yangon, had been a major employer and a significant source of foreign currency for Myanmar.…

THE WIDE diversity of AML laws worldwide can complicate the enforcement of AML/CFT extradition proceedings.

Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations 37 and 39 say that governments should be prepared to extradite money launderers (and terrorist financiers) to another country if they both criminalise the underlying predicate offence.…

Demand for knitting machines in China has been recovering remarkably fast from the Covid-19 crisis, with Chinese textile factory owners growing bolder in investment decisions, and exports to south Asia growing too.

Chinese knitting machine-makers Suzhou ReHow Machinery Manufacturing and Fujian Taifan Industrial, which supply mainly T-shirt fabrics single jersey circular knitting machines, saw their sales dip in 2020 but not to a dramatically low level.…

THE MYANMAR clothing industry is struggling to operate effectively as political unrest continues following the seizure of power by the country’s military on February 1.

Garment manufacturers, most of whom have been located in the country’s commercial capital Yangon, had been a major employer and a significant source of foreign currency for Myanmar.…

Covid-19 has reshaped commercial crime, and one lucrative offence taking a real turn for the worse is tobacco smuggling and counterfeiting. Keith Nuthall reports.

The Covid-19 pandemic has depressed incomes worldwide and forced lower income smokers to look for cheap smokes, which has included counterfeits or smuggled goods.…

There is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic has fuelled the black-market trade in illicit and smuggled licit tobacco products. The disease has depressed income and forced lower income smokers to look for cheap smokes, which has included counterfeits or smuggled goods.…

The suspension of orders by clothing brands because of Covid-19 has not just been a problem for apparel manufacturers – the suppliers of these companies, including textile manufacturers, weavers, finishers, yarn producers and even fibre makers, have all suffered. With work drying up for manufacturers, upstream suppliers have lost orders.…