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BY MJ DESCHAMPS

THE UNITED States Trade Representative has proposed a ‘yarn forward’ rule within negotiations for Washington to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, to protect the US textile industry from Vietnam’s state-subsidised textile enterprises. America and Vietnam want to join the TPP, currently including Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore.…

BY MARGUERITE-JEANNE DESCHAMPS, MINI PANT ZACHARIAH and WANG FANGQING

While sales of alcohol in pubs and bars in North America, Europe and the UK have seen a steady decline since the global economic downturn, experts are saying the shift from on-trade to off-trade sales of alcohol has not really had a financial impact on the alcoholic beverage industry as a whole.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and DAVE YIN

THIS has been the year where the European Union (EU) considered imposing a draconian origin labelling law that would have been a major headache for knitwear manufacturers and retailers. In the winter, the European Parliament was seriously discussing insisting on a regulation forcing knitwear and crocheted clothes and accessories imports into the EU to carry country of origin labels.…

BY GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE and KEITH NUTHALL

IT is more than 18 months since the earthquake that ravaged Haiti seriously damaged Toussaint L’Ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, notably its air traffic control tower, rendering it unusable. The airport suffered structural damage to its terminal building walls and there were some major electrical faults.…

BY MARGUERITE-JEANNE DESCHAMPS, MINI PANT ZACHARIAH and WANG FANGQING

Convenience stores in developed markets remain a much sought after retail outlet for beverage manufacturers. They are widespread, always open, and their limited product selection allows consumers to easily pick out their favourites and discover a new drink being promoted by marketing departments.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WHILE Japanese engineers have built robots over the years that resemble pets, play football, and mimic human facial expressions, when the Fukushima nuclear plant starting emitting radioactivity after the recent tsunami, Japan had to look overseas for robots to help heal the damaged plant.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

WHILE the goal for many clothing manufacturers and brands is to gain an international presence, there is a key risk associated with selling the same designs in different global markets – the more far and wide that clothing designs go, the more shapes and sizes they must come in.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

IT is a no-brainer that factors such as age, diet, culture, and exercise all contribute to a person’s size; however, sizing research over the years shows that there is a link between how tall or wide a person is and the decade of their formative years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A major international report has predicted food commodity prices will be much higher this decade than in the last. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) and the Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have projected maize costs will be almost 20% higher this decade on average, and rice more than 15% higher.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE MIDDLE East’s confectionery market (including the Gulf, the Levant, Egypt (but not elsewhere in north Africa), Iraq Iran, Turkey and Israel) was valued at US dollar USD113 billion in 2009, while annual chocolate sales exceeded USD4.2 billion, according to USA-based TNS Media Intelligence.…