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THE UNITED States government has unveiled details of proposed flexibilities it wants to introduce into the planned Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement which will allow importers to buy scarce clothing, textiles and yarns from outside the bloc.

Speaking at a New York conference yesterday (Wed, Jan 9), Kim Glas, deputy assistant secretary for textiles and apparels of the US Department of Commerce stressed proposals that may appease concerns of US garment and clothing importers concerned about restrictive ‘yarn forward’ rules in the draft TPP.…

THE CREATION of a harmonised customs system within the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) by 2015 should be better exploited by its regional clothing and textile industry through better vertical integration, a conference was told this week.…

WHILE Australia’s government has pushed forward aggressively in terms of tobacco control, with the world’s first law prohibiting all brand imagery and promotional text on tobacco products’ packaging, despite criticism at home and abroad.

Paul Mazoudier, a former corporate lawyer in Sydney, chairman of several large Australian corporations and an avid smoker, was not impressed by his first box of plain-packaged cigarettes.…

BY MARK ROWE

For decades the car industry in the developed world has expanded remorselessly. But a recent flurry of academic papers has come to the conclusion that the West (and other rich countries such as Japan and Australia) may have hit a plateau known as ‘peak car’.…

UNTIL now, much of Russia’s exploitation of lucrative Siberian gas and oil deposits has targeted the western sectors of this vast region, rather than the central heartlands or the distant east. The reasons are clear enough, as the abundant fields of western Siberia have fed strong demand from Europe.…

SOUTH Africa’s paint and coatings industry is expected to increase in value from 560.0 million in 2009 to USD712.47 million in 2016, according to market analysts Frost & Sullivan. But the sector has faced tough times since the global financial crisis hit in 2008, and is only now recovering from the recession that hit South Africa as a result, and that recovery has been slow.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, IN NEW DELHI

IT may seem odd that the development of natural gas and oil fracking in the United States might create wealth for farmers in the arid Indian state of Rajasthan, but it is the case. Seeds of guar or cluster bean (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), a common vegetable in India, are in demand from America’s growing fracking industry.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

Significant questions about the re-elected US Administration’s readiness to stand up for American textile interests in the upcoming negotiations for expanding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal are looming in the wake of President Barack Obama’s re-election. Important decisions will be needed soon about the terms for including Vietnam in the TPP and its associated yarn forward rule of origin.…

BY MARCAS GAO, IN TIANJIN

The chief of one of China’s most ambitious beef processing companies has told globalmeatnews.com how his plans are being frustrated by a shortage of cattle, even as demand for beef surges in the country’s urban centres.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, IN MONTRÉAL

DELEGATES at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)’s 12th Air Navigation Conference have approved a comprehensive plan for sustainably increasing airport traffic management capacity, taking account of developing technologies.

Based on ICAO’s system of block upgrades, delegates backed a focus under the current technology-based Block 0 to reform wake turbulence categorisation, with approach procedures optimising GNSS-based performance-based navigation (PBN) approaches and making traffic flow improvements through arrival and departure runway sequencing management.…