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THE NEWLY signed 11-member Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) could help Vietnam boost garment and textile exports to the lucrative Australian market significantly. But the Asian clothing makers may still face big challenges in taking market share in this mature market away from China, experts warn. …

THE AMERICAN tobacco industry has had to face up to retaliatory safeguard duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of USA-made tobacco and tobacco products, after US President Donald Trump imposed import duties on EU-made aluminium and steel imports.

The American duties came into force on June 1 and the EU reaction was swift.…

THE ALUMINUM Association of Canada is assessing the list of aluminium products that could be subject to retaliatory duties following the USA’s imposition of tariffs to identify lines that maybe re-exported multiple times during complex manufacturing processes. The industry group will request that these lines are reduced from the Canadian government safeguard duty list.…

THE ALUMINIUM industry associations of the United States, the European Union (EU), Canada and Japan have this afternoon called for the creation of a Global Multilateral and Governmental Forum on Aluminium Overcapacity to drive the development of an international plan to shrink world production.…

THE QUÉBEC government has said it will push the American government to exempt its aluminium industry from the duties that it announced last Thursday would be levied on Canadian exports of the metal. Québec smelters make the vast majority of aluminium exported from Canada – much of it destined for the USA.…

THE DEPUTY Premier of Québec this morning committed her government to helping the Canadian province’s aluminium sector preserve its current level of employment in the face of the American tariffs that have hit the industry since last Thursday.

Speaking at an international aluminium summit in Montreal, Canada, Dominique Anglade said: “If there’s a risk of a reduction in production and not being able to export as much, we will be here to support the companies to make sure they maintain the jobs in the sector.”…

A GLOBAL meeting of senior aluminium executives worldwide has heard calls for a multilateral solution for the problem of overcapacity. The goal would be integrating China and its state-owned enterprises into the world trading system in a way that is acceptable to major market economy regulators.…

KNITWEAR is a key part of the growth in clothing manufacturing that is becoming an important part of the economies of several Caribbean countries, providing thousands of jobs and producing apparel worn not only in the region but in the USA, Canada, Europe and elsewhere.…

CANADA’S minister of international trade today told world aluminium sector leaders how the deplored the imposition of duties by the USA of Canadian exports of the metal, branding it “deeply troubling and unacceptable.” Arguing that the action would “do nothing to address the problem of global over-capacity”, François-Philippe Champagne said the tariffs would harm American and Canadian producers whose integrated aluminium industries “don’t sell to each other, they make things together.”…

THE BANGLADESH government could shut down more than 750 apparel factories if the units fail to complete safety improvement work by December (2018), the country’s junior labour and employment minister Mujibul Haque made the announcement.

“The factories that will not complete the work by December will be closed down in January,” he said in a statement issued by Bangladesh’s ministry of labour and employment.…