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HONG Kong textile industry observers are confident that an announcement by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that imported goods produced in Hong Kong must from September 25 be marked as ‘made-in-China’ will not significantly harm clothing traders and manufacturers operating from the territory.…

Indian apparel exporters continue to face severe labour shortages, limiting the orders they can accept and undermining the quality of their work, even as the country’s five months-long Covid-19 related lockdown has largely been lifted. This scarcity of trained and experienced labour is coming at a bad time for Indian manufacturers who have an opportunity to snatch business from Chinese competitors as western buyers seek to diversify supply chains during the pandemic.…

One year ago, there were few options in the Brazilian market of non-meat alternative products. But brands have started luring beef-crazy Brazilians into buying several plant-based meat substitutes, chiefly hamburgers. And some of the country’s biggest meat packers are now exploring this relatively small, but promising category.…

The China National Coatings Industry Association (NCIA) on July 31 informed members that it has been told by the ministry of ecology and environment to investigate the production, treatment and disposal of hazardous waste in the coating industry and compile a management guide based on the investigation’s findings.…

PAKISTAN’S paint and coatings sector is understandably suffering from Covid-19, which has hit the country hard with 276,288 cases and 5,892 deaths as of July 28. But the industry has been expanding and its executives hope for a sustained recovery once the pandemic has abated, ending the current series of rolling smart lockdowns targeting infection hotspots.…

THE UNITED Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has proposed creating a permanent ‘observatory’ monitoring cocoa markets, assessing value and costs, to help chocolate sales revenues be more equitably distributed throughout supply chains.

In a report called a ‘Comparative study on the distribution of value in European chocolate chains’, the FAO said such “objectified and cross-checked data” would aid “a multi-stakeholder discussion” at national and global levels on revenue sharing.…

The executive director of International Sugar Organisation (ISO) wants his body “to work more with the confectionery sector”, as it strives to debunk junk science that derides the nutritional value of sugar. José Orive told Confectionery Production that ISO wanted to succeed in presenting “scientific evidence-based information” about sugar’s health impact so the reputation of confectionery products is not “blackened with funky fake data”. …

BANGLADESH’S apparel exporters are contemplating diversifying their past tight focus on western markets to include buyers serving southeast Asia as they emerge from the Covid-19 crisis. The move has been prompted by frosty relations with international retailers in Europe and the USA who scrapped or suspended shipments worth USD3 billion following the outbreak of the global coronavirus pandemic.  …

EUROPEAN, Japanese and South Korean automotive manufacturers are about to follow new international guidance ensuring increasingly-networked vehicles are protected from hacking by cyber-criminals.

This follows the release of two new UN regulations, adopted June 24 by the UN Economic Commission for Europe’s (UNECE) World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations.…

INTRODUCTION

Quantum computers were once the stuff of science fiction, the technology that was always 10 years away from fruition. But now they are real and operating. Google last October announced it had developed a device of 53-qubits (quantum computers’ ability to express a signal), nicknamed Sycamore, which it claimed in a Nature article [1] took 200 seconds to sample one instance of a quantum circuit a million times, which the IT major claimed would take 10,000 years for a state-of-the-art digital supercomputer to achieve.…