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EGYPT’S VISION 2025 PLAN IS PROMOTING CLOTHING AND TEXTILE MANUFACTURING GROWTH – BUT NOT HITTING ITS AMBITIOUS TARGETS
Egypt is moving ahead with its Vision 2025 strategy to quadruple garment and textile exports, employ a further 1 million people, and attract USD17.5 billion in investment, but the double-digit growth needed to achieve the goals have yet to be reached.…
CHINA’S ECO-TAX HAS BOOSTED COSTS, BUT MOST TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS HAVE STAYED IN BUSINESS, SAY EXPERTS
THE INTRODUCTION of a new environmental protection tax in China last (WHAT MONTH?) (2018) has pushed up the price of textiles manufactured in this country, increasing costs for Chinese clothing manufacturers, experts have told just-style. However, concerns that the new technological investments needed to reduce manufacturers’ liability under the law would cause wholesale closures of units have not come to pass.…
US FASHION INDUSTRY BOSS HOPES FOR TAMER AMERICAN TRADE POLICY AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION APPROACHES RE-ELECTION YEAR
The president and CEO of the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) has said that he did not just expect by the Trump administration’s aggressive stance on tariffs, but that its protectionism may now start to ease as the 2020 election looms.…
ICAO LINKS UP WITH ICANN TO DEVELOP PROTECTED DIGITAL COMMS SYSTEM BOOSTING ENTIRE CIVIL AVIATION SECTOR
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is working with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to explore developing a new trust framework, aimed at revolutionising how digital communications are secured within the aviation sector.
These two bodies have signed a memorandum of understanding outlining how ICAO and ICANN want to forge a system that certifies digital identities within civil aviation.…
INDIAN TECHNICAL TEXTILE SECTOR DEVELOPS DOMESTIC STANDARDS AS MILITARY OPENS UP TO PRIVATE SUPPLIERS
INDIA’S large military forces are to start sourcing a significant volumes of technical textile products from private companies from next year (2020), opening up a new market for local and international manufacturers, delegates at a recent conference were told in New Delhi.…
EU/WTO REGULATORY ROUND UP – NEW RULES AGREED ON EFSA TRANSPARENCY
AGREEMENT has been reached between European Union (EU) institutions on reforms to the EU general food law regulation ensuring that studies behind European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) recommendations are made public. This would include data supporting a request for EFSA scientific advice.…
ASIAN REGULATORY ROUND UP – HONG KONG 2019 BUDGET INCLUDES SIGNIFICANT PROFITS AND SALARY TAX BREAKS
THE HONG Kong government’s 2019 budget is to include a planned 75% reduction of profits tax, salaries tax and tax under personal assessment for the 2018-19 tax year, up to Hong Kong dollars HKD20,000 (USD2,547) per case. These breaks will cost HKD18.9 billion (USD2.4 billion), benefiting about 2.05 million taxpayers.…
TURKISH TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS HEAD EAST TO REDUCE COSTS
TURKISH textile and clothing manufacturers are eyeing slow but steady export growth in 2019, overcoming the challenges of regional instability, weak European export markets and a cheap Turkish lira that makes imported inputs more expensive.
The Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM – Turkiye Ihracatcilar Meclisi) wants to bolster textile and garment exports by 10% to USD29 billion, according to Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, the country’s national news agency.…
FAST FASHION MAIN ACCELERATOR FOR TEXTILE MACHINERY DEMAND IN VIETNAM, SAYS LEADING DISTRIBUTOR
THE GROWTH in fast fashion contracts struck between brands and Vietnam’s burgeoning outsourcing will boost demand for machinery and equipment in the Vietnamese textile sector as much as the new trade deals that have been struck by Hanoi, according to industry insiders.…
BIG DATA SYSTEMS FOR OIL AND GAS SEISMIC PROBES GROW IN SOPHISTICATION, WITH ACQUISITIONS DEVELOPING INDUSTRY
BIG data and its manipulation are not just a boon for the IT sector, the growing sophistication of seismic data collection can give oil and gas companies a real competitive edge.
2019 will be the first full year of operation for Magseis Fairfield (Norway), created through combining two complementary players in marine seismic survey, with big ambitions in ocean-bottom systems for acquiring seismic data.…