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INDIAN GOVERNMENT SENDS OUT CONFLICTING SIGNALS ON TRADE – DOES KNITWEAR SECTOR NEED TO PREPARE FOR MORE COMPETITION?
THE INDIAN government has been sending out conflicting signals about its trading policy for its important knitwear sector. While it last month (July 18) announced it was increasing import duties for some key knitted apparel and knitwear inputs, talks are moving ahead to forge a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) with 16 Asian counties.…
AS US-CHINA TRADE SPAT HEATS UP, THE PHILIPPINES ANTICIPATES CHINESE GARMENT INVESTMENT WAVE
Signs of an accelerating relocation of garment investment from China to the Philippines are emerging, amidst the US imposing an additional 10% duty on textile and some clothing products from China. The Chinese government retaliation of an additional 25% duty on US cotton imports making raw material sourcing for China-based manufacturers more expensive has also raised the cost of doing business in China.…
CORSIA ON COURSE FOR PILOT PHASE WITH US ONBOARD, BUT JITTERS CAUSED BY CHINA WITHDRAWAL
WHEN President Donald Trump said in June 2017 that he was pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accord, it looked like the kiss of death for the global Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) agreed the previous October at an International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) meeting, in Montreal.…
HANESBRANDS INVESTS IN EL SALVADOR IN 2018 AS COUNTRY JOINS REGIONAL CUSTOMS UNION
US textile manufacturer HanesBrands says it has invested USD5.2 million in new technology and staff in El Salvador in the last six months and plans to inject USD5.2 million more in the central American country by the New Year. The international manufacturer has so far this year set up a new garment dying line at its San Juan Opico, La Libertad department plant, expanded its socks production in the same complex, and increased its workforce to meet global demand.…
COMPETITION RAMPS UP FOR RTE BREAKFAST CEREALS IN CHINA
Seeing strong growth in China’s adult-targeted, ready-to-eat (RTE) breakfast cereals sector, global cereals manufacturers are speeding up new product launches in China to stay competitive. Nestlé, for example, introduced Fitness Granola into China last May (2017), initially via its online stores.…
YOUNG CHINESE EMBRACE WESTERN-STYLE BREAKFAST CEREALS
THE CHINESE market for breakfast foods, long dominated by its varied traditional meals, is starting to open to international options – and branded food manufacturers are taking note.
China has long seen a rich variety of foods being consumed at breakfast – congee and dumplings are favored by people in the south, while people in the north enjoy buns and noodles.…
CHINA INVESTMENT IS MAJOR GLOBAL SHOT IN THE ARM FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY SECTOR
China seems to have given the world nuclear industry back its mojo this summer with two big moves: the signing in June of an order for four Gen 3+ VVER-1200 reactors from Russia’s Rosatom. This certainly got the bubbly flowing at the World Nuclear Exhibition, in Paris, in late June, following two years of sluggish investment in this globalised industry.…
SOUTH KOREA HEATWAVE PUSHES DEMAND FOR NEW INNOVATIVE SUN-STICKS SKIN PROTECTION
With a historic heat wave plaguing the Korean peninsula since the middle of July, killing at least 29 people and hospitalizing 2,300 others with heat-related illnesses, it is little surprising that suncare product sales have been booming in South Korea.
And while traditional sun protection products such as parasols and straw hats have sold well – July sales up 83% and 37% year-on-year respectively, according to local e-commerce website Auction, (www.auction.co.kr),…
ASIA PACIFIC PAINT AND COATINGS REGULATORY ROUND UP – INDIA PAINT SECTOR EXEMPTED FROM KEY BIOCIDE CONTROLS
INDIA’S paint industry has been exempted from a mandatory biocide registration requirement under the national Insecticides Act (1968) if the biocides are used as a dry film preservative. However, new guidelines issued by Central Insecticide Board and Registration Committee (CIBRC) in June have told the Indian paint industry that they must use registered biocide products at recommended dosages, or protective labelling rules will kick in.…
JAPAN PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT GROWS THROUGH EXPORT BOOM
Japan’s personal care sector experienced continued growth in 2017, with shipments surpassing Japanese Yen JPY1.6 trillion (USD14.34 billion) during the year to record a new record high. Virtually every sector recording an increase in sales on the previous year. Figures for the January-April period of 2018 suggest that this positivity is being carried over into this year, boding well for Japanese personal care product companies.…