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AN INITIATIVE led by Europe-south east Asia trade promotion group EVAlliance is trying to transform Cambodia’s low-value added, largely subcontracting” garment making business and imports-dependent textile industry into making high-end goods with locally made textile input.”

The France-based textile and clothing industry group (its name means Europe Vietnam Alliance, but it covers other counties in the region) has released its goal in a new action plan and a two -year Memorandum of Understanding (2015-2016) in November with the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC).…

The Middle East and North African nonwovens sector is in flux. At the same time as extra capacity has come online, regional demand has been affected by political instability, forcing manufacturers to focus on exports and diversify their offerings.

“It is showing clearly now that the Arab Spring and political consequences have definitely delayed investment decisions by potential customers.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) seems to have sparked a regulatory trend with its REACH chemical control system, with more and more countries in Asia adopting REACH-inspired chemical management laws. Thus textile finishing units, companies and suppliers will have to pay increasingly close attention to chemical regulations in Asia-Pacific countries such as China and South Korea.…

Soap and personal care manufacturers worldwide have responded to the Ebola epidemic with donations of their products to directly affected regions.     Their goal especially has been to promote cleanliness as a means of limiting the spread of the disease. For instance, the USA’s Avadim Technologies has donated its advanced Theraworx sanitation products to Liberia, in partnership with Eblen Charities, for instance.…

The mainland Chinese bathroom product market has in 2013 grown in value and volume at healthy year-on-year rates of 12.8% and 8.6% to USD2.7 billion and 3.06 billion units respectively. Canadean, the market research company producing these figures, attributes growing per capita consumption to rising incomes as well as the increased availability of products.…

IRELAND has been especially hard hit by the latest expansion of Russia’s ban on European Union (EU) meat exports, figures released today by the European Commission reveal.
Moscow has expanded its existing import restrictions to cover beef offal and beef fats.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced a further four European Union (EU)-funded marketing programmes promoting sales of EU-produced meat, within member states and abroad. These are in addition to the Euro EUR7.7 million programme promoting lamb sales run by British beef and lamb levy body Eblex, Ireland’s Bord Bía, France’s Interbev, announced earlier this week.…

THE COMPREHENSIVE Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union (EU) will make it easier for both jurisdictions to recognise each other’s nursing certifications. Political leaders celebrated the end of negotiations in September in Ottawa, Canada (Sept 26).…

Multilateral talks over Iran’s nuclear power programme have partly and temporarily eased certain sanctions against the country. Yet while businesses worldwide are keen to get into the lucrative Iranian market to offer all kinds of good and services, the overarching sanctions regime put in place by the United States, the European Union  (EU) and the United Nations still remains, as do the risks of doing business with Iran, considered one of the world’s riskiest jurisdictions.…

AS China moves gradually onwards with the long-promised liberalisation of its currency exchange regime, increased use of offshore companies and bank accounts by Chinese officials is refocusing Chinese attention on the illicit outflow of funds from the country. These have been facilitated and even prompted by China’s ongoing efforts to encourage investment overseas while also liberalising its currency regime.…