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The ongoing conflict in Myanmar, as its military government loses control over territory to rebel groups, is severely affecting the country’s clothing and textile industry. This is especially in the central Burman region, where a majority of the sector’s factories are located.…

Jordan’s textile and leather industries have made impressive strides over the past six months, driven by a robust increase in exports and greater investment in raw materials, despite ongoing conflicts in neighbouring Lebanon and Israel.

Indeed, Jordan’s combined textile and leather industry achieved remarkable year-on-year growth of 11.8% in the second quarter of 2024, said Ihab Qadri, representative of the leather and textile industry at the Jordan Chamber of Industry (JCI).…

Member companies of the Foreign Buyers Association of the Philippines (Fobap) fear failing to reach a USD1 billion-mark in apparel export revenue in 2024, but they hope for improvement next year, as a free trade agreement (FTA) between the Philippines and South Korea is expected to enter into force.…

Fashion retailers worldwide have publicly committed themselves to achieving ambitious sustainability goals, ranging from reduced emissions to greater circularity of materials through more effective recycling. Some of these goals have been adopted from external sources, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) (https://sdgs.un.org/goals…

The Biden administration’s September 6 (2024) decision to renew the suspension of Ethiopia from membership of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which once granted the Horn of Africa duty-free access to the USA, is forcing Africa’s second most populous country to look east for alternative textile and clothing investment and export sales.…

The global cotton supply chain is expected to be impacted by extreme weather events, trade disputes, geopolitical tensions, increasing regulation and more complex shipments in 2025, but traceability and innovation might help to reinvent the sector, experts have said.
According to the US department of agriculture, “2024/25 global cotton consumption is forecast at 115.2 million bales (…) more than 9 million bales below the record level witnessed four years ago”, thanks to more production and consumption of man-made fibres (1).…

Promoting collaboration between the European Union’s (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) will be a key priority of the new EU budget, anti-fraud and public administration Commissioner once he takes office, probably on December 1.

Poland’s Piotr Serafin, a former cabinet head for past European Council president and now Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, performed effectively at his European Parliament confirmation hearing on November 7, and should be confirmed as Commissioner.…

India’s struggling biofuel industry may finally be picking up as the country’s oil refining major, Reliance Industries Ltd, announcing an Indian Rupees INR650 billion (USD7.72 billion) investment plan to set up 500 compressed biogas (CBG) plants over the next three years in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.…

The European auto sector is uneasy about the 35.3% countervailing duties that the European Union (EU) has imposed on China-built BEVs on top of the standard 10% import tariff. While they were imposed in response to what the EU executive, the European Commission, claims are unfair state subsidies throughout Chinese supply chains that undercut the bloc’s own European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has declined to comment.…