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BY ALAN OSBORN

COATINGS companies worldwide are developing lower temperature curing systems for powder coatings, enabling them to be applied to wood and/or plastics. Also, new acrylic resins to avoid powder coating contamination problems are being developed, Polymers Paint Colour Journal has been told.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MEXICO has delayed a move to challenge at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) what it claims are illegal Chinese subsidies for textile and clothing producers. Mexico announced on November 22 that two days of talks between Mexican and Chinese officials in Geneva had failed to resolve differences between the two countries, opening the way for Mexico to request a WTO dispute panel to rule on its claims.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

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Fast Retailing

Japanese retail giant Fast Retailing underwent major expansion this year, opening the world’s largest Uniqlo store in Tokyo’s upscale Ginza shopping district, boasting 12 floors and a total retail space of 4,959 square metres. In May, Fast Retailing announced plans to set up a subsidiary company in China to oversee its ‘aggressive’ expansion plans in the country, just a month after it said it planned to open 62 stores in China during its current financial year – taking its store count there to 142, by the end of August.…

Latin America’s robust economy and fascination with beauty has made it a very lucrative region for cosmetics and perfume companies.  However corruption, weak border control and smuggling networks are helping to make the piracy of cosmetics and perfumes into a pervasive problem, causing major loss of revenue to both governments and companies alike.…

BY ROBERT STOKES, IN MALAGA

RANDOM House is bullish about selling more English and Spanish language titles in Spain and Latin America as a result of its planned merger with Penguin Books and outright purchase of Spain’s Random House Mondadori (RHM).…

BY ALAN OSBORN

Significant questions about the re-elected US Administration’s readiness to stand up for American textile interests in the upcoming negotiations for expanding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal are looming in the wake of President Barack Obama’s re-election. Important decisions will be needed soon about the terms for including Vietnam in the TPP and its associated yarn forward rule of origin.…

BY ROBERT STOKES, IN MALAGA

RANDOM House is bullish about selling more English and Spanish language titles in Spain and Latin America as a result of its planned merger with Penguin Books and outright purchase of Spain’s Random House Mondadori (RHM).…

BY WANG FANGQING IN SHANGHAI

China’s clothing and textile industry – already undermined by rising costs and competitors snapping at its heels – is especially vulnerable to fallout from a World Trade Organisation dispute (WTO) brought last week by Mexico.

It claims that Chinese government subsidies and tax-breaks for its textile and clothing sector break WTO agreements – and if a disputes settlement panel, Beijing will be under pressure to end these.…

BY DANIEL PRUZIN, IN GENEVA

MEXICO’S World Trade Organisation (WTO) challenge to Chinese subsidies for textile and clothing producers could be the most serious challenge yet to Beijing’s activist industrial policies, according to trade diplomats and legal experts in Geneva. The breadth of the Chinese measures being challenged makes it potentially the "mother of all dispute cases," commented one trade official to just-style.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN AND CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

USA textile industry experts are urging the American government to step up and support the recent complaint filed by Mexico at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Chinese industrial policy regarding the textile and clothing sector.…