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The executive director of the Chamber of the Textile and Apparel Industry, of El Salvador (CAMTEX – Cámara de la Industria Textil) has told Just Style how her manufacturing hub is seizing market opportunities growing as Covid-19 ebbs.

Patricia Figueroa, who has been in her job since 2015, also highlighted the challenges the Salvadoran clothing and textile industry will tackle in 2021-22, with CAMTEX’s help.…

THE CANADIAN auto parts sector is likely to suffer should the Trump administration go ahead with plans to impose escalating duties on Mexican exports to the USA to force Mexico to further restrict immigration into America.

With President Donald Trump yesterday (June 5) claiming talks with the Mexican government have been insufficiently productive, the US is poised to impose 5% duties on all imports from Mexico on June 10.…

The lorry driver shortage in the UK has grabbed headlines, with concerns raised that Britain’s Brexit from the European Union has worsened the problem. And while that is almost certainly true, the shortage of drivers willing and able to take on commercial haulage jobs is far from being a Britain-only challenge.…

The relationship between the USA textile industry and its counterparts in Latin America has never been straightforward, given the US exports fabrics and fibre to its neighbours as well as importing apparel, but the Covid-19 pandemic has increased complexity in this relationship.…

One of the world-changing impacts of the Second World War was an understanding that unfettered competition between nation states was not just undesirable, but – if taken to its logical conclusion – would lead to war. Amidst the ruins of Europe, as an exhausted continent stumbled out of conflict, new thinking emerged, that economic links between neighboring countries be deliberately forged to create interdependence that would encourage cooperation to achieve wealth.…

After a Covid-disrupted 2020, the clothing manufacturing industry in El Salvador is now recovering fast, with sales pushed increasing demand in its key United States export market. Sales to the USA gathered USD1.5 billion in the first semester of 2021, USD664 million more than the same period in the previous year (+74.8%), according to data from El Salvador’s central bank (Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador).…

After a Covid-disrupted 2020, the clothing manufacturing industry in El Salvador is now recovering fast, with sales pushed increasing demand in its key United States export market. Sales to the USA gathered USD1.5 billion in the first semester of 2021, USD664 million more than the same period in the previous year (+74.8%), according to data from El Salvador’s central bank (Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador).…

Analysed USA trade data from the professor who coined the phrase ‘trade-based money laundering’ have unveiled significant abnormal pricing in exports and imports to and from the USA, which could have been abused for ML. Prof John Zdanowicz, a business professor at the USA’s Florida International University, and long-standing TBML expert, shared analysed 2020 US trade data with MLB, and they include some eye-widening anomalous valuations.…

THE MEXICAN automotive industry is struggling to cope with the resurgence of demand for new vehicles, as it deals with the global shortage of microchips along with the increase in steel costs – hitting manufacturers’ bottom line – a key problem for Mexico USA-oriented export model.…

After completing the technical testing required, central America’s largest apparel factory is about to open in Honduras, producing sportswear for major brands such as Nike or Under Armour, an executive informed just-style.
La Arena, the Tegra Global-owned industrial park in San Pedro Sula, in the country’s north, will receive around 100 employees during the last week of August – its inauguration was delayed from January because of the Covid-19 pandemic.…