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PAKISTAN’S new Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has demonstrated a fresh willingness to help the country’s textile sector, amidst a continuing sharp decline in exports. Unlike the man he replaced, Nawaz Sharif, who lost his job over a corruption scandal in July, Abbasi has appointed a relevant minister for the textile sector (a portfolio Sharif kept for himself).…

TEXTILE mill owners in Pakistan have expressed doubts over their government’s apparent enthusiasm to develop joint ventures (JVs) with their Chinese counterparts to boost dwindling export levels.

Pakistan’s textile minister, Pervaiz Malik, said at the 18th Textile Asia International Exhibition in Lahore recently that his government wants JVs with the Chinese textile sector and for his country to become a textile business hub for the Middle East, central and south Asia.…

RESTRICTIVE quotas limiting European Union (EU) sugar production to 13.5 million tonnes have finally been scrapped, freeing producers to hit market demand. The abolition of the quotas from October 1 sees European Commission officials predicting that EU sugar production will increase 20% and reach 20.1 million tonnes for the next harvest.…

A KEY European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) committee has ruled that the common whitening agent titanium dioxide should be recognised as carcinogenic within the European Union (EU) when inhaled. A formal recommendation that this health risk should be noted in an annex to the EU’s classification, labelling and packaging regulation (CLP) will come later this year.…

A MAJOR international anti-counterfeiting action ‘Operation Renegade’ did not just seize more than 70,000 counterfeit auto spare parts, oil and air filters, grills, and fuel pumps, and nearly 600 cylinders of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) refrigerants, it yielded valuable anti-smuggling and counterfeiting information.…

THE PANAMA Papers leak has claimed its latest high profile political scalp – Nawaz Sharif, 67, who has resigned as Prime Minister of Pakistan, following the unanimous decision, on July 28, by the country’s Supreme Court to disqualify him from office.…

AS Ethiopia rapidly emerges as a key clothing and textile hub of Africa, the country has been making impressive strides as a knitwear manufacturing and sourcing centre, attracting the attention of global clothing majors.

“International buyers are beginning to buy knitted clothes from Ethiopia including Zara, Tesco, H&M [Hennes & Mauritz] and Decathlon,” said Fassil Tadesse, president of the Ethiopian Textile and Garment Manufacturing Association (ETGAMA).…

In a move that will disappoint many textile manufacturers and exporters, the government of Pakistan has decided to abandon its plans to build a Pakistan Textile City near Karachi.
A senior government official at Pakistan’s ministry of textile industry confirmed to just-style that the federal cabinet’s economic coordination committee had approved winding up a Pakistan Textile City Ltd (PTCL), a special purpose vehicle for the project, after clearing the company’s liabilities and transferring its land to the Port Qasim Authority (PQA).…

TURKISH and Pakistani textile executives are divided in their opinion about the likely benefits of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) under discussion between Pakistan and Turkey, with Pakistan opinion in favour, but less enthusiasm in Turkey.

Seven rounds of talks between the two sides have taken place and further talks maybe staged in August.…

THE LEAGUE of Arab States’ 22 countries have imported more Brazilian textiles and clothing between January and July of 2017 than during the whole of 2016, according to the latest industry figures from the Brazilian-Arabic Chamber of Commerce (CCAB – Câmara de Comércio Árabe-Brasileira).…