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Pakistan’s steel billet-based shape production sector is in poor shape and reeling from competition posed by the country’s strong ship-breaking sector, a senior executive has told Steel First. Noting the repeated suspension of production of melting units using steel billets in the past year, Abbas Akberali, CEO of Amreli Steels Limited, which accounts for 10% to 12% of Pakistan’s steel bar production said: “The primary threat to the nation’s steel melting industry are the tax anomalies between the ship breaking and steel melting sector, which allows the ship breaking sector to generate sub-standard steel products at much cheaper cost than the steel melters’ costs and prevents further investment in the steel melting industry.”…

Despite being a traditional livestock country, Afghanistan is no longer self-sufficient due to more than three decades of conflict and is now dependent on meat imports. Afghanistan imports of chicken and cattle have exploded between 2002 and 2011, according to the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation.…

Shifting sourcing is becoming increasingly complex for apparel and textile manufacturers as they set greater production standards and create ever more complex supply chains. To switch suppliers efficiently and ensure that they can meet these requirements, companies must inform themselves of the political and cultural issues in the supplier’s region, and clearly communicate their goals to a new manufacturer.…

Serious negotiations in a much-vaunted and debated trade deal between India and Pakistan, which could significantly boost the textile trade between the two neighbours, have been shelved due to the impending Indian elections, WTiN.com has been told.

“The Pakistanis had second thoughts in going ahead while knowing that there will be a change in government [in India] and they could have to start from the scratch,” said Dr Nisha Taneja, a professor at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations in New Delhi, “My expectation is that it would be done four months after [the new government takes over in] May.”…

ALTHOUGH two-thirds of vaccine research and development (R&D) globally is carried out by European firms, manufacturers in China, India and Brazil are becoming increasingly muscular and “moving from dependency to self-sufficiency” experts at a two-day conference in Brussels on vaccine research heard last week.…

AIRPORTS in Pakistan are adding security measures as they face the constant threat of terrorist attacks. The terminal facing the largest threat is Bacha Khan International Airport, in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which has been a centre of a series of terrorist and insurgent attacks.…

Nearly 18 months since Australian exporters voluntarily suspended sheep exports to Bahrain, the CEO of the Australian Live Exporters’ Council Alison Penfold has told globalmeatnews.com that Australian exporters are keen to resume trading: “Bahrain is a market we value very highly.…

Sri Lanka could be relaxing its restrictions on foreign investment in the steel industry as construction projects aimed at building 35,000 hotel rooms across the country by 2016 get underway.  Its government announced last June that it would curtail steel-related foreign investments to encourage local manufacturers to create locally-owned steel-making capacity, but the hotel-fuelled construction boom is generating demand that local manufacturers may struggle to meet.…

PAKISTAN’S textile industry is going to secure over USD1 billion worth of orders from the recently concluded Heimtextil exhibition in Germany, the Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) has predicted.

A spokesman told WTiN.com that the figure represents a “40 per cent jump in the number of orders” compared with the last year, and said the boom in orders is “fully attributed” to the country’s eligibility to the European Union’s (EU) GSP+ trade scheme.…

Clothing and textile industry disasters in the past year-and-a-half including fires and building collapses at factories in countries including Bangladesh and Pakistan have pushed companies to expand their definition of ‘safe’ suppliers to include more ethical and social standards. Yet, despite, brands’ desire to monitor more operations, the fragmented organisation of standards around the world remains a key challenge.…