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THE PAKISTAN textile sector is anticipating a bumper cotton harvest due to the favourable weather conditions in the main cotton-growing Punjab and Sindh provinces. Government officials and textile industry representatives said timely rains would boost output. A report from the government’s cotton crop assessment committee has said Pakistan was likely to produce 13.255 million bales (of 170 kilograms each) in the fiscal year of 2014, ensuring cotton production would rise by 1.68 million bales, or 14.52%, compared to the 11.57 million bales produced in the fiscal year 2013.…

political and judicial authorities have taken action to slow the smuggling of cattle from Pakistan to Afghanistan, and Iran because of growing public discontent about the rising prices of meat in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. They border these two neighbouring countries.…

THE INDIAN apparel industry has made progress with backward integration over last five years but exporters rely too heavily on refunds of custom duties when re-exporting apparel based on fabrics and fibres bought outside the country, a Li & Fung India executive told a New Delhi conference on Friday (July 19).…

THE INDIAN cotton textile industry has increased its global competitiveness over the last decade, but still its exports have not shown the corresponding results, said a report compiled by Zurich-based consultancy agency Gherzi. Entitled ‘Cost Benchmarking Study – India vis-à–vis Bangladesh, Indonesia, Egypt, China, Pakistan and Turkey’, it was commissioned by the Indian Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council and released in New Delhi last week (July 25).…

PAKISTAN’S textile industry – often referred to as the backbone of Pakistan’s economy – is suffering from a severe energy crisis caused by frequent power cuts and gas shortages.

The crisis is most severe in Pakistan’s most populous province Punjab. Shahzad Ali Khan, chairman of the Punjab chapter of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA), said the textile industry had never faced a crisis of such proportions.…

The European Parliament’s environment committee has backed the new law provisionally agreed between European Parliament negotiators and European Union (EU) member states on improving the environmental and working standards for scrapping EU-owned ships. Under a planned EU regulation, such ships would have to be dismantled in ship recycling facilities listed by the EU as meeting specific requirements, and are certified and regularly inspected.…

newly elected government, led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, is considering abolishing and merging a number of ministries, including the Ministry of Textile Industry.  This was one of the first policy reforms presented to officials for assessment by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) after winning the May 11 general.…

PAKISTAN has strengthened its anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) laws and institutions but still faces huge challenges to fight dirty money flows stemming from its large black economy, corruption, tax evasion, smuggling, political conflicts of interest and its role as a conduit for drug trafficking and terrorists.…

INVESTORS have shown faith in the long term prospects of the Bangladesh clothing and textile sector, with four garment factories costing nearly USD50 million to build starting operations in Bangladesh’s Comilla Export Processing Zone this year (EPZ), its general manager MD Abdus Sobhan told just-style.…

EASTERN European textile and clothing companies used to have a cost advantage in serving wealthy western European markets, but that has long been eclipsed by Asian competition – added value technical textiles may offer them a sustainable future.

In Poland’s hard-pressed textile industry, its fast-growing technical branch may constitute the future of the national industry, experts in the country’s industry say.…