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THE PROSPECTS of a successful conclusion to the ongoing talks to renew the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have taken a heavy blow from today’s decision by President Donald Trump to impose duties on steel and aluminium products from Canada and Mexico at 25% and 10%, respectively.…

WITH the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) about to hold a new plenary on June 27-29, jointly with the FATF-style regional body from the Middle East and North Africa (MENAFATF), the global AML body is assessing its new operational plan for terrorist financing.…

AS in the Caribbean, small island jurisdictions in the south Pacific vary regarding their anti-money laundering (AML) exposure through the extent to which they host offshore financial sectors. As a result, when comparing the counties of Vanuatu, Fiji and the Solomon Islands, it is clear which of the three global AML regulators have had to worry about – Vanuatu.…

TECHNICAL textile markets can be driven and shaped by a range of forces – from natural disasters, to technological change, economic developments and political movements. In the case of the USA, at present, the technical textile market and industry is being moved by all these influences at the same time.…

Unlike the limited range of minerals used in fossil fuel production, many minerals, metallic and nonmetallic, are used in renewable energy technologies. However, production is often low and concentrated in a limited number of countries – creating potential strategic supply problems.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) food and drink exporters could be major beneficiaries of a revised EU-Mexico trade agreement which will remove almost all bilateral tariffs left by a year 2000 deal. Under a new agreement struck in principle, Mexican import duties on EU exports of cheeses, such as gorgonzola and roquefort, and pasta (of up to 20%), will be removed, along with duties on chocolate and confectionery, (that can exceed 20%).…

THE FEDERAL Aviation Administration (FAA), of the USA, has forecast that American air traffic will increase from 840.8 million passenger movements in 2017 to 1.28 billion in 2038. It projected in its FAA Aerospace Forecast Fiscal Years (FY) 2018-2038 that domestic route air passenger numbers will increase 4.7% this year (2018), then grow 1.7% on average annually until 2038.…

A GROWING wave of sophisticated digital technologies and automation is helping the US apparel sector to produce custom-made, locally-manufactured, on-demand clothing, at a scale that some critics thought was never possible.

Atlanta US-based machine vision and Artificial Intelligence start-up SoftWear Automation Inc, which launched autonomous sewing worklines in 2012 after seven years of research – says it has successfully overcome this challenge.…

When Apple Inc released its iPhone X in November 2017, it took about a week until news broke that Vietnamese security firm Bkav cracked the phone’s revolutionary facial recognition security lock, Face ID, with a composite mask of 3D-printed plastic, silicone, makeup and simple paper cut-outs.…

A TEAM of Turkish experts has discovered how to use welding techniques to construct e-textiles for use in firefighters’ protective gear.

Since 2015, under a European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research programme-financed project led by the Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, universities, clothing manufacturers, and experts in smart textile technologies and electronics have been investigating the use of welding techniques to construct interactive textiles.…