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Industrial analysts in China believe that the country’s growing textile machinery industry will be able to cope with punitive duties that have been propose by the USA over its complaints about alleged intellectual property thefts.

The US Trade Representative (USTR) has listed 1,300 tariff lines of China-made exports that could be hit with 25% duties, including numerous textile machinery-related items, such as knitting, weaving and spinning machines and finishing equipment, plus parts.…

THE ORGANISERS of Italy’s premier beauty trade fair, Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna, are claiming a record number of visitors and international buyers attending this year’s 51st edition of the event from March 15-19. Exceeding the 250,000 visitors from last year’s Cosmoprof, attending foreign buyers, distributors and retail representatives grew 11% in 2018, year-on-year.…

THE SOUTH Korean cosmetics market, currently evaluated by Frost & Sullivan at USD12.4 billion and growing at 7% year-on-year, is leaving behind the negative effects of a de facto boycott by Chinese tourists. The travel freeze, sparked by Seoul’s decision to install a US-made anti-missile system to protect itself from North Korea, has been in place since early 2017.…

The Somali National University (SNU) is setting up its first new campus outside the capital Mogadishu, and – moreover – in a semi-autonomous region of a country which is steadily moving towards stable federalism.

Construction is now under way in Abudwaq town, in Galmudug region, central Somalia, following Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmaajo’s laying of a ground breaking stone on January 21 (2018) alongside Galmudug president Ahmed Dualle Gelle Haaf.…

For the first time since Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain in 1980, the African country’s tobacco selling season opened on March 21 this year with long time ruler Robert Mugabe no longer in power.

Former President Mugabe resigned last November (2017), faced with impeachment proceedings from Zimbabwe’s lawmakers, with the country’s generals and his own ZANU-PF party having turned against him.…

The South Pacific’s Cook Islands (population: 11,700) and Niue (population: 1,600), both largely autonomous jurisdictions in free association with New Zealand, have in the past been accused by international AML experts as being tax havens that facilitate money laundering. But reforms indicate that AML/CFT controls are tightening.…

THE NONWOVEN adult incontinence market in Europe is offering hygiene product manufacturers and brands a chance to profit in a wider sanitary segment that has been and remains highly competitive.

Western Europe has a high per capita consumption in sanitary protection and a fiercely competitive retailing environment, according to Miles Agbanrin, an analyst for market researcher Euromonitor International.…

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.…

The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) conference in Washington DC, on April 25, has heard how the clothing sector needs to boost innovation to sharpen its competitive edge in commercially uncertain times.

Whether creating prototypes from designs within minutes through 3D printing, fabrics being dyed as completed pieces and introducing wearable technology throughout wardrobes, speakers stressed how new concepts could all become mainstream in the clothing industry’s future.…

IMPROVING China’s woeful civil aviation punctuality is clearly a priority for China’s air traffic controllers, and they are seeking new ways to improve a dismal record that has unleashed a wave of public disquiet. Speaking at his organisation’s annual traffic control management conference in Beijing this January, Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) head Feng Zhenglin promised to improve punctuality by better information sharing and efficiency at airports.…