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MONEY launderers are always looking for a new opportunity to clean dirty money, and have been exploiting sales of French vineyards for the purpose. Criminal networks have to this end leveraged a combination of a flagging domestic property market, increasing foreign interest in French property and wine, and a general ignorance among the real estate professional community about money laundering risks.…

Pakistani meat exporters are optimistic that the Iranian government will lift an import ban imposed in early 2014 on Pakistan-produced meat following a meeting on Wednesday (April 22) between the country’s trade ministers.
Khurram Dastagir Khan, Pakistan’s commerce minister and Mohammed Reza Nematzadeh, Iran’s minister for industry, mines and trade met in Tehran at a scheduled session of the Pakistan Iran joint trade committee.…

Renewed calls for mandatory animal welfare food labelling have been made following a debate on proposed European Union (EU) organic labelling rules at the EU Council of Ministers, in Brussels. Labelling Matters, the umbrella campaign backed by a range of leading animal welfare groups across Europe, says mandatory animal welfare (AW) labelling would be beneficial both to consumers and meat producers.…

Denmark’s ministry for food, agriculture and fisheries (MFAF/ministeriet for fødevarer, landbrug og fiskeri) is investigating whether meat (and dairy) products sourced from the offspring of cloned farm animals have found its way onto supermarket shelves in the country. With the products in contention imported mainly from North America, the investigation could lead to stricter product labelling laws in Denmark.…

AUSTRALIA’s push to re-define its agricultural produce under a unified name -‘True Aussie’ that signifies products are clean, green and safe – is helping the countries meat exporters, claim industry leaders.
In Japan alone 50% of Australian beef packs sold at retail now carry this logo, Meat and Livestock Australia International Business Manager in Japan, Andrew Cox told GlobalMeatNews.…

THE CHINESE knitting sector facing transformation, being challenged by lacklustre economic performance in its key export markets, fast-rising domestic labour costs, as well as a determined government crusade for energy savings and emission reduction. The industry is, in general, cautiously optimistic about tackling these challenges and experts agree that if knitwear producers stick to their strategy of adding value through more sophisticated automation, they will manage to retain manufacturing supremacy over their south Asian and southeast Asian peers.…

A China-based cotton expert has predicted that Chinese clothing and textile producers will be forced to import more cotton now the government of Xinjiang province has decided to reduce its total cotton farming area in 2015. A communiqué from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Agricultural Bureau said it wanted to reduce north-west China region’s total cotton farming area to 300 hectares, down 17.5% on 2014.…

Although Morocco’s garment production industry is well established, supplying giants such as Inditex, it is investing in capacity to compete with Asian rivals and new African competition, such as from Ethiopia and Mauritius.
As part of the 2014-2020 Accelerated Industrial Plan, the Moroccan government has assigned Moroccan Dirham MAD3 billion (USD304 million) for grants between these years for industrial small-and-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with established supply chains and sales networks.…

STANDARDS on pigments and colour set by international organisations are helping paint manufacturers ensure quality and cut costs, and are expected to become increasingly important.
“The foremost aim of international standardisation is to facilitate the exchange of goods and services through the elimination of technical barriers to trade,” said a document provided to Polymers Paint Colour Journal by the International Standardization Organization (ISO) (NOTE – ISO USES AMERICAN SPELLING) detailing the work of its technical committee (TC) 256 on ‘pigments, dyestuffs and extenders.’…

After years of strong economic growth, salaries of Chinese clothing makers have increased, resulting in more expensive Chinese textiles and clothing manufacturing. But while cheaper outsourcing locations such as Cambodia, Vietnam, Bangladesh and India have picked up the slack, experts both in China and abroad have yet to buy into the notion that garment production is dramatically shifting out of China.…