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Curbs introduced by the Chinese government on the use of electricity within the country have been significantly disrupting the textile supply chain, creating anxiety among garment manufacturers even beyond China’s borders. 

These challenges have unfolded after the powerful National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on September 16 unveiled a plan stipulating that China will firmly control energy-hungry and high-emission industrial projects.…

Turkish apparel manufacturers are investing significant sums of money in sustainability and traceability, implementing international standards, and adopting digitalisation in anticipation of more consumer demand for eco-friendly products.

With Turkey a higher-end (and cost) apparel manufacturing hub than east Asia, Egypt or Africa, the country’s industry is banking on its value-added production to retain as well as expand exports to Europe and North America.…

Ethiopian textile and clothing managers and workers are worried that the USA may expel their county from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade access, as armed conflict continues in Tigray.

The US Trade Representative Katherine Tai has said America would “soon” decide on Ethiopia’s status under AGOA, which gives its clothing and textile exporters duty-free access to the United States.…

One of the most important changes in geopolitics in the past 10 years has been the rise of China’s economic and military power, which has grown so much, its influence is now a serious rival to the hegemony of the United States.…

Many friends ask me why, as a businessman and investor controlling pioneering projects, why I am concerned with politics? I always answer that my experience has taught me that the key to progress lies in politics, and this is especially true in Arab countries, where, frankly, politics is everything. …

After the Second World War, Europe emerged economically and socially drained. The war had destroyed so much housing, industry and infrastructure and killed millions of people. Unsurprisingly, the societies of countries who had fought – or been fought over – and that was most of the continent – were brought their knees by the conflict.…

The coronavirus pandemic offers the governments of the Arab world a chance to rebuild trust with their citizens that has long been fragile, which was almost shattered by the protests of 2010-2021, collectively dubbed the Arab Spring. Of course, the results of this upheaval have been profoundly mixed – ranging from reform to war and more stagnation.…

THE PROSECUTORS unit behind last Thursday’s (September 9) raids on Germany’s finance and justice ministries has underlined how it is prepared to file criminal charges against senior officials in these departments as well as within the country’s FIU.

A statement released by the Staatsanwaltschaft Osnabrück (Osnabrück public prosecutors’ office), which has been ordered to probe the FIU, said its inquiries since 2020 has shown how the unit had repeatedly failed to pass on suspicious transaction on to the police and the judiciary.…

INTRODUCTION

The concept of bespoke tailoring and couture has long been regarded as the apex of clothing and textile making, given that it matches a garment closely to its wearer and intended use. Until now, such personal apparel has inevitably been expensive, given runs are individualised – indeed, bespoke has been the antithesis of mass-produced fast fashion.…

INTRODUCTION

While debates continue over whether Aristotle actually said ‘The whole is greater than the sum of its parts’, the concept that a system can deliver more impact than each element of its technology acting alone is well established in the textile sector.…