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The Bangladesh knitwear industry is looking to boost its exports of sweaters, competing with Chinese suppliers hampered by their government’s continuing tough lockdown responses to further outbreaks of Covid-19. Meanwhile, US tariffs imposed during the trade war launched by former American President Donald Trump persist, giving Bangladesh sweater exporters a continuing price advantage, augmenting its lower labour costs.…

Since the Taliban’s takeover last August (2021), Afghanistan’s AML/CFT regime has effectively been put on pause, while the country’s money laundering and terrorist financing risks mount amid international isolation.

The website of Afghanistan’s financial intelligence unit (FIU) is no longer active online.…

The Cambodian government has now launched a long-awaited five-year development plan to shape the future of the country’s garment, footwear and travel goods sector by boosting productivity and reducing tariffs on businesses, but industry commentators say its proposed reforms are still at an early stage.…

Pakistan textile and clothing industry has witnessed many advances and retreats during the last 10 years. With the country operating a less draconian set of lockdowns than neighbouring countries in south Asia, it has leveraged recent investment by increasing clothing and textile exports.…

Its launch may be more than a decade late, but the European Union’s (EU) first European Pressurised water Reactor (EPR) has finally started producing electricity for the Finnish national grid. Its strategic importance to Finland, as the country is preparing for NATO membership following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is hard to overstate.…

RUSSIA’s invasion of Ukraine will damage European Union (EU)-Russia trade in clothing including knitwear, but Russia will continue to make woolen clothes, say experts. Meanwhile, the war launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin is devastating Ukraine’s knitwear production and retail sector.…

The international steel sector is working to reduce its climate change impact through closer links to the renewable energy sector, along with steel making innovation and more recycling.  

This industry is responsible for between 7% and 9% of human-generated carbon dioxide, according to the World Steel Institute.…

RUSSIA’S invasion of Ukraine has prompted a major increase in sugar prices, the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said. Its FAO Sugar Price Index averaged 117.9 points in March, up 7.4 points (6.7%) from February, and up 20% year-on-year.…

The Covid-19 crisis has not stopped the dynamism of the drinks can market in France – where six billion cans are produced every year, indeed it seems to have strengthened sales. More than two drinks out of 10 – 22.3% – sold in French shops in 2021 were in cans, according to France’s drinks can industry association, La Boîte Boisson.…

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia in the devastating war started by President Vladimir Putin on February 24 has decimated the Ukraine dairy sector as well as being a humanitarian disaster, European dairy experts have told Dairy Industries International (DII).

“Dairy operations have come to an abrupt halt in parts of the country with all the consequences in terms of dairy supply to the population,” said Alexander Anton, secretary general of the European Dairy Association (EDA).…