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INTERNATIONAL police agency Interpol is to create a pharmaceutical crime programme after striking a three year funding deal with 29 medicine manufacturers. The programme will build on the work of Interpol’s existing medical product counterfeiting and pharmaceutical crime (MPCPC) unit. An Interpol note said this new initiative would “focus on the prevention of all types of pharmaceutical crime including branded and generic drug counterfeiting as well as the identification and dismantling of organised crime networks linked to this illegal activity, which generates millions in illicit profits every year.”…

IF there is one crime condemned worldwide it is the sale and smuggling of counterfeit medicines. Sometimes close copies and sometimes dangerous substances – this crime kills on a grand scale.

Counting the number of its victims accurately is difficult, because of the subversive nature of the trade, but some think-tanks have tried.…

INCREASED competition and a weakened global economy have not dimmed expectations for Vietnam-based knitwear exporters, with two major trade deals looming, able to guarantee duty free exports to the US and the European Union (EU). They will also remove non-tariff barriers impeding trade, boosting optimism amongst established exporters of quality Vietnam-made knitwear.…

AMERICA’S Save Our Industries Act, also known as the SAVE Act, which would give a range of Philippines-made apparel duty-free access to the US, looks increasingly likely to be implemented. And the Filipino clothing and textile sector is happy. The bill, first introduced to the US Congress in 2009, is to be re-introduced to Congress this month for the third time.…

PART 1 – THE RAPID EVOLUTION OF MULTI-CHANNEL

The apparel retail world has been altered profoundly by technology over the last few years, and the fashion industry knows that to succeed marketing and sales must be undertaken though the many new channels that are now available. …

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) textile and clothing industry is unsure whether it stands to benefit or to lose from a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between EU and Thailand, for which negotiations were announced earlier this month (March 6). “The Commission still needs to launch the public consultation to hear the industry views,” Luisa Santos, head of international trade at the European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex) told just-style.…

Industrial minerals production in Malaysia is growing strongly, meeting increasing demand within the country driven largely by its rapidly developing economy. According to figures from Malaysia’s department of minerals and geoscience and the department of statistics, total industrial minerals production in Malaysia grew 10.7% to 207.6 million tonnes in 2011 – the latest year for which comprehensive figures are available – with the total value growing 16.5% to Malaysian Ringgit MYR3.3 billion (USD1 billion).…

WHILE Alaska’s mining industry has seen impressive growth in output through 2012, with high commodity prices for gold and silver in particular boosting exploration and production, experts predict a relatively flat performance in 2013.

At the lowermost rung of the value ladder is coal, a sector adversely impacted by both slack global demand and increasing competition from alternative fuel sources.…

NONWOVENS manufacturing has grown fast in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, with most of the major players less than two decades old. With a burgeoning population and strong export potential, MENA production has in general doubled over the past five years, especially in the region’s manufacturing hubs of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which currently have the strongest nonwovens sectors.…

THE UNITED States, the European Union (EU) and Japan will press ahead with a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute complaint against Argentina’s use of import licenses and other measures to restrict auto and auto part imports, despite Argentina’s claims that the restrictions have now been removed.…