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PAKISTAN’S denim export industry hopes that help for the textile announced by the government in February (exemption from paying sales tax and payment of long overdue tax refunds) and in a meeting with industry leaders in September (a promised reduction in energy costs) will boost this promising segment.…

Indian cotton exports to Pakistan are expected to drop sharply after rising political tensions between the two neighbours over the Kashmir issue and the availability of more competitive cotton from West African countries and United States, WTiN has been told.

“There are concerns of [Indian and Pakistan] putting a stop to each other’s trade,” said Atif Dada, chairman of the Karachi Cotton Association, in Karachi.…

The manufacture of textiles for European buyers is likely to move away from its Chinese production base and move back closer to “home”, particularly in the technical markets, Lutz Walter, secretary general of the European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing (ETP) – the largest European textiles research and innovations network – has told WTiN.com.…

THE UNITED States and China have released detailed plans for reducing their governments’ support for fossil fuel, production and use, as they announced their ratification of the COP21 climate change deal struck in Paris last December.

These policy promises from Washington and Beijing have emerged from voluntary peer reviews chaired by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD).…

PAINT and coatings companies and their suppliers can now benefit from pre-declared data during the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) May 2018 REACH registration deadline, for chemicals made or imported in volumes between 1-100 tonnes per year. ECHA has published a list of 7,000 substances for which a ‘lead registrant’ company has been declared in the REACH-IT computer system, which collates data needed for a REACH registration.…

The word from David Lewis, the new secretary general of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), is that the UK’s impending ‘Brexit’ departure from the European Union (EU) should not immediately compromise the global fight against money laundering. “The United Kingdom is a founding member of the FATF and its membership and participation in the FATF is not dependent on its membership of the EU”, he told the Money Laundering Bulletin in an exclusive interview.…

A PAPER released to yesterday’s (Oct 24) global symposium on preventing antibiotic resistance has signalled that international action should including restricting the prophylactic treatment of livestock with such medicines.

This report was prepared by the World Health Organisation (WHO), World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and was called ‘How to Foster Innovation, Access and Appropriate Use of Antibiotics?’…

A SENIOR scientist warned an international trade conference in Geneva this afternoon (Oct 24) on anti-microbial resistance that rich countries will increasingly ban the import of meat from livestock fed antibiotic growth promoters. Jørgen Schlundt, Professor of Food Science and Technology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, noted the upcoming January 1 introduction of a ban on the use of most antobiotics as growth promoters within the United States meat and livestock sector, while the EU already has a comprehensive ban.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) and United States negotiators have made as much progress as they can in their comprehensive trade talks ahead of the November 8 US presidential and congressional elections, with EU officials highlighting textiles, including knitwear, as a key area of agreement.…

Vietnam’s National Salary Council may have increased the country-wide minimum wage by the smallest proportion in a decade of such rises (7.3% for 2017), but the country’s clothing manufacturers are still warning this is a hike too far.

The Vietnam Textile & Apparel Association (VITAS) has opposed the increase.…