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Related Keywords: at present forty garment factories, Clothing and Footwear Council of Fiji, exports to remain stable, garment industry this year, hopes to see some new players, in MSG group. Finding skilled staff, plans to explore new markets, received some interest, remains a challenge, Textile, textile and garment industry

The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Council of Fiji having received some interest, hopes to see some new players in the garment industry this year, said TCF president Kaushik Kumar. Presently, there are more than 40 garment factories in the country.

On the council's expectations for this year, Mr Kumar said that they also expect exports to remain stable and have plans to explore new markets in the MSG group.

In the past few weeks garment factories advertised for a number of positions ranging from machinist to other garment factory workers.

Related Keywords: against requirement, All Pakistan Textile Mills Association, APTMA, bear the additional burden, compete in export market, countries with lower cost of raw cotton, likely to remain low this year, Local crop of Sindh-Balochistan zone, raw cotton, seeks immediate withdrawal four percent import duty, Textile Industry, without import incidential

As the local crop of Sindh-Balochistan zone is likely to remain low this year to 11.25 million bales against the requirement of 14.5 million bales. The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) seeks immediate withdrawal of four percent import duty on raw cotton by the government.

Related Keywords: aims to become major uniform hub, attracting attention of the armed forces, closely-knit and largely unorganised garments and uniforms industry, organize first-ever three-day global exhibition and fashion shows for uniforms, showcase capabilities of garment and uniform, Shri Solapur Readymade Garment Manufacturing Association, Solapur, SRGMA

Solapur’s closely-knit and largely unorganised garments and uniforms industry is attracting attention of the armed forces, according to Nilesh S. Shah, Vice-President of Shri Solapur Readymade Garment Manufacturing Association (SRGMA).

The Solapur industry players sensing a huge business potential, plans to urge Maharashtra Textile Minister Subhash Deshmukh to take recommend to the Union Government, a proposal to consider the state's Solapur as a hub for providing uniforms for the armed forces and police personnel in the country, industry officials of Solapur said on Monday.

Bright conventional spinning nylon-6 offers in Asia surged US$240 a ton in the second week of December. Offers for semi-dull high-speed spinning chip were up US$270 a ton on the week.

Taiwan‐origin high-speed chip offers were hiked by another US$200 a ton. High-end engineering plastics grade chip prices moved up US$260 a ton on the week.

Related Keywords: caprolactum prices, crude values, nylon-6 offers in Asia, polyamide chips, semi-dull high-speed spinning chip, Taiwan‐origin high-speed nylon chip

Asian spot benzene spiked US$108-120 a ton FOB Korea and CFR Taiwan in the second week of December. The CFR India was up US$120 a ton on the week. Benzene prices gave back a significant part of its previous week’s gains as buyers were resistant to such sharp hikes. Sellers in Asia were unlikely to compromise on prices until given the price uptrend in crude oil and feedstock was established.

Related Keywords: Asian spot benzene, benzene prices, benzene prices in Europe, benzene prices in US, crude oil prices, Latin benzene prices, toluene prices

Related Keywords: charge d'affaires, Director-General of Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry Khalid bin Butti Al Hajri, emirate of Sharjah has deep economic ties with Serbia, garment, headed by Milos Perisic, meeting with high-level delegation of Serbian senior trade and economic, seeks to strengthen investment and trade ties, textile industrie, with Serbia

Director-General of Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry Khalid bin Butti Al Hajri during a meeting with a high-level delegation of Serbian senior trade and economic representatives headed by presided over by Milos Perisic, charge d'affaires at the Serbian Embassy in the UAE said that the emirate of Sharjah has deep economic ties with Serbia and seeks to strengthen investment and trade ties with Serbia.

Related Keywords: Biggest export market of Vietnam, by thirty to forty percent, consumes fifty percent, export increase with or without TPP, if TPP takes effect, in first year of agreement implementation, increase by twofold after three to four years, textile and garment export turnover would increase, the US, Vietnamese total textile & garment export turnover

Vietnam’s biggest export market, the US which consumes 50 percent of Vietnam’s total textile & garment export turnover, if TPP takes effect, analysts estimate that Vietnam’s textile & garment export turnover would increase by 30-40 percent in the first year of the agreement implementation, and would increase by twofold after three to four years.

In October 2016 alone, Vietnam exported $9.476 billion worth of textile & garment products to the US. This means that export turnover would reach $16 billion by 2018, an increase of $3 billion, and to $20 billion by 2020.

Related Keywords: campaign to support cotton, capacity of around one million bales, cotton, ginneries, hopes are high industry would embrace a boom, lint production, main source of income for households. Ugandan government launch, striving to revamp the sector, Uganda farmers, Ugandas third largest export crop

Cotton is Uganda’s third largest export crop after coffee and tea, as well as the main source of income for some 250,000 households. After the Ugandan government launching a campaign to support cotton and other local industries many of the farmers, hopes are high that the industry would embrace a boom.

Related Keywords: ginners anticipating better profit, in line with the international track, in the process of trading activity, official spot rate remained unchanged, on the cotton market, phutti rates, Prices moved up, seed cotton prices, steady flow of buying from spinners

Prices moved up on the cotton market on Saturday in the process of trading activity in line with the international track, dealers said. In Sindh, seed cotton prices were at Rs 2600-3250, while in Punjab, phutti rates were at Rs 2800 and Rs 3500, as per 40 kg. However, the official spot rate remained unchanged at Rs 6250.

Related Keywords: labour market trends, low-skilled workers, major downsides of technological revolution, millions of workers, most harmed, survey by Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Technology movement in Vietnam, textile sector to get affected, With robots and computing advancements replacing workers, workers need to improve their skill

With the technology movement in Vietnam, millions of workers in the textile sector to get affected, according to a survey by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Vienam on labour market trends.This is one of the major downsides of the technological revolution that has for many years also greatly benefited people and economies. To ensure jobs, not only the State and enterprises, but also the workers themselves have to improve their skills to adapt.