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Related Keywords: Apparel Textile Sourcing Canada, ATSC show making debut in Toronto, Canadian Apparel Federation, Chinese suppliers, designers across Canada, eager to do business with Canadian partners, get a boost this summer, Made in Canada section, manufacturers, retailers, small businesses

With the Apparel Textile Sourcing Canada (ATSC) show making its debut in Toronto, from 22-24 August, small businesses, retailers, manufacturers and designers across Canada will get a boost this summer. ATSC will also bring to Canada hundreds of apparel and textile manufacturers from China, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, the US, Honduras, Peru and other countries.

A comprehensive trade show and conference will provide attendees with new insights and up-to-date information needed to effectively navigate through the sourcing process.

Related Keywords: fourth biggest producer of organic variety, ginning companies raising farmers amount, increase cultivation, next season cotton production may double, spurs Tanzanian farmers, Stronger price for fiber, Tanzania cotton board

Stronger prices for the fiber spurs Tanzanian farmers, the world’s fourth-biggest producer of the organic variety to increase cultivation which may double cotton production to a four year high next season, said a government agency.

Emmanuel Mwangulumba, chief regulatory officer at the Tanzania Cotton Board said that ginning companies are raising the amount they pay farmers to an average of 1,000 shillings ($0.46) per kilogram (2.2 pounds), 25 percent more than they previously received.

Related Keywords: cotton growers reduced pesticide applications, export of cotton and cotton products, extra moisture following heavy monsoon, likely to surge by fourteen percent, Pakistan cotton production, swells yields, USDA

Pakistan’s cotton production is likely to surge by 14 percent to 8.0 million bales (480-pound bales) as extra moisture following heavy monsoon this year swells yields, during the current crop season of 2016/17, said the USDA.

According to the USDA, area harvested is estimated at 2.5 million hectares (mha), down 0.3 mha or 11 percent from last year while yield is estimated at 694 kilograms per hectare, up 28 percent from last year.

Related Keywords: Ajay Tamta, help in reducing migration, improve conditions of weavers, modern technology, parks will provide hi tech infrastructure facilities, raw material, search of jobs, state government to decide where to set parks, training, Union Minister of state for Textiles, Uttarakhand gets approval for setting up two textile parks, Weavers

Uttarakhand has being given approval for setting up two textile parks, in these parks weavers which will provide hi tech infrastructure facilities, modern technology, training and raw material, said Union Minister of State for Textiles, Ajay Tamta.

But the state government has to decide where it wants to set these two textile parks which will provide benefit for weavers.

This will also help in reducing migration in the hilly areas in search of jobs and not only the weavers but educated and skilled youth will also get work opportunities.

Related Keywords: become city of developed textile industry, exported abroad, Kutaisi, legislative capital of Georgia, materials will be imported, near future, open special centres, sewed clothes with the label Made in Georgia, ten thousand people will work at textile enterprises, third largest city, train future employees, two new plants will be built

Kutaisi, a legislative capital of Georgia, and its third largest city by 2017 will become city of the developed textile industry as two new plants will be built in the near future and 10,000 people will work at the textile enterprises, said the Secretary General of International Investors Association of Georgia, Osman Chalishkan.

According to Osman Chalishkan, today, the main problem is the lack of qualified personnel, and they are negotiating with the Ministry of Economics regarding the opening of special centres to train future employees of the textile companies.

Related Keywords: expand capacities for specialty fibers, growth plans, high-quality botanic fibers, leadership position in global market, Lenzing Group, make investment, manufacturing facility in Heiligenkreuz, strong market demand, Tencel premium fibers underpinned

The Lenzing Group to make investment of about Euro 70 millon in Heiligenkreuz and Euro 30 million at the Lenzing site to expand its capacities for specialty fibers by 35,000 tons by mid 2018, Strategic importance of the manufacturing facility in Heiligenkreuz, Burgenland for TENCEL premium fibers is underpinned.

Related Keywords: act as an incentive for producers, added products include leather handbags, cotton handbags, cotton totes, create linkages with US buyers, enter the US duty free, GSP, leather totes, moisture management fabrics handbags, new additional list of goods, Rwanda exporters, SMEs to increase production, take full advantage of new AGOA trade facility

With the announcement of the new additional list of goods that will enter the US duty free under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) scheme, entrepreneurs have been urged to take full advantage to enhance Rwanda’s export volumes and revenue.

Francois Kanimba, the Minister for Trade and Industry, said that this development should act as an incentive for producers, particularly small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) to increase production to benefit fully from the AGOA arrangement.

Related Keywords: attract excise duty, cotton fibres attract none, distorted domestic consumption pattern, duty disparity, Goods and services tax regime, GST, hurting export competitiveness, level playing field vis a vis cotton textiles, manmade fibres, policy maker, prevent domestic producers from scaling up operations, Textile Industry

At present, man-made fibres attract a 12% excise duty while cotton fibres attract none. This duty disparity has distorted the domestic consumption pattern in favour of the cotton fibre, divergent to the global trend. The man-made textile segment long neglected by policy makers, finally expects a “level-playing field” vis-a-vis cotton textiles as the country braces for a goods and services tax (GST) regime.

Taiwan origin 3D bright ASF tow offers were stable in the third week of July while offers for regular specs rolled over on the week. In China, medium-length staple fiber and cotton-type staple prices remained unchanged on the week. Acrylic staple fibre markets continued to remain range bound that week, despite surges seen in cotton, VSF and polyester fiber.

Related Keywords: acrylic staple fibre, acrylonitrile prices, ASF prices, asf prices in China, asf prices in India, asf prices in Pakistan

US acrylonitrile spot surged to one-year high on supply outage, the highest level since 7 July. Spot spiked US$125 a ton FOB USG in the third week of July, which ended on 22nd July 2016.

European acrylonitrile prices rose despite Ineos restarting Seal Sands ACN plant and imports in January-May rising 12% year-on-year. European acrylonitrile was up US$20 a ton on the week.

Related Keywords: Acrylonitrile price in Asia, Acrylonitrile price in Europe, Acrylonitrile price in USA, asf producers, chemical grade propylene