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Related Keywords: below normal value, cheap inbound shipments, DGAD during investigation, exported from China, impose anti dumping duty, Indian government, mulberry raw silk from China, multilateral World Trade Organization regime, protect domestic silk industry

The Indian government to protect silk domestic industry from cheap in-bound shipments of mulberry raw silk from neighbouring country, China is likely to impose anti-dumping duty of $1.85 (approx. Rs.122) per kg. The directorate general of anti-dumping and allied duties (DGAD) during its investigation has concluded that “mulberry raw silk of grade 3A and below” has been exported to India from China below its normal value and due to which, the domestic industry has suffered “material injury”.

Related Keywords: anti-piracy task force, Association of Ghana Industries, at cross road, fair competition, Ghanaian textile industry, government efforts to stop piracy, manufactured in Ghana, of Ghana Textile Prints, original textile designs, pirated textiles smuggled, relatively expensive

The once-vibrant Ghanaian textile industry is at a cross-road due to pirated textiles smuggled into the country despite the government’s constant efforts to stop piracy in the country. It’s impacting the operations of textile companies as cheap pirated textiles make original textile designs manufactured in Ghana relatively expensive.

There were about 20 textile companies which employed about 25,000 in the 1980s. But currently there is a remnant of just four textile companies employing fewer than 2,000 people, battling to stay in business amid a myriad of challenges.

Related Keywords: backed up with population growth, carpets, demand for textiles and fabrics, diversified development programs, foreign investments, handicrafts, major annual meeting for commercial sectors, Middle East Gulf region, readymade fabrics, showcasing family requirements, Sixth Winter International Trade Exhibition for Textiles and Light Industries

The 6th Winter International Trade Exhibition for Textiles and Light Industries which has become a major annual meeting for all commercial sectors in the Middle East-Gulf region opens on Sunday showcasing all family requirements of readymade fabrics carpets furniture gifts antiques handicrafts leather items, household items, kitchenware, decorative items and the latest developments in the light industrial sector across the Kingdom.

Related Keywords: busy with year end closing activities, clearing cotton import payments of banks, cotton bales, Increased buying, Karachi Cotton Association, majority of textile mill owners, Pakistan cotton market, remained at two months low, take place next year, Trade turnover of cotton

With majority of textile mill-owners staying busy with year-end closing activities trade turnover of cotton remained at two months low at 3,200 bales (of 155 kilogram each), said dealers on Saturday.

The Karachi Cotton Association reported traders bought 3,200 bales at Rs4,900-5,500/maund (37.324 kilogram) as compared to 11,635 bales bought at Rs4,900-5,600/maund on the previous working day (Wednesday).

Related Keywords: Cooptex, interactive session on Vintage Kancheevarams, Kancheepurams silk sari, more than five decades old saris, Mupaggam, Muthukattam, new avatar, online forum W, Paayadi, Tamilnadu Handloom Weavers' Co-operative Society Ltd., textile enthusiasts discussed, Thuttripoo, Vaira oosi, Women Weave World

Tamilnadu Handloom Weavers' Co-operative Society Ltd., (Co-optex) organized an interactive session on ‘Vintage Kancheevarams’ on Saturday, where textile enthusiasts from the city came together and discussed saris that were more than five decades old and the Kancheepurams silk sari’s new avatar.

The highlight of an exhibition organized as a part of the ‘Vintage Kanjeevarams’ interaction were silk saris developed specially by Cooptex in the colours and designs popularised by the legendary singer M.S. Subbulakshmi on the occasion of her birth centenary celebrations.

Related Keywords: cotton fabric, cotton yarn, decline in overall textile exports, four hours a day basis, objecting the rate of LNG, Punjab based textile industry, quantitative terms, restore gas supply, SNGPL, spinners and weavers, Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Company Ltd, supply sixty MMCFD LNG, textile millers, USD nine per MMBTU

The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Company Ltd (SNGPL) following the directions on Thursday from Federal Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar restores gas supply for four hours a day basis to Punjab based textile industry, said industry sources. The SNGPL would supply 60 MMCFD LNG at the cost of $9 per MMBTU against the industry demand from both spinners and weavers asking for LNG supply at the rate of $8.5 per MMBTU.

Related Keywords: abolishe all import duties among its signatories, complicated rules of origin, failing to join TPP, join the mega-FTA, Korea Economic Research Institute report. US led FTA, Korea export of parts and material, price competitiveness, set up new business models, shipments via global supply networks, suffer losses

Korea likely to suffer losses of 15.5 trillion won ($13.3 billion) in its export of parts and materials over 10 years failing to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, a think tank said on Thursday.

According to the Korea Economic Research Institute report, Korea's exports of parts and materials to the United States are estimated to drop $11.3 billion in terms of added value, for 10 years after the TPP goes into effect, if the U.S.-led free trade agreement abolishes all import duties among its signatories.

Related Keywords: Chairman A Alagesan, demands hundred acres, dyers facing effluent related problems, easy and cost effective, establish integrated textile processing park and CETP, movement of finished fabric, petition sent to Chief Minister, process tonnes of material, provide direct employment, Salem Yarn Colouring Park, set up CETP only solution

Chairman of Salem Yarn Colouring Park Private Limited, A Alagesan, in a petition sent to the Chief Minister stated that dyers have been facing effluent related problems and set up CETP is the only solution. Hence, the members involved in yarn colouring demands 100 acres for establishing an integrated textile processing park with Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) here.

If the park with CETP is established it would not only provide direct employment to 3,000 workers apart from indirect jobs to 15,500 workers.

Related Keywords: approached the rural development ministry afresh, average daily income, below the mandatory wage, extension of rural job scheme, Handloom weavers, Job scheme MGNREGS, largest job provider after agriculture, only silk farming covered, seeking extension to entire textile and garment sector, Textile Ministry, weavers are not unskilled workers

At present, within the textile sector, only silk farming is covered under the job scheme (MGNREGS) under which workers are provided the mandatory wage in the range of Rs159-241 day, depending on states and Union territories, for 100 days a year. However, the ministry has been seeking the extension of the MGNREGS to the entire textile and garment sector, which employs some 45 million people and is the largest job provider after agriculture.

Related Keywords: based in Singapore, contracted manufacturing network, Ghim Li Group, local garment manufacturing factories, lower cost countries, moving out of Singapore, no means a sunset industry, operates thirteen manufacturing facilities overseas, running operation from headquarters, Sing Lun Holdings, Singapore textile and apparel sector

The textile and apparel sector of Singapore is by no means a sunset industry despite many local garment manufacturing factories moving out of Singapore over the years to lower cost countries in the region but running their operations from headquarters, based here in Singapore.