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Investment agreement signed between Rieter and Cotton & Textiles Holding Company at ITMA 2019 expanded

The Egypt General Authority for Investment and Free Zones, in cooperation with the Swiss Embassy in Cairo, organized the Egyptian-Swiss…

4 years ago

Cotton yarn, fabric exports fall by 24%

Monthly exports of cotton yarn is at a 5-year-low. Export of cotton textiles continued their downtrend and registered a fall…

5 years ago

Pressure on the cotton prices remains maintained

Even though the trade dispute between the United States and China has moved away from escalation and towards reconciliation since…

5 years ago

Record number of fashion brands source Better Cotton

In 2018, the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) experienced a historic level of uptake, as 93 retailer and brand members sourced…

5 years ago

H&M pushes the demand for organic cotton

Nike tops the list of recycled polyester users. C&A is the world’s biggest user of organic cotton. Inditex is the…

6 years ago

APTMA suggests withdrawal of custom duty and sales tax on the import of cotton and polyester staple fibre

The APTMA spokesman has expressed alarm over the cut of regulatory duty on the import of cotton yarns from 10%…

6 years ago

Global brands to have least effect due to hike in import duty

Textile giant Arvind, is speeding up it’s efforts to localise end-to-end manufacturing of garments for global fashion brands. More than…

6 years ago

To double the import duty on over 50 textile products which aims at promoting domestic manufacturing is Government’s latest action

Imports of textile yarn, fabric and made-up articles grew by 8.58% to $168.64 million in June. Though, exports of cotton…

6 years ago

Drop in Chinese demand hurts cotton yarn exports

Exports declined 16.3% during the timeframe even though yarn production increased 3.5% between 2013-14 and 2017-18. The share of exports…

6 years ago

CITI explains that cotton production is estimated to grow by 8.11 per cent to 373 lakh bales in 2017-18 season ending September over the previous year

The closing stock of cotton for 2017-18 would be around 49.81 lakh bales which is quite adequate for the textile…

6 years ago