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Related Keywords: jute air exhibition, National Jute Board, natural yarn of jute

Master weavers from across the country have put up their exhibits in 23 stalls at the ‘Jute Air’ exhibition facilitated by National Jute Board, Hyderabad, under the Ministry of Textiles of India that began at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Bhavan, on Friday.

The natural yarn of jute in varied shapes and forms met the eyes at ‘Jute Air’ exhibition with entrepreneurs and direct manufacturers from different places like Srikakulam, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, and other regions up with their exhibits

Related Keywords: Indian Researchers, National Chemical Laboratory, silkworms, spin coloured silk

Eco-friendly method to help silkworms spin naturally fluorescent, coloured silk have been successfully developed by Indian researchers by feeding them dyed mulberry leaves.

For some 5,000 years, cultivated silkworms have been spinning white silk fibres destined for use in the finest clothing. Current dyeing practices produce wastewater that contains potentially harmful toxins, so scientists are turning to a "greener" dyeing method in which they coax coloured fibres from the caterpillars by feeding them dyed leaves.

Related Keywords: Chinese Textiles, Indian Land, Keer Group, Lancaster County, manufacturing, South Carolina

Keer Group, Chinese textile manufacturer and yarn spinner to invest $218 million to establish its U.S. operations, which will be named Keer America Corp., in Indian Land, S.C. The investment includes construction of a 230,000-square-foot manufacturing facility and the creation of 501 jobs to Lancaster County, South Carolina over the next five years.

The Keer Group is building its first facility outside China. But in exchange for bringing jobs to South Carolina, the company will pay less than half of the property tax rate and receive a 7.7 million dollar bond to help pay for construction.

Related Keywords: GSP, Pakistan exporters, refund claims, textile sector

Pakistan textile exports in quantity and value terms have been unsuccessful in gaining momentum and have remained below the desired level. Moreover, huge amounts for its exporters stuck in refund regimes.

The Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) has sought immediate intervention of the government for the release of huge amounts for its exporters stuck in refund regimes, demanding zero ratings on textile exports.

Related Keywords: All India Handloom Technology Institute, handloom, Machilipatnam, Union Minister for Textiles

Union Minister for Textiles Kavuri Sambasiva Rao announced that the state government has decided to set up a All India Handloom Technology Institute with a project cost of Rs 35 crore, in Krishna district headquarters of Machilipatnam.

The announcement came in last night, after inaugurating a training programme of Jamdani saree weaving under integrated skill development scheme in Kappaladoddi village of Guduru Mandal in Krishna district by Rao. All India Handicrafts Commissioner S Gupta and Krishna District Collector M Raghunandana Rao were also present on the occasion.

Related Keywords: Cotton market, India, Karachi Cotton Association, New York, trading, world cotton market

Trading activity continued to remain slow on the cotton market on Saturday with both buyers and sellers making every efforts to turn the prices in their favour. Most buying deals offered by spinners were not obliged by ginners who are holding back their stocks in the hope of a price rise.

Brokers said that the rapidly rising prices of phutti (seed cotton) are instrumental in pushing cotton prices higher which forced ginners to ask for higher price for cotton.

Related Keywords: cotton, cotton yarn, DGFT, exporters, Registration certificates

Government simplifying Registration Certificates (RC) procedures for various commodities including cotton and cotton yarn. To this effect the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has issued a notification which reads “There shall be no requirement of submitting any document in electronic filing for obtaining Registration Certificates (RCs)”

Exporters of cotton and cotton yarn with immediate effect have been exempted from mandatory filing of documents in physical form to obtain registration certificates for shipment.

Related Keywords: garment, Textile, TPP negotiations, Vietnam

Vietnamese government in the negotiating process of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), has given garment and textile utmost preference, as it saw an export revenue increase of 18.6 percent year-on-year. In 2013, Vietnam earned 17.98 billion U.S. dollars from selling garment products to overseas markets, according to Vietnam's Statistics Office (GSO).

Related Keywords: Cotton market, India, Karachi Cotton Association, New York, trading, world cotton market

With buyers and sellers reluctant to agree on a common price, trading activity botched to pick up on the cotton market on Friday.

Floor brokers said that it seemed that buyers and sellers were marking time before drawing future strategy to get maximum benefit out of duty-free market access given by the European Union (EU) to Pakistani products.

Related Keywords: cotton, Cotton Leads, Fruit of the Loom, responsibly-produced, textile brands

Cotton Leads, which was launched just over two months ago, is a joint initiative by the Australian and US cotton industries is committed to improving farm production practices, environmental stewardship and “the dissemination of best practices information broadly throughout the world's cotton producing countries”.

Thirty textile companies across the USA, China, Taiwan and Europe have signed up to a programme that sources responsibly-produced cotton.