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In the midst of the U.S.-China trade dispute, hundreds of Chinese companies will be making their way to Toronto later this month, ready to do business with Canadians. They will be participating in Canada’s largest apparel and textile trade show, Apparel Textile Sourcing Canada (ATSC), August 20-22, at the Toronto International Centre. Keynote speakers at the event are some of North America’s leading apparel and textile industry experts, ready to hone in on what the U.S.-China trade issues mean for Canadians and potential repercussions for the sector. Topping the roster of speakers are:

Related Keywords: Chinese companies, confronted with rising wages, Cotton market, fast increasing level of investment in Africa, higher energy bills, important customers, largely focused on large projects, major players in worlds textile market, mounting logistical costs, quotas on import of cotton, textile production in China

Chinese companies are the major players in the world’s textile market and important customers in the cotton market are fast increasing their level of investment in Africa. They have been largely focused on large projects as textile production in China is today confronted with rising wages, higher energy bills and mounting logistical costs, as well as quotas on the import of cotton.

Related Keywords: agricultural cooperation agreement, building textile, Chinese companies, implement electricity projects, in Sudan. speaker of Gazira state Legislative Council disclosed, power plants and dams, ready-made clothing factories, signed a MoU allowing Chinese companies to grow one million feddans of cotton, Sudanese government

The Sudanese government and Chinese companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) allowing the latter to grow one million feddans of cotton in Sudan. The feddan is a unit of area equivalent to 1.038 acres (0.42 ha). This was disclosed by the speaker of Gazira state Legislative Council.

On Wednesday, speaker of the Gazira state Legislative Council Jalal Min Allah Gibril said that the Chinese companies would cultivate 450,000 feddans in his state besides building textile and ready-made clothing factories.

Related Keywords: Chinese companies, Chinese yarn companies, Keer, Lancaster County, low cost manufacturing, South Carolina, Textile jobs, Textile mills, textile producers

The prospect of a sweeping Pacific trade agreement led by the United States, and excluding China, is driving Chinese yarn companies to gain a foothold in the lucrative U.S. market. China, once the epitome of cheap mass manufacturing, textile producers from formerly low-cost nations are starting to set up shop in America. It is part of a blurring of boundaries between high- and low-cost manufacturing nations that few would have predicted a decade ago.

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Zhejiang Xinao Industry, a Chinese company has acquired 12.7% shares worth 7.6 million in Masood Textile Mills a vertically-integrated textile manufacturing company with in-house yarn, knitting, fabric dyeing, processing, laundry and apparel manufacturing facilities in a privately negotiated deal, members of the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) learned on Friday.

Related Keywords: Chinese companies, Chinese textile group, dominate overseas investment, expansion plan, fashionable clothing, manufacturer and exports, Ningbo Shantex Co Ltd, takeover deals in Europe, textile accessories, United Kingdom based apparel chain

The international business news is once again dominated by Chinese companies' overseas investment and expansion plans. Chinese textiles group Ningbo Shantex Co Ltd which manufactures and exports textile accessories likely to make a takeover bid for United Kingdom-based apparel chain Phase Eight.

Shantex is already in preliminary talks with Towerbrook, a private equity company that bought Phase Eight in 2011. Phase Eight was established in 1979 by Patsy Seddon in London to offer fashionable clothing to sophisticated young suburban mothers.

Related Keywords: big-ticket items, black market, Chinese companies, North Korean manufacturers, produce export bound apparel, supply raw material, toll processors

The North Korean manufacturers are known as toll processors and use specialized equipment to produce export bound apparel for the Chinese companies, which supply the raw material. These contracted manufacturers have been found selling some of their finished products at bargain prices in the tightly-controlled country's black market, according to sources inside and outside North Korea.

Apparel such as coats are sold by the manufacturers without the knowledge of the Chinese companies and made from raw material skimmed off from the companies.