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Related Keywords: approved incentives, create and save jobs, CTCP, Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa, DTI, help boost the clothing and textile sector, opportunities to keep it sustainable, PIP, through the Production Incentives Programme, within the Clothing and Textiles Competitiveness Programme

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) of South Africa, to help boost the clothing and textile sector through the Production Incentives Programme (PIP) within the Clothing and Textiles Competitiveness Programme (CTCP), has approved R4.9 billion in incentives, with more thanR3.1 billion disbursed in the last financial year to create and save jobs in the sector, said Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies.

Throughout the sector, a number of companies that qualified and drew from both programmes were able to save 81 252 jobs, while an additional 9 672 jobs were created.

Related Keywords: a large local demand for silk, benchmark silk industry in Negros Occidental, Bukidnon Provincial Office, Department of Trade and Industry, DTI, joins technology mission, organized by Northern Mindanao Technical Working Group, revitalize Mindanao silk industry, TWG

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Bukidnon Provincial Office to revitalize the Mindanao silk industry joins the technology mission organized by Northern Mindanao Technical Working Group (TWG) to benchmark the silk industry in Negros Occidental.

The activity aims to learn more about the potentials of the industry, study the technologies needed to improve the current practices in the region, as well as explore the possibility of forging a partnership between the different agencies in Northern Mindanao and the leading silk manufacturer in the country today.

Related Keywords: capital equipment funding, cheap import flooding the market, clothing and textile industry, Competitiveness Improvement Program, DTI, incentive initiative, lost of jobs, new state of the art machines, Production Incentive Program, support companies, The Department of Trade and Industry

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), through its incentive initiative in form of its Production Incentive Program (PIP) and Competitiveness Improvement Program (CIP) has supported hundreds of companies in the clothing and textile industry to maintain or create much needed jobs. The sector has lost thousands of jobs over several years mainly due cheap imports flooding the market.

Related Keywords: apparel and textile, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Department of Trade and Industry, DTI, featuring fashion accessories, help MSME grow, hold international and domestic fair, Manila FAME fair, Philippines, promote Philippine products, reach international markets

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to promote Philippine products and help micro, small and medium, enterprises (MSME) grow has planned to hold three international fairs as well as several domestic fairs this year.

The international and domestic trade fairs will be conducted to provide Philippine businesses, particularly MSMEs, a platform to showcase their products.

Trade Undersecretary Ponciano Manalo Jr. said that they will have three international fairs mainly two (editions of) Manila FAME plus IFEX (International Food Exhibition).