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Related Keywords: cotton, exporters, Exporters Association, garment, Garment exporter, garment manufacturers, manufacturers, supplying brands, Textile, women workers

The first woman to head one of Bangladesh’s biggest garment associations said on Tuesday she would boost female leadership as most factory workers were women, amid scrutiny over safety.

Rubana Huq, 55, is managing director of Mohammadi Group, which owns a string of factories supplying brands like H&M and Primark in Bangladesh, the world’s second largest garment exporter, employing 4 million people.

Related Keywords: 350 exhibitors from 7 countries, accessories, B2B relationships, exporters, fashion, fashion and textiles, industrial sectors, latest trends, manufacturers and distributors, Moroccan expertise, Morocco Style, Morocco Style 2018, national and international companies, Pyramids Group, ready-to-wear professionals: Importers, Textile, textile sector, weave

Morocco Style is an irreproachable opportunity for fashion, textile, accessories, ready-to-wear professionals: Importers, exporters, manufacturers and distributors to weave B2B relationships in this sector which is in constant evolution. This unique fair is organizing by Pyramids Group and co-organizing by AMITH and with the partnership of Atelier Vita.

Related Keywords: displaying varieties of apparel fabrics, exporters, home textiles, IITExpo-Colombo 2018, knitted and non-woven, made-ups, More than 40 Indian fabric manufacturers, organized by Powerloom Development & Export Promotion Council, PDEXCIL, showcasing textiles of India, three day event, to take place next week in Colombo, traditional item, woven

IITExpo-Colombo 2018, a three day event organized by Powerloom Development & Export Promotion Council (PDEXCIL) showcasing textiles of India, to take place next week in Colombo. This is for the third time the event is being held in Sri Lanka, previous event held in 2013 & 2017.

Related Keywords: Bangladesh garment manufacturers, BGMEA, China and the Latin American countries, Chittagong port and airports, demand for efficient functioning, exporters, growth of apparel exports, import garment items, India, knitwear sector, stable power tariff, target emerging exports destinations, worth billions of dollars every year

Bangladesh garment manufacturers and exporters to target emerging exports destinations like India, China and the Latin American countries as they import garment items worth billions of dollars every year. For the continued growth of apparel exports, they have demanded that the government ensure efficient functioning of the Chittagong port and airports and a stable power tariff.

Tapan Chowdhury, president of the Bangladesh Textile Mills Association said that they want price predictability of electricity and gas so that they can plan for long periods in their business.

Related Keywords: accreditation guidelines to cover, avail of preferential tariffs under GSP, Boost compliance of Philippine garments and textile firms, DTI BOI and DOLE, exporters, garment manufacturers, guidelines for issuance, international labor standards, Joint Department Order signed, subcontractors, suspension or revocation of certificates accreditation

To boost compliance of Philippine garments and textile firms with international labor standards, a Joint Department Order (DO) was signed between the Department of Trade & Industry-Board of Investments (DTI-BOI) and the Department of Labor & Employment (DOLE) on 25 July 2017 for the guidelines for the issuance, suspension or revocation of certificates of accreditation for garments firms.

Related Keywords: cash shortage, continue to increase further, cotton prices, exporters, Farmers are not aggressive to bring raw cotton, gone up due to short arrival, good demand from domestic mills, kapas, mandis across India, no rise in supply in near future, pipeline is still dry, Punjab cotton ginners association

Cotton prices have gone up due to short arrival and good demand from domestic mills and exporters. It may continue to increase further as there is no hope for rise in supply in near future and pipeline is still dry. Farmers are not aggressive to bring raw cotton or kapas in the mandis across India due to cash shortage, said Bhagwan Bansal, president, Punjab Cotton Ginners Association.

Related Keywords: buying spree, cotton bales, cotton imports from India, cotton yarn, exporters, KCA, Leading spinners, Pakistan cotton market, phyto sanitary certification, pushing prices higher, rising demand for quality cotton, spot rate rise, Textile Industry, trading activity

Trading activity at Pakistan cotton market witnessed rising demand for quality cotton pushing prices higher on Thursday where leading spinners and some exporters remained in the front of buying spree.

The Karachi Cotton Association’s spot rates saw rise by Rs50, to Rs6,300 per maund (around 37 kilograms).

Buyer remain under panic due to confusion over cotton imports from India and indirect ban based on reports that Indian cotton shipments failed to fulfil phyto-sanitary certification, threatening the $822 million-a-year trade.

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Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCFH) has submitted final proposal to the Ministry of Textiles for setting up two large handicraft warehouses in Latin America and Russia to promote Indian products in a big way. EPCFH is waiting for a positive response soon from Ministry of Textiles.

Related Keywords: decline in cotton arrival, exporters, Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association, Pakistan ginneries, seed cotton, Textile mills

Seed cotton (Phutti) equivalent to over 1,339,990 bales of cotton have reached ginneries across Pakistan as of September 1 showing 23.96 percent decline compared to corresponding period last year when ginneries received 1,762,282 bales, according to figures of cotton arrival up to September 1 issued by Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA).

Related Keywords: apparel manufacturing industries, Bangladesh ministry of finance, exporter to apply, exporters, finished jute goods, for new products, last and fourth tranche of cash incentives, new market expansion, release cash incentives, small and medium garment factories, to Bangladesh Bank

The Bangladesh ministry of finance has advised the Chief Accounts Officer of the Finance Division on Thursday to release the funds in favour of the central bank to hand over the cash incentives to the exporters for a period from April 2015 to July 2015.

This will be the last and fourth tranche of cash incentives amounting to Tk 13.75 billion for major exporters for the current fiscal year by the government.