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Related Keywords: fabric importers, fabrics industry, Garment Exporters, garment industry, garment manufacturers, global fashion, global textile industry, International Textile Fair, ITF 2015, textile exhibition

National award winning textile exhibitors, global fashion authorities, revered academic institutions, exclusive keynote speakers, and the world’s leading corpus on sustainable fashion - assembled under one roof, can only signify one thing: ITF. The two-day event has long been hailed as the Middle East’s premier textile fair; and rightly so.

Related Keywords: best quality woolm Merino sheep, fine wool producer, global fashion, suplus building of fine wool, Tasmanian wool producers

Tasmania has been home to the best-quality wool in the world. Merino sheep have been bred in Tasmania for over 180 years. It is also the sheep’s living conditions which are responsible for the top-quality wool. Tasmania provides the greatest possible diversity. But fine wool producers in Tasmania have been seeing a steady decline in premiums falling by 96 percent since 2001.

Surplus building on the market after years of a push to 'get fine or get out' have been the main reason of the declining returns for fine wool.