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Related Keywords: effort to create better manual accessories, Ethiopian Fair Trade company, global market, Handmade textiles inspired by ancient weaving traditions, linen and wool, linens for the home, produces hand made textiles, range of products in cotton, Sabahar only uses natural fibers, Sabahar Silk Garment Factory, silk, using locally sourced silk and cotton

Sabahar Silk Garment Factory, is an Ethiopian Fair Trade company that produces hand made textiles for the global market makes an effort to create better manual accessories and linens for the home using locally sourced silk and cotton. Handmade textiles inspired by ancient weaving traditions of the nation.
Sabahar only uses natural fibers to create beautiful products. The company now has a range of products in cotton, silk, linen and wool. Both the cotton and silk are entirely local.

Related Keywords: aiming to expand business, Amitabh Bachchan as brand ambassador, become market leader, both pan-India, fashionable and innovative brand, GBTL Ltd Grasim, global market, licensed user of TM Grasim, manufacturing of polyester viscose, polyester wool fabric, progress towards strategic goal, signed fashion icon, take brand to a supreme level

GBTL Ltd – Grasim (licensed user of TM Grasim) aiming to expand its business both pan-India as well as in global market, and progress towards their strategic goal to become the market leader has signed ‘fashion icon’ Amitabh Bachchan as its brand ambassador. By roping in Bachchan; the company has demonstrated its intent to take the brand to a supreme level, addressing the market needs and preferences of consumers across the length and breadth of India.

Related Keywords: apparel industry, Bangladesh exports apparel, cheaper rates, export apparel to the European market, eyeing Bangladesh., Free trade agreement, global market, labour rights issue, lack of sufficient labour, Maithripala Sirisena, not secured GSP Plus, Sri Lanka enjoys GSP plus, Sri Lankan President, strengthen bilateral ties, visited Bangladesh

Recently, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena visited Bangladesh to further strengthen the bilateral ties between the two nations which values at US $ 142 million and has potential to be boosted. For this purpose, there must be mutual understanding economically and politically between the two countries, in addition to the free trade agreement (FTA), for which two high commissioners had discussions a few months ago.

Related Keywords: apparel, attract top international firms, domestic, ease in entry, Ethiopian textile sector, Garments, global market, Hawassa Industrial Park, join middle income status, making all efforts, paves the way for nation, preferable gateway, productions of textile, step into industrialization, textile sector would benefit large number of people

Ethiopian textile sector is a preferable gateway to step into industrialization because of the ease in entry and it is making all efforts to attract top international firms. The textile sector would benefit large number of people and paves the way for nation to join middle income status in the very near future.

Related Keywords: deadline for ending direct subsidies, export incentive to any sector, export subsidy regime, foreign trade policy, global market, including textiles, India, per capita gross national income, phase out all export incentives, set to cross USD thousand, textile companies, three consecutive years, World Trade Organization rules bar

India may face the larger challenge of completely phasing out all export incentives with its per capita gross national income (GNI) set to cross $1,000 for three consecutive years, after which India may soon have to phase out its export subsidy regime in the current form as World Trade Organization (WTO) rules bar it from offering export incentives to any sector, including textiles, when it reaches certain thresholds that it is nearing. The deadline for ending direct subsidies to textile companies is December 2018.

Related Keywords: BTMA, Dhaka international textile and garment machinery exhibition, difficult to remain competitive, four day mega expo, global market, government is going to establish a LNG terminal in Kutubdia Island, increase the production cost, manufacturing units, set to kick off, supply imported gas, Textile Industry, textile machinery

The four-day mega expo on textile machinery Dhaka International Textile and Garment Machinery Exhibition (DTG) 2017 is set to kick off at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in the city on Thursday.

Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA) President Tapan Chowdhury addressing a press conference on the upcoming DTG -2017 in the city on Sunday said that the government is going to establish a LNG terminal in Kutubdia Island to supply imported gas to the industry people as the country fears of finishing its natural gas stock in near future.

Related Keywords: AGTEK, attracted to Vietnam, challenges and risks, despends on imported raw material, global market, HCM City Association of Garment Textile Embroidery and Knitting, join hands, low labour cost, many foreign investors, Recent signing of FTAs, supply chain, transform fabric to garment, TUV SUD, value addition, Vietnamese companies

After the recent signing of FTA’s, many foreign investors have been attracted to Vietnam according to the chairman of the HCM City Association of Garment Textile Embroidery and Knitting. But the FTAs not only bring opportunities but also challenges and risks for Vietnamese companies.

Việtnam depends on imported raw materials from China, Korea and Taiwan, and the sector does not create much value addition in the supply chain since it merely does low value-added work such as cut-make-trim services to transform fabric into garments to export.

Related Keywords: demand for raw cotton gone up, end of June this year, forced leading buyers of Pakistan textile and commercial sector, global market, India, KCA, make contract for cotton bales, Shortfall in cotton production, Textile and spinning sector to bear load of imports, with traders in South Africa, with USA for prime cotton grade

The shortfall in cotton production 2015-16 season in the country has forced leading buyers of Pakistani textile and commercial sector to make import contracts for 300,000 cotton bales with traders in South Africa, India and with USA for prime cotton grade (PIMA) during May-June 15, 2016.

According to senior member of Karachi Cotton Association (KCA), exporter, importer and ginner Ghulam Rabbani, they expect to import more than 1.5 million bales of various qualities amounting to $24.3 billion till end this year.

Related Keywords: Bangladesh yarn maker, benefit from declining cotton prices worldwide, BTMA, exported millions worth of garments, global market, good supply of cotton at favourable prices, leading garment exporters, mainly knitwear items, Mondol Group, received ample work orders from international retailers, yarn market stable in last one year

The declining cotton prices worldwide have kept Bangladesh yarn market stable in the last one year. About a year ago, cotton was traded at nearly $1 a pound in the global market when yarn was sold for $3.3 to $3.4 a kg in Bangladesh.

Momin Mondol, managing director of Mondol Group, one of the leading garment exporters of Bangladesh said that the domestic yarn market is stable now as the cotton prices declined worldwide.

Related Keywords: conclusion of FTAs, excess production capacity, extend three percent incentive for yarn, five percent for fabrics seven percent for garments and made-ups, global market, M Senthil Kumar, market access policy required, newly elected chairman, SIMA, textile export declining, Textile Industry

The newly elected chairman M Senthil Kumar of Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA) at its 56th Annual General Meeting held yesterday, said that as the textile industry was equiped with excess production capacity it first and foremost urgently requires market access policy to have a level playing field in global markets.

Therefore, the government should expedite conclusion of Free Trade Agreements with China, EU, Australia, Canada and other countries and gain market access, he added.